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A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
Sophie Irwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Life in the Twentieth Century
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Light in the Window
Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Line to Kill
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Little History of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

A Little Piece of Ground
Elizabeth Laird

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

A Living Nightmare
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

A Long Game
Elizabeth McCracken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

A Long Time Coming
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Love Like the Sun
Riss M. Neilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Labor
Mary Fariba Afsari

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Labor Day
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1962

Laches
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 381

L.A. Confidential
James Ellroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Ladies in Hating
Alexandra Vasti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Lady Macbeth
Susan Fraser King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Lady of the Eternal City
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lady of the Lake
Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Lady Smoke
Laura Sebastian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

Lagoon
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lair of Dreams
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lakewood
Megan Giddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Landline
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Land Mines
Sheilah Vance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Land of Desire
William R. Leach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Land of Hope
Wilfred M. Mcclay

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | YA | Published in 2019

Land of Love and Drowning
Tiphanie Yanique

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Land of Love and Ruins
Oddný Eir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lanny
Max Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

Larry's Party
Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Las Madres
Esmeralda Santiago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lassie Come-Home
Eric Knight

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1940

Last Argument of Kings
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Last Call
Tim Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Last Christmas in Paris
Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Last Day
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Last Friends
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Last Girl Ghosted
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Last Kiss
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Last Man In Tower
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Last Man Standing
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Last Night in Brooklyn
Xochitl Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Last Night in Montreal
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Last of the Breed
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Last of the Menu Girls
Denise Chavez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Last Orders
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Last Rites
Ozzy Osbourne

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Last Sacrifice
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Last Summer on State Street
Toya Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lateral Thinking
Edward de Bono

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Laughing At My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Laughing Without An Accent
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Law Maker
Susie Tate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

L. A. Women
Ella Berman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Laxdaela Saga
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1245

Lay Bare the Heart
James Farmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Leadership
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Leadership Is an Art
Max De Pree

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Leadership without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Leading at a Higher Level
Ken Blanchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

League of Dragons
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Leah on the Offbeat
Becky Albertalli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Learning Curve
Rachel Spangler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Learning to Drive: A Novel
Mary Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
Conor Knighton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Leaving Home
Jan Michael

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Leaving Home
Mark Haddon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lee Miller: A Life
Carolyn Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Left on Tenth
Delia Ephron

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Legacy
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Legacy Of Ashes
Tim Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Lucasta Miller

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

Lend Me A Tenor
Ken Ludwig

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Leonardo's Shadow
Christopher Grey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Leon's Story
Leon Walter Tillage

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Le Petit Nicolas
René Goscinny

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966