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The Life We Bury
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty
Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

The Lifted Veil
George Eliot

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1859

The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Light in Hidden Places
Sharon Cameron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Light We Lost
Jill Santopolo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Likeness
Tana French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Francisco Cantú

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lines We Cross
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Line Tender
Kate Allen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Lion and the Jewel
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

The Lioness of Boston
Emily Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Lion of Mars
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lions Of Little Rock
Kristin Levine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1950

The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Lisbon Earthquake
Voltaire

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1756

The List
Patricia Forde

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The List: A Novel
Yomi Adegoke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The List of Things That Will Not Change
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Little Boy Found
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

The Little Friend
Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Little Glass Slipper
Charles Perrault

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1697

The Little Liar
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George, Transl. Simon Pare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1943

The Littles
John Peterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Lives of Animals
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1999

The Living
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Location of Culture
Homi K. Bhabha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Lock Artist
Steve Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Locked Door
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The London Séance Society: A Novel
Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Lonely Hearts Book Club
Lucy Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Long Call
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Longest Ride
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

The Long Walk
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Long Way Home
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1940

The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Lords of Discipline
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Losers Club
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost Baby Poem
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Lost Bookshop
Evie Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Holly Ringland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
Ellen Marie Wiseman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Lost Library
Wendy Mass, Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Lost Man
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Lost Story: A Novel
Meg Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost World
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
Katherine Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Lottery
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

The Lottery Rose
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1948

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
Lynda Cohen Loigman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Love of My Afterlife
Kirsty Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Love of My Life
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy
John Gottman, Julie Gottman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Lover
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Lovers of the Poor
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Love Wager
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Luck of Roaring Camp
Bret Harte

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1868

The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lying Game
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lynching
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

The Madness of Crowds
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Madonnas of Echo Park
Brando Skyhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010