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L.A. Requiem (1999) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:C)

Lake Charles (2011) - Ed Lynskey (1956-)  (Grade:B)

The Last Alchemist : Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason () - Iain McCalman (1947-)  (Grade:A)

The Last Battle : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War (2001) - Ralph Wetterhahn ( -)  (Grade:A)

Last Chance to See (1990) - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - Mark Carwardine (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:B)

The Last Good Kiss (1978) - James Arthur Crumley (10/12/1939 -09/17/2008)  (Grade:A)

The Last Hurrah (1956) - Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968)  (Grade:A+)

The Last Jihad (2002) - Joel C. Rosenberg (-)  (Grade:A-)

Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (2009) - Darrell Griffin (-)  (Grade:A)

The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) - Barbara Cleverly (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Last King of Scotland (1998) - Giles Foden (1967 -)  (Grade:B)

The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness (2004) - Buster Olney (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Last River : The Tragic Race for Shangri-La (2000) - Todd Balf (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1960) - Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957)  (Grade:C+)

Last Train to Memphis : The Rise of Elvis Presley (1994) - Peter Guralnick ( -)  (Grade:A)

The Last Word (1997) - Thomas Nagel (07/04/1937 -)  (Grade:B)

Last Seen Wearing (1952) - Hillary Baldwin Waugh (6/22/20-12/08/08)  (Grade:A+)

The Late George Apley: a Novel in the Form of a Memoir (1937) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960)  (Grade:B)

The Lathe of Heaven (1971) - Ursula K. Le Guin (10/21/1929 -1/22/2018)  (Grade:A)

Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010) - Anca Parvulescu (1976?-)  (Grade:B)

Laura (1942/43) - Vera Louise Casparay (11/13/1899-06/13/1987)  (Grade:B)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2000) - Alan Moore (-11/18/1953)  (Grade:B)

The Ledge (story) (1959) - Lawrence Sargent Hall (4/23/1915 -10/28/1993)  (Grade:A)

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) - Tim LaHaye (-) - Jerry B. Jenkins (-)  (Grade:C+)

Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot (1974) - Erik Maria von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (07/31/1909-05/26/1999)  (Grade:A)

The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:C)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) - Washington Irving (4/03/1783 -11/28/1859)  (Grade:A)

Leiningen Versus the Ants (story) (1938) - Carl Stephenson (11/03/1893-12/31/1983)  (Grade:B)

Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993) - David Remnick (1958-)  (Grade:A+)

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896 -07/23/1957)  (Grade:B+)

Les Miserables (1862) - Victor Hugo (2/26/1802 -5/22/1885)  (Grade:A)

A Lesson Before Dying (1993) - Ernest J. Gaines (1933-)  (Grade:A)

The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again (2002) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955 -)  (Grade:C-)

Let it Bleed (1996) - Ian Rankin (1960 -) (Grade:A+)

The Letter of Marque (Book 12) (1988) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A+)

Letter to a Man in the Fire : Does God Exist and Does He Care? (1999) - Reynolds Price (1933-)  (Grade:A-)

Letters to a Young Conservative (The Art of Mentoring Series) (2002) - Dinesh D'Souza (1961-)  (Grade:B-)

Levels of the Game (1969) - John McPhee (3/08/1931 -)  (Grade:A)

The Lexus and the Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization (1999) - Thomas L. Friedman (1953-)  (Grade:C)

Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream (1997) - Jim Sleeper (-)  (Grade:B+)

Liberalism as a Way of Life (2024) - Alexander Lefebvre ( -)  (Grade:B)

Libertarianism vs. Conservatism () - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:C)

The Librarian (2004) - Larry Beinhart (-)  (Grade:C+)

Lies of Silence (1990) - Brian Moore (8/25/1921 -1/11/1999)  (Grade:A)

The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)  (Grade:A)

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001) - Theodore Dalrymple (10/11/1949 -)  (Grade:A)

Life of Johnson (1791) - James Boswell (10/29/1740 -05/19/1795)  (Grade:A+)

Life of Pi: A Novel (2001) - Yann Martel (1963-)  (Grade:A)

A Life Without Consequences (2001) - Stephen Elliott (1971-)  (Grade:C)

Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water (2000) - Philip Ball ( -)  (Grade:B+)

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (1998) - Lani Guinier (-)  (Grade:D+)

Light (2002) - M. John Harrison (07/26/1945 -)  (Grade:B)

Light in August (1932) - William Faulkner (09/25/1897 -07/06/1962)  (Grade:B-)

The Light in the Forest (1953) - Conrad Richter (1890-1968)  (Grade:C)

Lightning Bird () - Lyall Watson (-) (Grade:A+)

Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (2005) - Greil Marcus (1945-) (Grade:B+)

The Lilies of the Field (1962) - William Edmund Barrett (1900-1986) (Grade:A+)

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (1992) - Garry Wills (5/22/1934 -) (Grade:C)

Lindbergh (1998) - A. Scott Berg (-) (Grade:A+)

The Line (2010) - Olga Grushin (1971-) (Grade:B)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A+)

Little bets : how breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries (2011) - Peter Sims (-)  (Grade:A)

Little Green Men (1999) - Christopher Buckley (1952-)  (Grade:A-)

The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-)  (Grade:B+)

A Little History of the World (1936) - Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (03/30/1909 -11/03/2001)  (Grade:A-)

The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (6/19/1900 -7/31/1944)  (Grade:B)

The Little Sleep (2009) - Paul G. Tremblay (06/30/1971-)  (Grade:C-)

A Little Life (2015) - Hanya K Yanagihara (09/20/1974 -)  (Grade:C)

The Little Match Girl (story) (1845) - Hans Christian Andersen (4/02/1805-8/04/1875)  (Grade:B)

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) - Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)  (Grade:C)

Lives of the Monster Dogs (1997) - Kirsten Bakis (-)  (Grade:B+)

Living It Up At National Review: A Memoir (2005) - Priscilla L. Buckley (-)  (Grade:A)

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (2005) - Jack El-Hai (12/01/1958 -)  (Grade:B-)

Lois & Clark : The New Adventures of Superman (2001) - Rick Geary (-)  (Grade:B-)

Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (4/22/1899 -7/02/1977)  (Grade:A)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) - Sherman Alexie (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) - Alan Sillitoe (1928-)  (Grade:C)

Lonesome Animals (2012) - Bruce Holbert (-)  (Grade:C)

The Long Night Of The Watchman: Essays 1977-1989 (2018) - Vaclav Benda (8/08/1946 -6/02/1999)  (Grade:A-)

The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit (2001) - A. J. Conyers (-)  (Grade:A)

The Long Walk : The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (1956) - Slavomir Rawicz (09/01/1915-04/05/2004) (Grade:A+)

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (1995) - Dava Sobel (-) (Grade:A-)

The Long Ships (1941/45) - Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (10/04/1894-12/19/1954)  (Grade:A+)

The Loo Sanction (1973) - Trevanian (6/12/1931 -12/14/2005)  (Grade:B)

Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America (2001) - Lynne Luciano (-)  (Grade:C)

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006) - Lawrence George Wright (08/02/1947 -)  (Grade:A+)

Lord Jim (1900) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:B)

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (9/19/1911 -6/19/1993)  (Grade:C)

The Lord of the Rings [The Hobbit (1937), The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King] (1948) - J.R.R. Tolkien (01/03/1892 -09/02/1973)  (Grade:A+)

The Lords of Navarre : A Basque Family Saga (2004) - José Maria Lacambra-Loizu (-)  (Grade:B)

Los Alamos : A Novel (1997) - Joseph Kanon (-)  (Grade:C)

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009) - David Grann (03/10/1967 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Lost Daughter of Happiness : A Novel (2001) - Geling Yan (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (1974) - Heinrich Boll (1917-1985)  (Grade:C+)

Lost Horizon (1933) - James Hilton (9/09/1900 -12/20/1954)  (Grade:A)

The Lost Weekend (1944) - Charles Jackson (1902-1968)  (Grade:A)

Lost: Secret Identity (2006) - Cathy Hapka (-)  (Grade:C)

The Lost Gardens of Heligan (1996) - Tim Smit (09/25/1954-)  (Grade:B-)

The Lottery (1948) - Shirley Jackson (12/14/1916 -8/08/1965)  (Grade:A)

Love Always (1985) - Ann Beattie (9/08/1947 -)  (Grade:A)

The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff (2010) - Joseph Epstein (01/09/1937 -)  (Grade:A)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:A-)

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002) - Ashley Kahn (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:A)

The Lover (1984) - Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)  (Grade:F)

Loving (1945) - Henry Green (10/29/1905 -12/13/1973)  (Grade:D)

Loving Soren (2005) - Caroline Coleman O'Neill (-) (Grade:A+)