| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century(Museum of Modern Art and Harry N. Abrams, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | LatiNext: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. IV (Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2020) | Felicia Rose Chavez (Editor), José Olivarez (Editor), Willie Perdomo (Editor) | Anthology, Latin American Poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Latitude (Philidelphia, PA: The American Poetry Review, 2021) | Natasha Rao (Author) | American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Laughter: Notes on a Passion(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010) | Anca Parvulescu (Author) | Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Critical theory / Permanent Collection, BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Laundry in Public (Rochester, NY: Self-published, 2011) | Scott McCarney (Author) | Artist’s book, Photography, Contemporary art, Social documentary photography, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
| Le Dessins de Van Gogh(Les Edicion Braun, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Le Surrealisme c'est moi!: Hommage an Salvador Dalí(Nürnberg, DE: Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg GmbH, 2012) | Wolfgang Fetz (Author), Andy Warhol (Artist), Philippe Halsman, Louise Bourgeois (Artist), Gerald Matt (Editor), Francesco Vezzoli (Artist) | Permanent Collection |
 | leadbelly (St. Paul, MO: Verse Books, 2005) | Tyehimba Jess (Author) | Biography, Music, Music history, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
| leadbelly (St. Paul, MO: Verse Books, 2005) | Tyehimba Jess (Author) | Biography, Music, Music history, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
 | Leapfrog & Other Stories (New York, NY: New Directions Publishing, 2013) | Guillermo Rosales (Author), Anna Kushner (Translator) | Cuba, Fiction, Spanish language, Novella / Permanent Collection |
 | Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form(The MIT Press (1977), Edition: revised edition, 193 pages, 1977) | Robert Venturi (Author) | Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Learning from LongHouse (New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2016) | Jack Lenor Larsen (Author) | Photography, Artist biography / Permanent Collection, Jaime Davidovich Collection |
 | Learning with Palestine | Léopold Lambert (Editor), Mahdi Sabbagh (Contributor), Nick Estes (Contributor), Maath Musleh (Contributor), Jehan Bseiso (Contributor), Karim Kattan (Contributor), Samia Henni (Contributor), Mostafa Minawi (Contributor), Victoria Adukwei Bulley (Contributor), Sabrien Amrov (Contributor), Madiha Tahir (Contributor), Majd Al-Shihabi (Contributor) | Photography, Geopolitics, Periodical, Critical theory, Social documentary photography, Politically engaged, Palestine / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room, inseparable assembly Reading Room |
 | Leaves of Grass(Penguin Classics (2005), Edition: Deluxe, 208 pages, 2005) | Walt Whitman (Author) | American poetry -- 19th century / BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | Leaves of grass(Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2007., 2007) | Walt Whitman | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010) | Suzanne Lacy (Author), Kerstin Mey (Afterword), Moira Roth (Introduction) | 20th century, California, Performance, Art criticism, Artist writing, Participatory and Public art / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Leaving the Atocha Station (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2013) | Ben Lerner (Author) | Fiction / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (Tauris World Cinema Series)(I.B.Tauris (2008), 224 pages, 2008) | Lina Khatib (Author) | World cinema / BAM Reading Room (2017) |
 | lector(es)_ SITAC XI: hacer tiempo: vol. 4 (in)hopitalidad(es) (Mexico City: Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, 2013) | Marcela Quiroz Luna (Editor), Michael Hardt (Contributor), Jean-Luc Nancy (Contributor), Emmanuel Levinas (Contributor), Jacques Derrida (Contributor), Grant Kester (Contributor), Jorge Luis Borge (Contributor) | Philosophy, Art, Spanish language, Bilingual, Hospitality, Art theory / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | Lecture on Reading: Materials, Form, Organization, Actions (Chicago, IL; Berlin, Germany: Other Forms, 2019) | Theodor Adorno (Contributor), Louis Althusser (Contributor), Angela Davis (Contributor), Armin Hoffman (Contributor), Vladimir Lenin (Contributor), Jan Tschichold (Contributor), Louis Zukofsky (Contributor), Jack Henrie Fisher (Editor) | Design, Critical theory, Zines, Essay collection, MoMA Reading Room / Permanent Collection, MoMA Reading Room |
 | Lee Lozano(Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010) | Lee Lozano, Iris Müller-Westermann (Editor) | 20th century, Exhibition catalog, Painting, Monograph / Permanent Collection, Cybernetics Conference |
 | Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece (London : Afterall Books., 2014) | Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer (Afterword) | Art history, Performance, Artist biography, American art -- 20th century, Bam2016 / BAM Reading Room, 2016, Permanent Collection |
 | Legible - Visible: Between the Film Frame and the Page(Barcelona, ES: Tenov Books, 2018) | Mela Dávila (Author) | Artist’s book, Exhibition catalog, Contemporary art, Textual Studies, Film and Film Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile DJ Crews in the San Francisco Bay Area (Durham, NC; Duke University Press, 2015) | Oliver Wang (Author) | Music history, San Francisco |
| Leibow, Paul(Leibow Studios, LLC, 2015) | Paul Leibow | American art, Sculpture, Monograph, Contemporary art / Permanent Collection |
 | Lemonworld & Other Poems(Chicago: co-im-press, 2013) | Carina Finn (Author) | Poetry, Pop culture, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
| Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of An Infantile Reminiscence(Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| Leonardo: Des Meisters Gemalde und Zeichnungen(Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Leonor Antunes: the last days in chimalistac(Berlin: Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2016) | Leonor Antunes, Adam Szymczyk (Editor) | Exhibition catalog, Art, Contemporary art, Textile and fiber arts, Bard2018 / Permanent Collection, Bard Reading Room 2018 |
 | Less Like An Object More Like the Weather (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2013) | Juana Berrio (Editor), Olga Dekalo (Editor), Sarah Higgins (Editor), Karly Wildenhaus (Editor) | Exhibition catalog, Curatorial practice / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |