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Leviathan

Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Libra

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Library of Souls

Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

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 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 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 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 and Thread

Han Kang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lightning Strike

William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Light on Snow

Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

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

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, 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 One

Olivia Muenter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Little Red Riding Hood

Trina Schart Hyman

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

Little Scarlet

Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Little Town on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Live by Night: A Novel

Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Live No Lies

John Mark Comer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Lives Other Than My Own

Emmanuel Carrère

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Living and Dying in Brick City

Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Living Untethered

Michael A. Singer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Living with Our Genes

Peter Copeland, Dean Hamer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Liza of Lambeth

W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Loaves and Fishes

Dorothy Day

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1936

Lobby Hero

Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Local Girls

Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Lockdown

Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Locked in Time

Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Logicomix

Apostolos Doxiadis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2009

London Bridges

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

London Falling

Patrick Radden Keefe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

London Fields

Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Londonstani

Gautam Malkani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lone Wolf

Kristine L. Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Long After We Are Gone

Terah Shelton Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Longitudes and Attitudes

Thomas Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Long Road to Mercy

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Long Shadows

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Long Way Gone

Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Look Again

Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Looking for a Ship

John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Looking for Transwonderland

Noo Saro-Wiwa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Loon Lake

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967