General Fiction

Lieberman's Folly

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Richard Ferrone

The first novel in a crime series about "two Chicago cops, one Jewish, one Irish . . . Told with deceptive simplicity [and] a gentle wit" (The Boston Globe). Learn More

Lieberman's Law

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Richard Ferrone

With his Chicago cops, Edgar Award winner "Kaminsky is hard to beat for a thoughtful, well-plotted, well-written mystery" (The Washington Post Book World). Learn More

Lieberman's Thief

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by David Colacci

An Edgar Award–winning author steals the show again in "a beautifully calibrated mix of wit, suspense, and quiet honesty" (The Washington Post Book World). Learn More

Life After Kafka

by Magdaléna Platzová; translated by Alex Zucker; read by Christa Lewis

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A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice. Learn More

Life Among Giants

Bill Roorbach; read by Pete Larkin

Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction Pick

A wildly entertaining novel of murder, seduction, and revenge, Life Among Giants tracks a larger-than-life Gatsby-esque quest for answers that reveals how sometimes the greatest mystery lies in knowing one’s own heart. Learn More

The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson

by Nancy Peacock; read by JD Jackson

2018 Audie Finalist

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Life Without Water, The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson is a sweeping love story that "is as deeply moving and exciting an American saga as has ever been penned" (Lee Smith, author of Dimestore). Learn More

Life Is Everywhere

by Lucy Ives; read by Cassidy Brown

A virtuosic, radical reimagining of the systems novel by a "rampaging, mirthful genius" (Elizabeth McKenzie). Learn More

A Life of Adventure and Delight

by Akhil Sharma; read by Deepti Gupta and Neil Shah

Akhil Sharma's masterful stories focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. Learn More

The Life to Come

by Michelle de Kretser; read by Shiromi Arserio

Longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize
2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award

The stand-alone yet connected worlds of The Life to Come offer meditations on intimacy, loneliness, and our flawed perception of reality. Enormously moving, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform and distort the present. It is teeming with life and earned wisdom—exhilaratingly contemporary, with the feel of a classic. Learn More

Lifelines

by Heidi Diehl; read by Christa Lewis

O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
A Cosmopolitan Best Book of the Summer

For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany—where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier—to confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral. Learn More

A Light Beyond the Trenches

by Alan Hlad; read by Peter Noble

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Long Flight Home, a WWI novel both tender and exciting, as a German Red Cross nurse joins the world's first guide dog training school for the blind and begins a quest to show a Jewish pianist who was blinded on the battlefield that life is worth living. Learn More

The Lightest Object in the Universe

by Kimi Eisele; read by Gabra Zackman

The Lightest Object in the Universe is a story about resilience and adaptation, a testament to the power of community, where our best traits, born of necessity, begin to emerge. Learn More

Like the Appearance of Horses

by Andrew Krivak; read by Jamie Renell

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A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak. Learn More

Lilith

by Nikki Marmery; read by Lara Sawalha

A triumphantly feminist retelling of ancient creation myths in the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North. Learn More

Lilli de Jong

by Janet Benton; read by Erin Moon

Library Journal Best Book

A young woman finds the most powerful love of her life when she gives birth at an institution for unwed mothers in 1883 Philadelphia. She is told she must give up her daughter to avoid a life of poverty and shame. But she chooses to keep her. Learn More