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Listen for the Lie
Amy Tintera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Listen, Slowly
Thanhha Lai

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Litany
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Little Beast
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Little Bee
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Little Brother
Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1932

Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1932

Little Liar
Leigh Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1886

Little Man, What Now?
Hans Fallada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Little Men
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1871

Little Monsters
Adrienne Brodeur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Little Rot
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Little Secrets
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Little Stranger
Leigh Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1868

Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1971

Lives of the Saints
Nino Ricci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lives On The Boundary
Mike Rose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Sandra Steingraber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Living in Sin
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1954

Living Up The Street
Gary Soto

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | YA | Published in 1985

Lizzie Bright And The Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lock Every Door: A Novel
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Lola in the Mirror
Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

London
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

London, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1738

London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

Lonesome Dove
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Patrick Robinson, Marcus Luttrell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Lone Women
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Longbourn
Jo Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Long Bright River
Liz Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Long Division
Kiese Laymon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Long Island
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Long Shot
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Long Time Gone
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2017

Look Back in Anger
John Osborne

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Look Closer
David Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

Looking for Alaska
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Looking for Jane
Heather Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Looking For Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Susan Gregg Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
John Elder Robison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1887

Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Lore
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Lore Olympus: Volume One
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
Susan Morrison

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Loser
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along The Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya V. Hartman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Losing Hope
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lost and Found
Anne Schraff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Lost and Lassoed
Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Lost Horizon
James Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Lost In The Barrens
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Lost in the Pacific 1942
Tod Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Lost Roses: A Novel
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lot's Wife
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Lotus
Jennifer Hartmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
Sherri Winston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Loud Music
Stephen Dobyns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Love After Love
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and The Start of a New Nation
David A. Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Love: A Novel
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Love at First Sight
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Love for Love
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1695

Love From A to Z
S. K. Ali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018