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Morgan's Passing
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Moriarty
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Moribito, #1)
Nahoko Uehashi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Morning Girl
Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Morning in the Burned House
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mornings on Horseback
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1981

Morphology of the Folktale
Vladimir Propp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1928

Morrigan's Cross
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mort
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Mortal Coil
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Mortal Heart
Robin LaFevers

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Mortality
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Mortal Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Mortals
Norman Rush

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle, #1)
Alan Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Mosaic
Diane Armstrong

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Moscow 2042
Vladimir Voinovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Moscow Rules
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Moses and Monotheism
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Moses Ascending
Sam Selvon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Mosquitoland
David Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1846

Mossflower
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Most Ardently
Gabe Novoa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mostly the Honest Truth
Jody J. Little

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
Savannah Guthrie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Most of All You: A Love Story
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Most Wanted
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mother
Maxim Gorky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

Mother California
Kenneth E. Hartman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

Mother Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
Sarah Knott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Mother May I
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mother of Death & Dawn
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mothers and Daughters
Rae Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mothers and Others
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Mothers of Invention
Drew Gilpin Faust

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Motherthing
Ainslie Hogarth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Mother Tongue
Demetria Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Motorcycle Man
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Motorman
David Ohle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
Saadat Hasan Manto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Mountain Born (Mountain Born, #1)
Elizabeth Yates

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1943

Mountain of Gold
Betty Lee Sung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Robert Macfarlane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Mourning and Melancholia
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1917

Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1931

Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Move Like Water
Hannah Stowe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Move Your Shadow
Joseph Lelyveld

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Moving Among Strangers
Gabrielle Carey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Moving Day
Terence Young

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Moving Pictures
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Moxie
Jennifer Mathieu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Moxyland
Lauren Beukes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Mozart's Sister
Nancy Moser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music
Jane Glover

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Mr. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #2)
Evan S. Connell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Mr. China
Tim Clissold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
Susan Elia MacNeal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mr. Darcy's Diary
Amanda Grange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Mr. Dickens And His Carol
Samantha Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mr. Emerson's Wife
Amy Belding Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Mr. Fixer Upper
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mr. Flood's Last Resort
Jess Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mr. Ives' Christmas
Oscar Hijuelos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Mr. Kiss and Tell
Jennifer Graham, Rob Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Mr. Lemoncello's Very First Game
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Mr Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mr. Masters
T. L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mr. Maybe
Jane Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
C.S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

Mr. Monster (John Cleaver, #2)
Dan Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mr. & Mrs. American Pie
Juliet McDaniel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mr. Murder
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Mr. Nice
Howard Marks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Mr. Nobody
Catherine Steadman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mr. Palomar
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, Rodrigo Corral

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012