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Kane and Abel
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Karl Marx
Francis Wheen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Katalin Street
Magda Szabó

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Keeping Corner
Kashmira Sheth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Keeping Faith
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Keeping the Castle
Patrice Kindl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Keeping the Moon
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Keeping You A Secret
Julie Anne Peters

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Ketchup Clouds
Annabel Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Keturah and Lord Death
Martine Leavitt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Khirbet Khizeh
S. Yizhar

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1949

Kierkegaard: A Single Life
Stephen Backhouse

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Killer of Enemies
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Killer Pizza
Greg Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Kill Hole
Jamake Highwater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Killing Jodie
Janet Fife-Yeomans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Killing The Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

King John
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

King of Shadows
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

King Of The Mild Frontier
Chris Crutcher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

King of the Screwups
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

King of the World
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

King Rat
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

King Solomon’s Mines
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Kiss Me First
Lottie Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Kiss Number 8
Colleen AF Venable

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2019

Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Kit's Wilderness
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Knucklehead
Jon Scieszka

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Kobe Bryant
Jeff Savage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Lady Macbeth
Susan Fraser King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Lady Oracle
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

Lair of Dreams
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Lake Wobegon Days
Garrison Keillor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Landline
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Land Mines
Sheilah Vance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Land of Desire
William R. Leach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Land of Love and Drowning
Tiphanie Yanique

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Land of Love and Ruins
Oddný Eir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Lanny
Max Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1884

Larry's Party
Carol Shields

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Last Call
Tim Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Last Chance to See
Mark Carwardine, Douglas Adams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Last Friends
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Last Kiss
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Last Man In Tower
Aravind Adiga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Last Man Standing
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Last of the Breed
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Last of the Menu Girls
Denise Chavez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Last Orders
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Last Sacrifice
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Laughing At My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Oliver La Farge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Laughing Without An Accent
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Laxdaela Saga
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1245

Lay Bare the Heart
James Farmer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Leadership
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

Leadership without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Leaf Storm
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1955

League of Dragons
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Learning Curve
Rachel Spangler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Learning to Drive: A Novel
Mary Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1855

Leaving Home
Jan Michael

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Lee Miller: A Life
Carolyn Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Legacy Of Ashes
Tim Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

Lend Me A Tenor
Ken Ludwig

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Leonardo's Shadow
Christopher Grey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Leon's Story
Leon Walter Tillage

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Le Petit Nicolas
René Goscinny

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

Les Belles Images
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Let Me Die In His Footsteps
Lori Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Let Me Hear Your Voice
Catherine Maurice

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

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

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1968

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1914

Letters to a Young Catholic
George Weigel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Letters to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1774

Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2015

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Libra
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015