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The Locked Door
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Locked Room
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Log From The Sea of Cortez
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
Mancur Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

The Log of the Ark
Geoffrey: Walker Kenneth and Boumphrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The London Merchant
George Lillo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The London Séance Society: A Novel
Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
Lauren James

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Lonely Hearts Book Club
Lucy Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Lonely Hearts Club
Elizabeth Eulberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Lonely Hearts Hotel
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lonely Londoners
Samuel Selvon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Lonesome Gods
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Lone Wolf
Louis Joseph Vance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long and Faraway Gone
Lou Berney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Long Call
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Long Cosmos (The Long Earth, #5)
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Long Drop
Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Longest Day
Cornelius Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Longest Journey
E.M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Longest Memory
Fred D'Aguiar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Longest Second
Bill S. Ballinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Long Flight Home
Alan Hlad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Long Game
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Long Game (Green Oak, #1)
Elena Armas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Long Goodbye
Patti Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Shaun Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Long Haul
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Finn Murphy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Long Haul (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #9)
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Long Home
William Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Sun Shuyun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Long Patrol
Brian Jacques, Allan Curless

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

The Long Secret (Harriet the Spy #2)
Louise Fitzhugh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Daisy Bates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Long Song
Andrea Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Long Take
Robin Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Long Tomorrow
Leigh Brackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Long Valley
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1938

The Long View
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Long Walk
Richard Bachman (Pseudonym)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Long War
Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Long Way Home
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Long Weekend
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Look of Love
Bella Andre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Loose Ends List
Carrie Firestone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lorax
Dr. Seuss

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1971

The Lord God Made Them All
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Lord of Opium
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien, Brian Sibley, Michael Bakewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lords of Discipline
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Loser
Thomas Bernhard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Losers Club
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Lost
Natasha Preston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)
Susan Wiggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
Michael P. Nichols

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Daniel Mendelsohn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Lost Book of the Grail
Charlie Lovett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses, #2)
Wesley Chu, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Lost Bookshop
Evie Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
Amanda M. Fairbanks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Lost Child: and Other Stories [Jan 30, 2005] Anand, Mulk Raj
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

The Lost City of Faar
D.J. MacHale

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Lost Colony
Eoin Colfer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Lost Daughter
Gill Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Lost Daughters of China
Karin Evans

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption
Jim Gorant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Lost Duke of Wyndham
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Lost Family
Jenna Blum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Holly Ringland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Lost & Found
Katrina Leno

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Lost Gate
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Lost Girl
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920