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The Liberal Imagination
The Liberal Imagination is a 1950 collection of sixteen essays on literature and society by the American critic Lionel Trilling, his first essay volume and an unlikely bestseller.
The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel) is Jorge Luis Borges's 1941 short story, collected in Ficciones, describing a hexagonal universe-library containing all possible 410-page books of 23 letters, mostly gibberish.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch's 2006 debut and first Gentleman Bastard novel, follows con artist Locke Lamora and his crew in Camorr, a fantasy Venice; a World Fantasy Award finalist praised for prose and criticized for pacing.
The Life and Adventures of Dimitrije Obradović
The Life and Adventures of Dimitrije Obradović is the autobiography of the Serbian Enlightenment writer Dositej Obradović, published in two parts in Leipzig in 1783 and 1788.
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin is a satirical novel by Vladimir Voinovich about a Red Army private forgotten by his unit in 1941.
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is Fay Weldon's 1983 black-comic revenge novel about Ruth Patchett, who remakes herself after her husband Bobbo leaves her for romance novelist Mary Fisher; adapted by the BBC in 1986 and as the 1989 film She-Devil.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Tristram Shandy (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman) is Laurence Sterne's nine-volume comic novel, published 1759–1767, famous for digressions, blank and black pages, and its narrator's delayed birth.
The Life and Sufferings of Sinful Sophronius
The Life and Sufferings of Sinful Sophronius (Житие и страдания грешнаго Софрония) is the 1804 autobiography of Sophronius, Bishop of Vratsa, the first in Bulgarian literature.
The Life and Teaching of Tierno Bokar
The Life and Teaching of Tierno Bokar is a 1980 French book by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ on his Sufi master Tierno Bokar of Bandiagara.
The Life and Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by J. M. Coetzee about a gardener with a cleft lip in a war-torn South Africa, winner of the Booker Prize.
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Lo$) is a 12-chapter comic storyline by Don Rosa, tracing Scrooge's life from 1880s Scotland to his 1947 reunion with Donald Duck.
The Life of Arseniev
The Life of Arseniev (Zhizn Arsenieva) is an autobiographical novel in five books by Ivan Bunin, tracing the hero Aleksei Arseniev from infancy to young manhood as he becomes a writer.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Published in 1857, The Life of Charlotte Brontë is a two-volume biography of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, shaping their public image of genius and tragedy.
The Life of Klim Samgin
The Life of Klim Samgin (Жизнь Клима Самгина, subtitled "Forty Years") is Maxim Gorky's unfinished four-part novel-epic, written from 1925 until his death in 1936, chronicling Russian life from the 1880s to 1918.
The Life of Monsieur de Molière
The Life of Monsieur de Molière (Жизнь господина де Мольера) is Mikhail Bulgakov's novelized biography of the French playwright, written in 1932–1933 and first published in 1962.
The Life of Muhammad
The Life of Muhammad, or Sīrat Rasūl Allāh, is the classical Arabic biography of the Prophet compiled by Ibn Isḥāq and preserved in Ibn Hishām's recension.
The Life of Nelson
The Life of Nelson is an 1813 biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson by the English poet Robert Southey, still counted among the most widely read accounts of the admiral.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson is a 1791 biography of Samuel Johnson by his Scottish friend James Boswell, widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of biography.
The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind is the unfinished final book of philosopher Hannah Arendt, examining thinking, willing, and judging, published posthumously in two volumes in 1978.
The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans is a 2012 debut novel by M.L. Stedman about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who keep a baby that washes ashore off Western Australia.
The Lightning Thief
The Lightning Thief is a 2005 young readers novel by Rick Riordan, the first Percy Jackson book, in which twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, quests to avert a war among the gods.
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (French: Lumières de Pointe-Noire) is an autobiographical narrative by the Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou, published in January 2013, recounting his return after 23 years abroad.
The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature
The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature is a 542-page college textbook of Philippine poetry, fiction, essay, and drama in English, edited by Gémino Abad and published in 1998.
The Lime Works
The Lime Works (Das Kalkwerk) is a 1970 novel by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard about the scholar Konrad, who shoots his wife after years of futile study.
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Lincoln Lawyer is Michael Connelly's 2005 legal thriller introducing LA defense attorney Mickey Haller, who works from his Lincoln Town Car and is Harry Bosch's half-brother; it spawned a book series, a 2011 film, and a Netflix series ending with season 5.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) is C. S. Lewis's first-published Chronicles of Narnia book, in which the Pevensie children enter Narnia through a wardrobe, meet Aslan, and end the White Witch's endless winter; illustrated by Pauline Baynes, adapted to film in 2005.
The Little Drummer Girl
The Little Drummer Girl (1983) is John le Carré's tenth spy novel, his first with a female protagonist: actress Charlie, recruited by Israeli intelligence to trap Palestinian bomber Khalil; adapted as a 1984 film and a 2018 Park Chan-wook miniseries.
The Little Engine That Could
The Little Engine That Could is a 1930 Platt & Munk children's book credited to Watty Piper, a pseudonym for publisher Arnold Munk, retold from Mabel C. Bragg's 1916 "The Pony Engine," famous for the refrain "I think I can."
The Little Golden Calf
The Little Golden Calf (Zolotoi telyonok) is a 1931 satirical novel by Ilf and Petrov, sequel to The Twelve Chairs, following the con man Ostap Bender.
The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna (Домик в Коломне) is a humorous narrative poem in octaves by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1830 and published in 1833.