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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: 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 King
Don Ferguson

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

Lipstick Jihad
Azadeh Moaveni

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Lisey's Story
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lispeth
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1889

Listening Is an Act of Love
Dave Isay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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

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

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 with Our Genes
Peter Copeland, Dean Hamer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Londonstani
Gautam Malkani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lone Wolf
Kristine L. Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Longitudes and Attitudes
Thomas Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Look Again
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

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 Misrule
Jaimy Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Iain Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Losers Take All
David Klass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Losing Battles
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Losing My Cool
Thomas Chatterton Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Lost City Radio
Daniel Alarcon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lost in the City
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

Lost in the Cosmos
Walker Percy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Lost in the Forest
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Lost in the War
Nancy Antle

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Lost in Translation
Nicole Mones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Lo Terciario / The Tertiary
Raquel Salas Rivera

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Love and Other Consolation Prizes
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Love Anthony
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
David Rakoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lovely, Dark, and Deep
Amy McNamara

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Love of Country: A Journey through the Hebrides
Madeleine Bunting

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Love on the Dotted Line
David E. Talbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Loverboy
Victoria Redel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Lovers Leap
J.L. Merrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Love Story
Erich Segal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Love You Forever
Robert Munsch

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1986

Loving
Henry Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Loving Day
Mat Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lowboy
John Wray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Lucky
Alice Sebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Lucky Boy
Shanthi Sekaran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Lucky's Plott
Libby Bagby

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Lucy Gayheart
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Lust for Life
Irving Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Lying Awake
Mark Salzman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Armand Marie Leroi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Land
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

The Land of Green Plums
Herta Müller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Land of Little Rain
Mary Hunter Austin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1903

The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Last
Hanna Jameson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Last American Man
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

The Last Apprentice
Joseph Delaney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Last Ballad
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Last Boy and Girl in the World
Siobhan Vivian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Last Castle
Denise Kiernan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

The Last Child
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Last Crossing
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Last Days of California
Mary Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
Laura Shovan

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Last Good War
Thomas Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Last Juror
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Last Mile
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Last Mission
Harry Mazer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Last of the Just
André Schwarz-Bart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Last of the Wine
Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956