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A Land More Kind than Home
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Lie Of The Mind
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

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 Living Nightmare
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Lady Macbeth
Susan Fraser King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

Lair of Dreams
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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 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

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 Friends
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

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 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 Sacrifice
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

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 without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Leaf Storm
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1955

League of Dragons
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Learning Curve
Rachel Spangler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Learning to Drive: A Novel
Mary Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1855

Leaving Home
Jan Michael

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lee Miller: A Life
Carolyn Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

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 Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

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

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

Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2015

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

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 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

Life
Keith Richards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

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 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
Joseph Gies, Frances Gies

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Life Is so Good
Richard Glaubman, George Dawson

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 the Outside
Jennifer Gonnerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 from Other Stars
Erika Swyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 No Other
Una Lamarche

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Like Sisters on the Homefront
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Lila
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014