Books by Letter L

Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centres more on his daughter Enid and his old friend Edward Malone.

A young genius, his worldly alienation and his eccentric mother, Sibylla Newman, an American living in London after dropping out of Oxford.

The novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.

The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.

Story of a group of young boys who find themselves alone on a deserted island.

The novel is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence.

Twelve-year-old Ted lives in a place virtually devoid of nature; no flowers or trees grow in the town of Thneedville.

The classic and controversial tale of a man's inappropriate obsession with a young girl.

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper class husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, has been paralysed from the waist down due to a Great War injury.

During the World War II bombings of London, four English siblings are sent to a country house where they will be safe.

The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age.

The story centres on Bond's pursuit of "Mr Big", a criminal who has links to the American criminal network, the world of voodoo and SMERSH—an arm of the Soviet secret service—all of which are threats to the First World.

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family and her killer.

From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land not unlike the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth, following the course of the War of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, most notably the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.