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Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Lethal White
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Let Me Die In His Footsteps
Lori Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Let Me Hear Your Voice
Catherine Maurice

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Letters from Vietnam: Voices of War
Bill Adler, ed.

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1968

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1914

Letters to a Young Catholic
George Weigel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Letters to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1774

Letters to the Lost
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Letter to His Father
Franz Kafka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2015

Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender
David R. Hawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Leviathan
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Leviathan Falls
James S.A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Liar
Tate James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Liar's Dice
Juliet Faithfull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Libra
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Lick
Kylie Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lie Down with Lions
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Lies
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Lies of My Monster
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lies of Silence
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lies We Tell Ourselves
Robin Talley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Lie With Me
Philippe Besson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Life
Keith Richards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Life
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Life After Death
Sister Souljah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death
Raymond A. Moody Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

Life and Death in the Third Reich
Peter Fritzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Life, Animated
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Life As We Know It
Michael Bérubé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Life in a Medieval City
Frances Gies, Joseph Gies

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Bruce Feiler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Life Is so Good
George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Life Itself
Francis Crick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Life on a Little-Known Planet
Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2025

Life on the Outside
Jennifer Gonnerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Lifescale
Brian Solis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Life Under Water
Maura Dooley

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1992

Light
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Light and Thread
Han Kang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Lightbreakers
Aja Gabel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Light from Other Stars
Erika Swyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lightning
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Lightning Strike
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Light on Snow
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Light Years
James Salter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Like a House on Fire
Cate Kennedy

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2012

Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Like No Other
Una Lamarche

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Like Sisters on the Homefront
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Lilith
Nikki Marmery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lily and the Octopus
Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Lily's Crossing
Patricia Reilly Giff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Lincoln
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1987

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America
Garry Wills

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Linger
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Lion: A Long Way Home (young Readers' Edition)
Saroo Brierley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Lion King
Don Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1994

Lion & Lamb
Duane Swierczynski, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lions and Scavengers: The True Story of America
Ben Shapiro

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Lions at Lunchtime
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Lipstick Jihad
Azadeh Moaveni

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Lispeth
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1889

Listen
Sacha Bronwasser, Transl. David Colmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Listen!
Stephanie S. Tolan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Listening Is an Act of Love
Dave Isay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution
Amy Coney Barrett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Listen to the Moon
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Lit
Mary Karr

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Literary Theory: An Introduction
Terry Eagleton

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Little Beach Street Bakery
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Little, Big
John Crowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Little Big Man
Thomas Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Little Failure
Gary Shteyngart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Little Fish
Casey Plett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Little Gods
Meng Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Little Heathens
Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Little Men
Gerald Shapiro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1871

Little Red Riding Hood
Trina Schart Hyman

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1983