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My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
Joseph O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Father's Paradise
Ariel Sabar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

My Fault
Mercedes Ron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

My Favorite Half-Night Stand
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Feudal Lord
Tehmina Durrani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
Rachel DeLoache Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

My Friend Flicka
Mary O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

My Friend Leonard
James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Friends
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
Jennifer Teege

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts
Resmaa Menakem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
Kohei Horikoshi, Transl. Caleb D. Cook

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

My Husband
Maud Ventura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Husband's Wife
Jane Corry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

My Inventions
Nikola Tesla

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1935

My Italian Bulldozer (Paul Stuart, #1)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Jim
Nancy Rawles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

My Killer Vacation
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

My Lady Jane
Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Lady Ludlow
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1858

My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Last Innocent Year
Daisy Alpert Florin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Left Foot
Christy Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1954

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Kabi Nagata, Jocelyne Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

My Life
Lyn Hejinian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

My Life And Work (The Autobiography Of Henry Ford)
Henry Ford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1922

My Life as a Book
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

My Life as a Man
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

My Life as a Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

My Life in France
Julia Child

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Indra Nooyi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Amos Tutuola

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

My Life (The Art of the Novella series)
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1896

My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

My Life with the Saints
James Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

My Life with the Walter Boys
Ali Novak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Lives
Edmund White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Lord The Baby
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

My Losing Season
Pat Conroy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

My Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1919

My Marriage (New York Review Books Classics)
Jakob Wassermann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

My Mechanical Romance
Alexene Farol Follmuth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

My Most Excellent Year
Steve Kluger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

My Name is Aram
William Saroyan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1940

My Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

My Name Is Barbra
Barbra Streisand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

My Name is Leon
Kit de Waal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Name is Mary Sutter
Robin Oliveira

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Name Is Memory
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Name Is Not Easy
Debby Dahl Edwardson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Name is Parvana
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Name is Resolute
Nancy E. Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676
T.H. Breen, Stephen Innes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

My Old True Love
Sheila Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

My Own Country
Abraham Verghese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

My Own Story
Emmeline Pankhurst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1914

My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

My Plain Jane
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

My Policeman
Bethan Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

My Real Children
Jo Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Return to the Walter Boys
Ali Novak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

My Roommate Is a Vampire
Jenna Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Sergei: A Love Story
Ekaterina Gordeeva, E.M. Swift

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

My Side of the Matter
Truman Capote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Sister, My Love
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

My Sister Rosa
Justine Larbalestier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Sister's Grave
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
William Thomas Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

My Son the Fanatic

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1998

My Soul is Rested
Howell Raines

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

My Soul to Save
Rachel Vincent

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

My Squirrel Days
Ellie Kemper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Mysteries According to Humphrey (According to Humphrey, #8)
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mysteries of Thorn Manor
Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Mysterious Kor
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932