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L.A. Requiem (1999) - Robert Crais (1954-)  (Grade:C)

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) - Mark Carwardine (-) - Douglas Adams (1952-2001)  (Grade:A-)

The Last Gentleman (1966) - Walker Percy (1916-1990)  (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-)

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 (-)  (Grade:B)

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. LeGuin (1929-)  (Grade:A)

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

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) - Jerry B. Jenkins (-) - Tim LaHaye (-)  (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 (1783-1859)  (Grade:A)

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 (1802-1885)  (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 (1955-)  (Grade:C-)

Let it Bleed (1996) - Ian Rankin (1960-)  (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 (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+)

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

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

Lies of Silence (1990) - Brian Moore (1921-1999)  (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 (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 in August (1932) - William Faulkner (1897-1962)  (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 (1934-) (Grade:C)

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

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) - C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)  (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 Exupery (1900-1944)  (Grade:B)

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

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 (-)  (Grade:B-)

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

Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)  (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)

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 Loo Sanction (1973) - Trevanian (1931-)  (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 (1857-1924)  (Grade:B)

Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding (1911-1993)  (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 (1892-1973)  (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 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 (1900-1954)  (Grade:A)

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

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

The Lottery (1948) - Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)  (Grade:A)

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

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

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

The Loved One (1948) - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)  (Grade:A)

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

Loving (1945) - Henry Green (1905-1974)  (Grade:D)

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