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A Land More Kind than Home
Wiley Cash

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Lie Of The Mind
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Life in the Twentieth Century
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Living Nightmare
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Long Way from Chicago
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Lady Macbeth
Susan Fraser King

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult

Lair of Dreams
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA

Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Landline
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Land Mines
Sheilah Vance

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Land of Desire
William R. Leach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Land of Love and Drowning
Tiphanie Yanique

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Land of Love and Ruins
Oddný Eir

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Landscape with Invisible Hand
M. T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lanny
Max Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult

La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Larry's Party
Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Call
Tim Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Last Friends
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Kiss
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Man In Tower
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Man Standing
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last of the Breed
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last of the Menu Girls
Denise Chavez

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Orders
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Last Sacrifice
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA

Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Laughing At My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Laughing Without An Accent
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Laxdaela Saga
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Lay Bare the Heart
James Farmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Leadership
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Leadership without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Leaf Storm
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

League of Dragons
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Learning Curve
Rachel Spangler

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Learning to Drive: A Novel
Mary Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult

Leaving Home
Jan Michael

Fiction | Novel | YA

Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lee Miller: A Life
Carolyn Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Left Behind
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Legacy Of Ashes
Tim Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Lucasta Miller

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lend Me A Tenor
Ken Ludwig

Fiction | Play | Adult

Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Leonardo's Shadow
Christopher Grey

Fiction | Novel | YA

Leon's Story
Leon Walter Tillage

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade

Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Le Petit Nicolas
René Goscinny

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade

Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Let Me Die In His Footsteps
Lori Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Let Me Hear Your Voice
Catherine Maurice

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Letters from Vietnam: Voices of War
Bill Adler, ed.

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult

Letters to a Young Catholic
George Weigel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Letters to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult

Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Let The Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Libra
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA

Lie Down with Lions
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Lies of Silence
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Lies We Tell Ourselves
Robin Talley

Fiction | Novel | YA

Life
Keith Richards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Life After Life
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Life and Death in the Third Reich
Peter Fritzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Life, Animated
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Life As We Know It
Michael Bérubé

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Life in a Medieval City
Frances Gies, Joseph Gies

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Life is Elsewhere
Milan Kundera

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Life Is so Good
George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Life Itself
Francis Crick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult

Life on the Outside
Jennifer Gonnerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult