Great Books – L

La Regenta (Clarín, aka Leopoldo Alas)
La Vita Nuova (Dante Alighieri)
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Lady Windermere’s Fan (Oscar Wilde)
Lamb in His Bosom (Caroline Miller)
Lamy of Santa Fe (Paul Horgan)
Late George Apley (John Philips Marquand)
Last Orders (Graham Swift)
Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story (Oliver La Farge)
Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 (Robert V. Bruce)
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Lectures on Revivals of Religion (Charles Finney)
Lectures on Romans (Martin Luther)
Lee (Douglas Southall Freeman)
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Tim Weiner)
Legs (William Kennedy) (8 in series)
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (David Remnick)
Leonardo’s Notebooks (Leonardo da Vinci)
Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (Charles Baudelaire)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) FILM
Less (Andrew Sean Greer)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
Let Justice Roll Down (John M. Perkins)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (James Agee)
Letter Concerning Toleration (John Locke)
Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) YouTube
Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Peter Abelard)
Letters on England (Voltaire)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (Lionel Trilling)
Life of Andrew Jackson (Marquis James)
Life and Diary of David Brainerd (David Brainerd)
Life of John Marshall (Albert J. Beveridge) (4 in series)
Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (Burton J. Hendrick)
Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (Perry Miller) (3 in series)
Life of Moses (Gregory of Nyssa)
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ralph L. Rusk)
Life of Reason (George Santayana)
Life of Saint Macrina (Gregory of Nyssa)
Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
Life of Sir William Osler (Harvey Cushing) (2 in series)
Life of St. Antony (Athanasius)
Life and Times of Cotton Mather (Kenneth Silverman)
Life and Times of Michael K (J. M. Coetzee)
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Lilith (George MacDonald)
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Garry Wills)
Lindbergh (A. Scott Berg)
Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634 (Catherine Drinker Bowen)
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) (7 in series)
Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens)
Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi (Francis of Assisi)
Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (3 in series) FILM
Lives of the Poets (Samuel Johnson)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (James Forman Jr.)
Logic – The Theory of Inquiry (John Dewey)
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) (4 in series)
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Eugene O’Neill)
Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist (Dorothy Day)
Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (David Herbert Donald)
Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)
Lord of Misrule (Jaimy Gordon)
Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien) (3 in series)
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed)
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (Walker Percy)
Louise Bogan: A Portrait (Elizabeth Frank)
Love (Stendhal)
Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited (Austin Farrer)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Love’s Endeavour, Love’s Expense: The Response of Being to the Love of God (W. H. Vanstone)
Luce and His Empire (W. A. Swanberg)
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
Luminaries (Eleanor Catton)
Lux Mundi : a series of studies in the religion of the incarnation (Charles Gore)
Lycidas (John Milton)
Lyrical Ballads (William Wordsworth)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

Books marked with an asterisk * are video collaborations!

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