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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Lather and Nothing Else
Hernando Téllez

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1950

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Mariko Tamaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2019

Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Layla
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands
Susan Carol McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Lazarillo De Tormes
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1554

Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
Simon Sinek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Wess Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Leadership Strategy And Tactics
Jocko Willink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Stacey Abrams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Leading Change
John P. Kotter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Leaf by Niggle
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

Leaf Storm
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1955

League of Denial
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg, Nell Scovell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Martin E. P. Seligman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Learning to Read
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 1872

Leather & Lark
Brynne Weaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1855

Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Leaving Atlanta
Tayari Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Leaving Time
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1670

Le Cid
Pierre Corneille

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Left for Dead
Pete Nelson

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2002

Left Neglected
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculée Ilibagiza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Legacy
James Kerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Legal Alien
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Legend
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Legendary
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Legendborn
Tracy Deonn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

Leiningen Versus the Ants
Carl Stephenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

Le Lai de Lanval
Marie De France

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Lemons
Melissa Savage

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Leonard and Hungry Paul
Ronan Hession

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Leonard (My Life as a Cat)
Carlie Sorosiak

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1835

Leroy Ninker Saddles Up
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Les Belles Soeurs
Michel Tremblay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

Les Misérables
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Less
Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Less Is Lost
Andrew Sean Greer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lessons
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
Philip Paul Hallie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1936

Let Evening Come
Jane Kenyon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Let Me Hear a Rhyme
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Let's Call Her Barbie
Renée Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Letter From Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

Letters From An American Farmer
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1782

Letters from a Stoic
Seneca

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult

Letters from Cuba
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Letters from Rifka
Karen Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1929

Letters to a Young Scientist
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Letters to a Young Teacher
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Yossi Klein Halevi

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2018

Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now
Matthew Olzmann

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1615

Let The Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Level 13
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1651

Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Liar, Liar
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Liars: A Novel
Sarah Manguso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Liar & Spy
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Liberation Day: Stories
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

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