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Lives Other Than My Own
Emmanuel Carrère

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Live to Tell
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Live Wire
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, #10)
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Livid
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Living Alone
Stella Benson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Living and Dying in Brick City
Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Living Buddha, Living Christ
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Living Dead in Dallas
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Living Faith
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Living to Tell the Tale
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

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 1992

Lizzie Bright And The Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Lizzie Zipmouth
Jacqueline Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

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

Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lock Every Door: A Novel
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lock In
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Lock No. 1 (Maigret, #18)
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Locksley Hall
Alfred Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Locus Solus
Raymond Roussel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Lodestar
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

L’œil du loup
Daniel Pennac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Logan's Run
William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Logicomix
Apostolos Doxiadis

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

Loki's Wolves (The Blackwell Pages, #1)
K.L. Armstrong, M.A. Marr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Lola and the Boy Next Door
Stephanie Perkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Lola Bensky
Lily Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lola in the Mirror
Trent Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

London
Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10)
James Patterson, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

London Fields
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

Londonstani
Gautam Malkani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Lonesome Dove
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lonesome Traveler
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

Lone Stars
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Lone Wolf
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Lone Women
Victor Lavalle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Longbourn
Jo Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Long Bright River
Liz Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Long Distance Life
Marita Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Long Division
Kiese Laymon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Long Hard Ride
Lorelei James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Longitudes and Attitudes
Thomas Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Long Live the Post Horn!
Vigdis Hjorth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Long Lost
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Long Lost (Kate Burkholder, #4.5)
Linda Castillo

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Long Lost (Myron Bolitar, #9)
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Long Range
C.J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Long Road Home
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine, #1)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Long Shadows
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Long Shot (Comeback Kids)
Kennedy Ryan, Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Long Shot (Hoops, #1)
Kennedy Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Long Story Short
Serena Kaylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Long Time Gone
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2017

Long Way Gone
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Long Way Home
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Look Again
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Look Alive Twenty-Five
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Look Back
Tatsuki Fujimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Look Back in Anger
John Osborne

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Look Closer
David Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Look For Me
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself
Luke Russert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

Looking for Alaska
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Looking for Alibrandi
Melina Marchetta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992