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Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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• Stephen LaBerge, Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life (Sounds True, Inc)
• Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (Little, Brown)
• Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition (Avalon)
• Peter Ladefoged, Vowels and Consonants
• William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life: abortion and Buddhism in Japan (Princeton)
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (Houghton Mifflin)
• George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (University of Chicago Press)
  
• George Lakoff, Don't Think of an Elephant: Progressive Values and the Framing Wars a Progressive Guide to Action (Chelsea Green Publishing Company)
• Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (Algonquin)
• Janja Lalich with Madeleine Landau Tobias, Captive Hearts, Captive Minds (Hunter)
• Jake Lamar, Close to the Bone (Crown)
• Brian Lamb, Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America (Times)
• Joan Lambert, Circles of Stone Pocket Books
• Kelly Lambert Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-on Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power Basic Books
• Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison (Mercury House)
• Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith (Riverhead)
• Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Pantheon)
• Annie Lamott, Crooked Little Heart Pantheon
• Brad Land, Goat: A Memoir (Random House)
• Anthony Lane, Nobody's Perfect: Selected Writings from the New Yorker (Knopf)
• George Lang, Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen (Knopf)
• William Langewiesche, American Ground (North Point Press)
• William Langewiesche, Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight Pantheon
• William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert Pantheon
• Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget (Knopf)
• Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget (Knopf)
• Frans Lanting, Jungles (Taschen)
• John Lantos, Do We Still Need Doctors? Routledge
• Joseph Lanza, Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong (Picador)
• Joseph Lanza, Gravity: Tilted Perspectives on Rocketships, Rollercoasters, Earthquakes and Angel Food Picador USA
• Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster (Warner Books)
• Marc Lappe, Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food (Common Courage Press)
• Frances Moore Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet (Ballantine Books)
• Loretta LaRoche, Relax -- you may only have a few minutes left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work (Villard)
• Edward Larson, Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands
• Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City (Vintage)
• Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Vintage)
• Peter Larson and Kristin Donnan, Rex Appeal: The Amazing Story of Sue, the Dinosaur That Changed Science, the Law, and My Life (Invisible Cities Press)
• Thomas Larson, The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings (Pegasus Books)
  
• David Laskin, Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather Doubleday
• Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America (Eagle Brook)
• Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary Beth Mader, Grain of Life (Columbia)
• Rebecca Latimer, You're Not Old Until You're Ninety...Best To Be Prepared, However (Blue Dolphin)
• Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Kill the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America (HarperOne)
• Robert B. Laughlin, The Crime of Reason: and the closing of the scientific mind (Basic)
• Victoria Laurie, Better Read Than Dead: a Psychic Eye Mystery (Penguin)
• Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible (Avon Books)
• Mary Wells Lawrence, A Big Life (in advertising) (Knopf)
• Eric Lax and A.M. Sperber, Bogart Morrow
• Eric Lax, Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking (Knopf)
• Penelope Leach, Your Baby and Child Knopf
• David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk: a novel (Bloomsbury)
• Judith Leavitt, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health (Beacon)
• David Lebovitz, The Great Book of Chocolate (Ten Speed Press)
• Jack Lechner, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Crown)
• Chang-rae Lee, Aloft: a novel (Riverhead)
• Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf: a biography Knopf
• Mark Lee, The Canal House (Algonquin)
• David Leeming and Jake Page, editors, Myths, Legends and Folktales of America Oxford
• Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Guys (Vintage)
• Mary Lefkowitz, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths (Yale)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (Harcourt)
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (Harcourt)
  
• Ursula Le Guin, The Telling (Harcourt)
• David Lehman and James Tate, editors, The Best American Poetry, 1997 (Scribner)
• David Lehman and Harold Bloom, editors, The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1998 (Scribner)
• Jonah Lehrer How We Decide (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Mariner Books)
• Annie Leibovitz, Women (Random House)
• Carolyn Lei-lanilau, Ono Ono Girl's Hula (University of Wisconsin)
• Robert Leleux, The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy (St. Martin's Press)
  
• Marti Leimbach, Daniel Isn't Talking (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
• Brad Leithauser, The Friends of Freeland Knopf
• Gary Giddins, A Pocketful of Dreams - the Early Years, 1903-1940 (Little, Brown)
• Joseph Lemasolai-Lekuton & Herman Viola, Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna (National Geographic)
• Jerry Lembcke, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York University)
• Michael Lemonick, Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe (Simon & Schuster)
• Lena Lencek & Gideon Bosker, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth (Penguin)
• Eddie Lenihan & Carolyn Eve Green, Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland (Tarcher/Putnam)
• Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change (Free Press)
• John Leonard, Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television and Other American Cultures The New Press
• Jill Lepore, A is for American: Letter and Other Characters in the Newly United States (Knopf)
• Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: a lament (Simon & Schuster)
• Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters Oxford
• Harriet Lerner, PhD., Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life Harper Collins
• Steve Lerner, Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems M.I.T. Press
• Craig Lesley, The Sky Fisherman (Houghton Mifflin)
• Doris Lessing, Ben, In the World (Harper Collins)
• Doris Lessing, Love Again (Harper Perennial)
• Julius Lester, The Tales of Uncle Remus (Dutton)
• Jonathan Lethem, You Don’t Love Me Yet: A Novel (Doubleday)
• Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City (Doubleday)
• Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City (Doubleday)
• Jonathan Lethem, Girl in Landscape (Doubleday)
• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday)
• Benedict Le Vay, Nigel Dempster, Eccentric Britain: The Bradt Guide to Britain's Follies & Foibles (Bradt Publications)
• Aaron Leventhal & Jeff Kraft, Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco (Santa Monica Press)
• Primo Levi, The Periodic Table (Schocken Books)
• Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space (Anchor Books)
• Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines: a novel (Knopf)
• Theodore Levin, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: music travels in Central Asia (and Queens, NY) (Indiana)
• Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design Princeton Architectural Press
• James Levine, Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and the Family Addison Wesley
• Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase: a true story (Albert Whitman & Co)
• Noah Levine, Dharma Punx: a memoir (Harper San Francisco)
• Robert Levine, A Geography of Time, Basic Books
  Also heard in the program Getting a Life
• Daniel Levitin, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature (Penguin)
• Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music: the science of a human obsession (Dutton)
• Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pig: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Free Press)
• David Levy, Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky (Prometheus)
• Alan Lew, One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi (Kodansha)
• John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets and Planets Addison Wesley
• Michael Lewis, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Norton)
• Michael Lewis, Trail Fever: spin doctors, rented strangers, thumb wrestlers, toe sucker, girzzly bears, and other creatures on the road to the White House Knopf
• Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon, A General Theory of Love (Random House)
• The Library of America, Reporting Vietnam, Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969 (The Library of America)
• The Library of America, Reporting Vietnam, Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 (The Library of America)
• Paul Lichterman, The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment (Cambridge University Press)
• Lisa Lieberman, Leaving You: The Cultural Meaning of Suicide (Ivan R. Dee)
• Daniel Libeskind, Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architecture (Riverhead Books)
• Anatol Lieven, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (Yale Univ.)
• Hilary Lifton and Kate Montgomery, Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) By an Ocean (Vintage)
• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect: an exploration (Perseus Books)
• Eric Lichtblau, Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice (Pantheon Press)
• Dana Lindaman & Kyle Ward, History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History (The New Press)
  
• Blanche Linden, Silent City on a Hill: Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery (Ohio State University Press)
• David Lindorff, Pauli and Jung: the Meeting of Two Great Minds (Quest Books)
• Edward T. Linenthal, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory (Oxford)
• Aaaron Raz Link & Hilda Raz, What Becomes You
  ("American Lives Series'\/Tobias Wolff, Editor) (University of Nebraska Press)
• Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press)
• Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories (Viking)
• Simi Linton, Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity NYU Press
• Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (Norton)
• David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper (Random House)
• David Liss, A Spectacle of Corruption: a novel (Random House)
• Elizabeth Little, Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic (Melville House Publishing)
• Jonathan Littman, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulson Little, Brown
• Carol Lloyd, Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life (HarperPerennial)
• David Lodge: Thinks (Viking)
• Jack Loeffler, Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey (University of New Mexico Press)
• Pamela Logan, Among Warriors (Overlook Press)
• Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening Chelsea Green
• Stanley Lomabardo - translator, Homer's Iliad Hackett
• Bjorn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press)
• Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (Scribner)
• Barry Lopez, About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (Knopf) Also in Program # 98-10-11-C "Come Fly With Me",
• Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (Chicago)
• Steve Lopez, The Soloist (Putnam)
• Betty Bao Lord, The Middle Heart Knopf
• M.G. Lord, Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science (Walker & Company)
• Sara Lorimer, Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas (Chronicle Books)
• Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods (Alqonquin)
• Sharon Lovejoy, Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots (Workman)
• Sharon Lovejoy, Sunflower Houses: Sharing Secrets from Gardens Past (Workman)
• Sharon Lovejoy, Trowel & Error (Workman)
• Margaret Lowman, Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale)
• Judith Lowry, Gardening with a Wild Heart (University of California Press)
• Anthony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray, The Decadent Cookbook Dedalus
• Lynne Luciano, Looking Good: Male Body Image in Contemporary America (Hill & Wang)
• Melissa Ludtke, On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America (California)
  Also heard in "Becoming Women"
• Derek Lundy, Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Algonquin)
• Hugh Lupton, Freaky Tales from Far and Wide (Barefoot)
• Paul Lussier, Last Refuge of Scoundrels: a Revolutionary Novel (Warner)
• Jackie Lyden, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Houghton Mifflin
• Tom Lutz, Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears (Norton)
• Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, And Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Susan Gordon Lydon, The Knitting Sutra: craft as spiritual practice Harper Collins
• Thomas Lynch, Bodies in Motion and At Rest (Norton)
• Thomas Lynch, Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans (W.W.Norton)
• Thomas Lynch, The Undertaking: life studies from the dismal trade (Norton)

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BOOKS and AUTHORS

Listed alphabetically by author's surname. Here are links to each letter:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The author's name links to the program featuring the author.

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