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Life Out of Order
Audrey Niffenegger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Lifescale
Brian Solis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David Sinclair

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Lighter
Yung Pueblo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Lincoln
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Lincoln
David Herbert Donald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

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 for Lions
Gloria Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

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 Monsters
Kara Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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

Little White Lies
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Live and Let Die
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Live by Night: A Novel
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Live Laugh Love
Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Live No Lies
John Mark Comer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Lives of Bitter Rain
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Dead in Dallas
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Lock In
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lodestar
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Logicomix
Apostolos Doxiadis

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

Loki
Mackenzi Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Lola
Karla Arenas Valenti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

London Bridges
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

London Fields
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

London Rules
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Live Evil
Sarah Rees Brennan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Long Lost
Jacqueline West

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

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 at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Looking Back
Lois Lowry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

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