Three Midkemia side stories set during or around the events of the Riftwar Saga, co-authored with William R. Forstchen, Joel Rosenberg, and S. M. Stirling.

3 books · View reading order →

franchise-series · complete

Legends of the Riftwar

by William R. Forstchen

A shared-universe fantasy series co-authored with Raymond E. Feist.

1 book · View reading order →

series · completed

Legion

by Brandon Sanderson

Science-fiction novellas about investigator Stephen Leeds and his manifested aspects.

4 books · View reading order →

comic-series · complete

Legion of Super-Heroes

by Brian Michael Bendis

Bendis's Legion of Super-Heroes relaunch and its prelude.

3 books · View reading order →

comic series · completed

Legion of Super-Heroes

by Mark Waid

Mark Waid's work on Legionnaires and Legion of Super-Heroes.

5 books · View reading order →

novel-series · complete

Leigh Botts

by Beverly Cleary

Books about Leigh Botts, a boy who writes letters and copes with family change and friendship.

2 books · View reading order →

thriller series · complete

Leo Vidal

by Francesc Miralles

A historical-adventure thriller series featuring journalist and investigator Leo Vidal.

3 books · View reading order →

mystery-series · completed

Leonid McGill Mysteries

by Walter Mosley

New York mysteries featuring private investigator Leonid McGill.

6 books · View reading order →

novel series · incomplete

Les Chemins de la liberté

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Sartre's planned novel cycle about individual and political life in France before and during the Second World War. Three novels were published; the projected fourth volume remained unfinished.

3 books · View reading order →

short-story-collection · completed

Les Contes drolatiques

by Honoré de Balzac

A separately published collection of bawdy and comic tales written in an archaizing Renaissance style.

1 book · View reading order →

biographical series · complete

Les Grands hommes en robe de chambre

by Alexandre Dumas

Biographical portraits of major figures in French and European history.

3 books · View reading order →

art-monograph-series · completed

Les Maîtres de la peinture moderne

by Jean Selz

Flammarion's illustrated monograph series on major modern painters.

8 books · View reading order →

novel cycle · incomplete

Les Quatre Évangiles

by Émile Zola

Zola's projected four-novel cycle; three novels were completed and published, while Justice remained unfinished.

3 books · View reading order →

novel cycle · complete

Les Rougon-Macquart

by Émile Zola

A twenty-novel cycle tracing the Rougon-Macquart family across the Second French Empire.

20 books · View reading order →

novel cycle · complete

Les Trois Villes

by Émile Zola

A three-novel cycle examining religion, modernity, and society through Lourdes, Rome, and Paris.

3 books · View reading order →

duology · complete

Less Than Zero sequence

by Bret Easton Ellis

A two-novel sequence centered on Clay Easton, beginning with his return to Los Angeles in Less Than Zero and continuing twenty-five years later in Imperial Bedrooms.

2 books · View reading order →

picture-book series · completed

Lester

by Quentin Blake

Three picture books about Lester and his comic adventures.

3 books · View reading order →

comic series · complete

Letter 44

by Charles Soule

A science-fiction political thriller about a crewed mission investigating an anomaly in the asteroid belt.

1 book · View reading order →

letters · complete

Letters of James Joyce

by James Joyce

The three-volume edition of Joyce's correspondence published posthumously, with volume 1 edited by Stuart Gilbert and volumes 2–3 edited by Richard Ellmann.

3 books · View reading order →

series · completed

Letty Dobesh Chronicles

by Blake Crouch

A series of crime novellas about Letty Dobesh, a thief and con artist repeatedly drawn into dangerous schemes.

3 books · View reading order →

comic-series · complete

Leviathan

by Brian Michael Bendis

A DC espionage storyline written by Bendis and centered on the Leviathan organization.

2 books · View reading order →

trilogy · completed

Leviathan

by Scott Westerfeld

An illustrated alternate-history trilogy set during World War I, featuring genetically engineered animals and steam-powered war machines.

4 books · View reading order →

fiction · complete

Liar Liar

by Gary Paulsen

The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of series.

5 books · View reading order →

novels · complete

Library Wars

by Hiro Arikawa

A six-volume series about a library defense force protecting freedom of expression in a censorship society.

6 books · View reading order →

novel series · completed

Licanius Trilogy

by James Islington

A completed epic fantasy trilogy involving forbidden powers, prophecy, and a rising evil.

3 books · View reading order →

duet · completed

Lies & Truths Duet

by Rina Kent

A psychological dark-romance duet involving unreliable memories, secrets, and deception.

2 books · View reading order →

fiction · complete

Lieutenant Ronnie Gold

by Gary Paulsen

Thrillers featuring Lieutenant Ronnie Gold.

2 books · View reading order →

trilogy · complete

Life Class Trilogy

by Pat Barker

A trilogy following artists and medical workers through the social and personal upheavals of the First and Second World Wars.

3 books · View reading order →

series · complete

Life On Stage

by Vi Keeland

A two-book rock-music romance series.

2 books · View reading order →

nonfiction-reference · complete

Time-Life's hardbound popular-science series published from 1963 to 1967. Drugs is volume 24 of the series and was written by Walter Modell, Alfred Lansing, and the editors of Life. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Science_Library

1 book · View reading order →

novel-series · completed

LIFEL1K3

by Jay Kristoff

A young adult science-fiction trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic world shaped by artificial intelligence, war, and identity.

3 books · View reading order →

supplementary short fiction · complete

Light and Shadow Stories

by Janny Wurts

Supplementary short fiction set in the world of Wars of Light and Shadow.

6 books · View reading order →

series · complete

Lightbringer Series

by Brent Weeks

A five-volume epic fantasy series set in the Seven Satrapies.

5 books · View reading order →

trilogy · complete

Lighthouse Trilogy

by Adrian McKinty

A young adult science-fiction trilogy involving a boy who discovers a gateway between Earth and the planet Altair.

3 books · View reading order →

novel-series · completed

Lightning

by Tracy Wolff

Contemporary football romance.

3 books · View reading order →

young-adult novels · complete

Likely Story

by David Levithan

Young-adult novels co-written under the collective pseudonym David Van Etten.

3 books · View reading order →

novel-series · complete

Lily Bard

by Charlaine Harris

Mysteries featuring Lily Bard, a house cleaner with a violent past, in Shakespeare, Arkansas.

5 books · View reading order →

series · completed

Lilywhite Boys

by KJ Charles

Linked historical romances about the jewel thieves known as the Lilywhite Boys and their associates.

5 books · View reading order →

book-series · completed

Limits to Growth

by Donella H. Meadows

Donella H. Meadows's major co-authored works examining global economic and population growth within planetary limits.

3 books · View reading order →

crime-fiction-series · complete

Lindsay Gordon

by Val McDermid

Crime novels featuring journalist Lindsay Gordon.

6 books · View reading order →

trilogy · complete

Line of Dreams

by Sergei Lukyanenko

A space-opera trilogy about immortality, interstellar politics, and the fate of humanity.

3 books · View reading order →

series · complete

Line of Duty

by Tessa Bailey

Contemporary romances centered on law-enforcement heroes and the women they fall for.

6 books · View reading order →

novel · complete

Lion Hunters Cycle

by Elizabeth Wein

An Arthurian and Aksumite historical-fantasy cycle centered on royal families and political struggles in the late antique world.

5 books · View reading order →

novel-series · complete

Lionwolf

by Tanith Lee

A fantasy trilogy about the Lionwolf and the wars surrounding him.

3 books · View reading order →

novel-series · incomplete

Liquor

by Poppy Z. Brite

A series of novels and related fiction about New Orleans chefs John 'Rickey' Rickey, Gary 'G-Man' Stubbs, and their extended families.

5 books · View reading order →

poetry and short-story collection series · completed

Literally Disturbed

by Ben H. Winters

A completed series of illustrated collections of eerie poems and stories for young readers.

3 books · View reading order →

edited series · complete

Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication

by Peter Hobley Davison

A fourteen-volume edited series of historical and sociological writings on literature, culture, mass media, authorship, publishing, and popular taste, edited by Peter Davison, Rolf Meyersohn, and Edward Shils.

14 books · View reading order →

novel-series · complete

Little Beach Street Bakery

by Jenny Colgan

Novels about Polly Waterford, her bakery, and the community of a Cornish island.

4 books · View reading order →

romance-series · complete

Little Bridge Island

by Meg Cabot

A series of interconnected adult romances set on a Florida Keys island; each story stands alone.

4 books · View reading order →

series · complete

Little Endless Storybooks

by Jill Thompson

Children's books featuring childlike versions of Neil Gaiman's Endless, written and illustrated by Jill Thompson.

2 books · View reading order →

novel-series · complete

Little House

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

A sequence of autobiographical children's novels depicting Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood, adolescence, and early married life on the American frontier.

9 books · View reading order →

linked fiction series · complete