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Liangshu
Liangshu (梁书, Book of Liang) is a Chinese dynastic history of the Southern Liang dynasty, completed by Yao Cha and Yao Silian in 636 under the Tang.
Liangzhou Song
The Liangzhou Song, also Liangzhou Ci or Chusai, is a pair of seven-character quatrains by Tang poet Wang Zhihuan, whose famous first poem laments frontier soldiers at Yumen Pass.
Liar Game (ライアーゲーム)
Liar Game (ライアーゲーム), also known as LIAR GAME, is a psychological suspense manga by Shinobu Kaitani serialized in Weekly Young Jump 2005–2015 in 19 volumes, following honest student Nao Kanzaki and swindler Shinichi Akiyama in a money-swindling tournament, with drama, films, a 2014 Korean remake, and a 2026 Madhouse TV anime.
Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker: Michael Lewis's 1989 nonfiction book about bond selling at Salomon Brothers, named for the dollar-bill serial-number bluffing game; also studied as an AI benchmark.
Liber Medicinalis
Liber Medicinalis, also known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima, is a Latin didactic poem of about 1,100 hexameters offering remedies for ailments, attributed to Quintus Serenus.
Libertad bajo palabra
Libertad bajo palabra is a book by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz that gathers his poetry from 1935 to 1957 and closes with the long poem Piedra de sol.
Libertatia
Libertatia, also spelled Libertalia, is a legendary pirate colony said to have been founded in Madagascar in the late seventeenth century by Captain James Misson and generally considered fictional.
Libertinagem
Libertinagem is a 1930 book of poems by Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira, his fourth collection and first entirely modernist, gathering 38 poems in free verse and colloquial language.
Libertine novel
The libertine novel is a genre of French fiction, centered on the eighteenth century, whose erotic fiction embodies Enlightenment free thought, spanning Crébillon fils to Sade and Laclos's Liaisons dangereuses.
Libra (novel)
Libra, Don DeLillo's 1988 Viking novel (his ninth), intertwines Lee Harvey Oswald's life and the JFK assassination with a fictional CIA plot; also known for the Nicholas Branch frame narrative and the 'latent history' debate with the Warren Report.
Library of Souls
Library of Souls (2015) is the third novel in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, published by Quirk Books. Jacob Portman enters Devil's Acre and the soul-jar repository called the Library of Souls, or Abaton, to rescue captured ymbrynes from Caul.
Libris Literatuur Prijs
The Libris Literatuur Prijs is an annual Dutch literary prize, one of the principal awards in the Dutch-language area, given for the best original novel of the previous year.
Libro de Alexandre
The Libro de Alexandre is an anonymous thirteenth-century Castilian epic poem narrating the fictionalized life and conquests of Alexander the Great, and the first work of the mester de clerecía school.
Libro del caballero Zifar
The Libro del caballero Zifar, also transmitted as the Libro del Caballero de Dios, is a Castilian prose romance about the knight Zifar, who becomes king of Mentón.
Libros de caballerías
Libros de caballerías, or books of chivalry, are long Spanish prose fictions of wandering knights that flourished in print from the late 1400s to the early 1600s.
Lição de Coisas
Lição de coisas is a 1962 book of poems by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, his fullest experiment with form under the provocations of Concretismo.
Lider fun geto
Lider fun geto (לידער פון געטאָ; Poems of the Ghetto) is a 1946 Yiddish poetry collection by Abraham Sutzkever, gathering poems written in the Vilna Ghetto under German occupation.
Lieguo Zhi Zhuan
Lieguo Zhi Zhuan (列國志傳, Chronicle of the States, Transmitted) is a Chinese historical novel by the Ming dynasty writer Yu Shaoyu narrating six centuries of Zhou dynasty history.
Lies of P
Lies of P (P의 거짓) is a 2023 soulslike action role-playing game by Neowiz and Round8 Studio, loosely based on Pinocchio and set in the Belle Époque city of Krat.
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims is an 1883 autobiography by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Northern Paiute author, and the first known autobiography by a Native American woman.
Life and a Half
Life and a Half, also known as La Vie et demie, is the 1979 debut novel of Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi, a founding text of the African dictator novel.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳) is a 2006 novel by Mo Yan recounting rural Chinese history through an executed landlord reincarnated as animals.
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined is Stephenie Meyer's 2015 gender-swapped retelling of Twilight, marking the franchise's tenth anniversary, with Bella as Beau Swan and Edward as Edythe Cullen, published in a dual anniversary edition with an alternate ending.
Life and Fate
Life and Fate is an epic novel by the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, centered on the Battle of Stalingrad and widely compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Life in Hell
Life in Hell is Matt Groening's weekly black-and-white comic strip (1977-2012, 1,669 installments) featuring rabbits Binky, Sheba, and Bongo plus the gay couple Akbar and Jeff; declining to sell it to Fox, Groening created The Simpsons instead.
Life of Despot Stefan Lazarević
The Life of Despot Stefan Lazarević (Житије деспота Стефана Лазаревића) is a biography of the Serbian ruler Stefan Lazarević, written in the 1430s by Constantine of Kostenec.
Life of Grigol Khandzteli
The Life of Grigol Khandzteli, written in 951 by the monk Giorgi Merchule at Khandzta monastery, describes the life of Grigol Khandzteli, organizer of monastic construction in Tao-Klarjeti.
Life of John of Rila
Life of John of Rila (Иван Рилски) is the story of the Bulgarian hermit, c. 876–946, who founded Rila Monastery and became Bulgaria's most venerated saint.
Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Black Hawk)
Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk, is the 1833 autobiography of Sauk war chief Black Hawk, the first memoir by a Native American resisting Indian removal.
Life of Mashtots
The Life of Mashtots (Armenian: Varkʿ Maštocʿi) is a fifth-century hagiography by Koriun, Mashtots's disciple, and the primary source for the invention of the Armenian alphabet around 405 CE.