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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

Leading With Cultural Intelligence

David Livermore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

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

Lectures on the Philosophy of History

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1831

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

Lethal Passage

Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

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 Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Lexicon

Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Liar

Tate James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Liar's Dice

Juliet Faithfull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Liar's Kingdom

Andrew Weissmann

Nonfiction | Book | 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 My Teacher Told Me (young Readers Edition)

James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2019

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 to Me

J.T. Ellison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lie With Me

Philippe Besson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Life

Keith Richards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Force

Tony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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 of M

Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Life Out of Order

Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026