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Living in Sin
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1954

Living Up The Street
Gary Soto

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | YA | Published in 1985

Lizzie Bright And The Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lock Every Door: A Novel
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson

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

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

London
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

London, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal
Samuel Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1738

London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1851

Lonesome Dove
Larry Mcmurtry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

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 Division
Kiese Laymon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Long Island
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

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

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 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 Jane
Heather Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s
John Elder Robison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1887

Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1900

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Lore
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Lore Olympus: Volume One
Rachel Smythe

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Lorna Doone
R. D. Blackmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Loser
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along The Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya V. Hartman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Losing Hope
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Lost Horizon
James Hilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Lost In The Barrens
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Lost in the Pacific 1942
Tod Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Lost Roses: A Novel
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Lot's Wife
Anthony Hecht

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Loud Music
Stephen Dobyns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Love After Love
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and The Start of a New Nation
David A. Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Love: A Novel
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Love at First Sight
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Bob Goff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Love for Love
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1695

Love From A to Z
S. K. Ali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love & Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love in a Fallen City
Eileen Chang, Transl. Karen S. Kingsbury

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1943

Love in Excess
Eliza Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1719

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Loveless
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Lovelight Farms
B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lovely War
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love Poem
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Love Poem With Toast
Miller Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Love Redesigned
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Love, Ruby Lavender
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Love Song for Alex, 1979
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Love That Dog
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lu
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lucky
Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Kirsten Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lullaby
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Lunch Money
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Lupita Manana
Patricia Beatty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Luster
Raven Leilani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lycidas
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1638

Lyddie
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Labors of Hercules Beal
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023