| Title | Author | Tags / Collections | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997) | Sherry Turkle (Author) | Technology, Science, Digital media / Permanent Collection, Mindy Seu Cyberfeminism Reference Collection |
 | Life Of Jesus(Paris, FR: Dis Voir, 2001) | Bruno Dumont (Author), Andrew Rothwell (Translator) | Play, France, 20th century, French language, Artist writing, Film and Film Studies / Permanent Collection |
 | Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1962-1995 (Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 1997) | Paula Gunn Allen (Author) | Mysticism, American poetry -- 20th century, Myth, Indigenous Poetry / Workshops |
 | Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology (New York: MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) | Ellen Ullman (Author) | Technology, Memoir / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat Collection |
 | Life Extreme: An Illustrated Guide to New Life(Paris, FR: Dis Voir, 2007) | Eduardo Kac (Author), Paul Buck (Translator), Catherine Petit (Translator), Avita Ronell (Author) | Artist’s book, Critical theory, Contemporary art, Ecology and Environmentalism, Artist writing / Permanent Collection |
 | Lies II: A Journal of Materialist Feminism (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2015) | Lie Collective (Editor) | Collective, Feminism and Feminist theory, Feminist collectives |
Libro Temprano/ Early Book (Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Daga, 2013) | Benjamin Ossa (Artist), Sebatián Rodriguez Besa (Designer), Jorge Losse (Editor), Maya Errázuriz (Author) | Chile, Photography, Bilingual / Erizo Residency | |
 | Liberalism: A Counter-History (Brooklyn, NY; Verso Books, 2014) | Domenico Losurdo (Author) | Politics, Leftwing Politics |
 | Li Kung-lin's "Classic of Filial Piety"(Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012), 176 pages, 2012) | Richard Barnhart (Author) | Bard2017 / Bard Reading Room (2017), Permanent Collection |
 | LEX ICON (Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) | Salette Tavares (Author), Isabel Sobral Campos (Translator), Kristofer Petersen-Overton (Translator) | Portuguese, Poetry, Bilingual, Experimental poetry / Permanent Collection |
 | Letters to Wendy's(Athens, GA: Verse Press, 2000) | Joe Wenderoth (Author) | Memoir, Poetry, Essay, Letters, Review / Permanent Collection |
 | Letter·Callus·Post-war (Taipei, Taiwan: dmp editions, 2020) | Chen Hsiang-Wen (Curator) | Language and Linguistics, Asia Pacific, Social history, Exhibition catalog, Military / Permanent Collection |
 | Letter to the Amazon(Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) | Marina Tsvetaeva (Author) | Permanent Collection |
 | Let Me Be Clear(Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012) | Bernie; Benson Cara Sanders | Permanent Collection |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
| Leonardo: Des Meisters Gemalde und Zeichnungen(Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
| Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of An Infantile Reminiscence(Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, ?) | Permanent Collection, Laurin Raiken Archive | |
 | Lemonworld & Other Poems(Chicago: co-im-press, 2013) | Carina Finn (Author) | Poetry, Pop culture, American poetry -- 21st century / Permanent Collection |
| Leibow, Paul(Leibow Studios, LLC, 2015) | Paul Leibow | American art, Sculpture, Monograph, Contemporary art / 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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) |
 | Leaving the Atocha Station (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2013) | Ben Lerner (Author) | Fiction / Permanent Collection, Orit Gat 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 |
 | Leaves of Grass(Penguin Classics (2005), Edition: Deluxe, 208 pages, 2005) | Walt Whitman (Author) | American poetry -- 19th century / BAM Reading Room (2017) |