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Less Than One
Less Than One is a 1986 essay collection by the Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky, his first book of prose, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Less than Zero (novel)
Less than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis's 1985 debut novel (Simon & Schuster), follows Clay, a college freshman home in Los Angeles, drifting through drugs, parties, and moral emptiness among wealthy youth; basis of the 1987 film.
Lessons in Chemistry (novel)
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus's 2022 Doubleday debut novel about chemist Elizabeth Zott, who becomes host of the 1960s cooking show Supper at Six; 6-million-copy bestseller adapted into the Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson.
Lestat de Lioncourt
Lestat de Lioncourt, the Vampire Lestat, is Anne Rice's fictional French aristocrat vampire, central figure of The Vampire Chronicles (1976-2018), bisexual antihero, born November 7, 1760 in the Auvergne, portrayed by Tom Cruise, Stuart Townsend, and Sam Reid.
Let Me Speak!
Let Me Speak! (Si me permiten hablar) is a testimonial book by Bolivian labor leader Domitila Barrios de Chungara about life in Bolivia's tin mining camps.
Let the Right One In (novel)
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) is John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2004 debut vampire horror novel, set in 1981 Blackeberg, Sweden, about bullied Oskar and vampire Eli; adapted into 2008 and 2010 films and a Showtime series.
Let This Grieving Soul Retire!
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! (嘆きの亡霊は引退したい) is a Japanese light novel series by Tsukikage and Chiko, begun as a 2018 web novel, about talentless hunter Krai Andrich who wants to retire; it has 14 novel volumes, a manga, and a two-cour 2024–2025 TV anime.
Let's Talk About It (book)
Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human is a 2021 nonfiction sex-education graphic novel by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan (Random House Graphic, 240 pages), a YALSA Top Ten pick and one of the ALA's most challenged books of 2023.
Lethal White
Lethal White is the fourth Cormoran Strike crime novel by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling), published 18 September 2018 by Sphere; set in London during the 2012 Olympics, it follows a blackmail case and a childhood murder memory, adapted for BBC One in 2020.
Leto II Atreides
Leto II Atreides, the Tyrant or God Emperor, is Frank Herbert's Dune character, twin son of Paul and Chani, who merges with sandtrout, rules 3,500 years on the Golden Path, and dies by engineered assassination.
Letter to Gogol
Letter to Gogol (Письмо к Гоголю) is an open letter written by critic Vissarion Belinsky to Nikolai Gogol in 1847, attacking his defense of serfdom and autocracy.
Letter to Ren An
The Letter to Ren An (报任安书), or Letter in Reply to Ren Shaoqing, is a famous letter by Han historian Sima Qian explaining why he endured castration to finish the Shiji.
Letters
The Letters of Madame de Sévigné are the correspondence of the marquise de Sévigné (1626–1696), more than 1,000 letters chiefly to her daughter, written from 1655 to 1696.
Letters from My Windmill
Letters from My Windmill, or Lettres de mon moulin, is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet, framed as letters from a windmill in Provence, first published in 1869.
Letters from Norway
Letters from Norway (Pisma iz Norveške, Писма из Норвешке) is a 1914 travelogue by the Serbian writer Isidora Sekulić, drawn from her 1912 journey from Oslo to Finnmark.
Letters of a Javanese Princess
Letters of a Javanese Princess is the English translation of letters by Raden Adjeng Kartini, a Javanese advocate for women's education in the Dutch East Indies.
Letters of a Russian Traveler
Letters of a Russian Traveler (Письма русского путешественника) is a semi-fictional travelogue by Nikolai Karamzin, published in 1791–1792 and based on his 1789–1790 journey through Europe.
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are a twelfth-century Latin correspondence between philosopher Peter Abelard and Heloise, abbess of the Paraclete, best known as documents of early romantic love.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
The Letters of Anton Chekhov (Письма А. П. Чехова) are the surviving correspondence of the Russian writer, about 4,400 letters written from 1875 to 1904.
Letters of Grigor Magistros
The Letters of Grigor Magistros (Armenian: Tʿłtʿer) are a collection of about 88 Classical Armenian letters by Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni, an eleventh-century Armenian prince and Byzantine official.
Letters of Kemal-ud-Dowleh
Letters of Kemal-ud-Dowleh (Kəmalüddövlə məktubları) is a philosophical and artistic work by the Azerbaijani writer Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, written in 1865, addressing religion and despotic rule in Iran.
Letters on the Good and the Beautiful
Letters on the Good and the Beautiful (Письма о добром и прекрасном) is a 1985 book of moral essays by Russian scholar Dmitry Likhachev, written as letters to young readers.
Letters to Atticus
Letters to Atticus, or Epistulae ad Atticum, is the largest surviving collection of Cicero's correspondence, written to his close friend Atticus until Cicero's death in 43 BC.
Letters to Martha
Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison is a 1968 poetry collection by Dennis Brutus, written during and after his imprisonment on Robben Island under apartheid.
Letters to Olga
Letters to Olga (Dopisy Olze) is a book by Václav Havel collecting the letters he wrote to his wife from Czechoslovak prison between 1979 and 1982.
Leucippe and Clitophon
Leucippe and Clitophon (Τὰ κατὰ Λευκίππην καὶ Κλειτοφῶντα) is an ancient Greek novel in eight books by Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, circulating by the mid-2nd century CE.
Leyendas mexicanas
Leyendas mexicanas is an 1862 book of narrative verse by the Mexican writer, journalist, and historian José María Roa Bárcena, published in Mexico City, collecting legendary tales, northern European ballads, and miscellaneous poems.
Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner, Al Capp's satirical American comic strip (1934–1977), set in Dogpatch, featuring Abner Yokum, Daisy Mae, Sadie Hawkins Day, and the Shmoo, adapted to Broadway and film.
Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right
Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right (Chanto Suenai Kyuuketsuki-chan) is a Kyosuke Nishiki comedy manga serialized in Monthly Dragon Age 2021-2025, nine volumes, about vampire Luna Ishikawa who cannot suck blood; adapted into a 12-episode feel. anime airing October-December 2025.
Liangdu Fu
Liangdu Fu (两都赋, "Rhapsody on the Two Capitals") is a pair of rhapsodies by Ban Gu defending Luoyang over Chang'an as capital, opening the capital fu genre.