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Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Maya Jasanoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Lies and Weddings
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lies He Told Me
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lieutenant Nun
Catalina de Erauso

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Life
Naomi Long Madgett

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Life After Life
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1881

Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Lifeboat 12
Susan Hood

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Jack Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Misty Copeland

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

Life In The Iron Mills
Rebecca Harding Davis

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1861

Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Life of Black Hawk
Black Hawk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1833

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Gregory Howard Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1883

Life's Too Short
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

Ligeia
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1838

Light Bringer
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Light in August
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Lightlark
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Light Shining Out of Darkness
William Cowper

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

Lights Out
Navessa Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Like a Winding Sheet
Ann Petry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1946

Like Mother, Like Daughter
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Like Mother, Like Mother
Susan Rieger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Likes
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Lilac Girls
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
Kathleen Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lily and Dunkin
Donna Gephart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
Jim Kwik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Donald T. Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Lincoln's Grave Robbers
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1865

Linden Hills
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ...
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Lines of Courage
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Linked
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

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
Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

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 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