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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

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 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 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 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 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

Love & Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love in a Fallen City
Transl. Karen S. Kingsbury, Eileen Chang

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1943

Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Alicia Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

[love is more thicker than forget]
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Loveless
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Lovelight Farms
B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lovely One
Ketanji Brown Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Lovely War
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Love, Mom
Iliana Xander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love Poem
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Love Poem With Toast
Miller Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Love Redesigned
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Love, Ruby Lavender
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Love Song for Alex, 1979
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

(Love Song, With Two Goldfish)
Grace Chua

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Love That Dog
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lu
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lucky
Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Kirsten Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lullaby
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Lunch Money
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Lupita Manana
Patricia Beatty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Luster
Raven Leilani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lycidas
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1638

Lyddie
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

Maame
Jessica George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Macbeth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Mac Flecknoe
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1682

Machete Season
Jean Hatzfeld

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Machinal
Sophie Treadwell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mad Honey
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Madwoman
Chelsea Bieker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Maeve Fly
CJ Leede

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Magic Hour: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Magnolia Parks
Jessa Hastings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
Chanel Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Magyk
Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Mahabharata
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE