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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

My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2019

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 Side of the River
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

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
Betty G. Birney

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2012

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

Mysterious Skin
Scott Heim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Mystery at Lake Placid
Roy MacGregor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park
Aaron Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Mystery Man
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mystery of the Flying Express (The Hardy Boys, #20)
Franklin W. Dixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1941

Mystery of the Haunted Pool
Phyllis A. Whitney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Mystic River
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

My Story
Julia Gillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Struggle
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Transl. Don Bartlett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

My Sweet Audrina
V.C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

My Sweet Orange Tree
Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

My Swordhand is Singing (My Swordhand is Singing, #1)
Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

My Teacher Is an Alien (My Teacher Is an Alien, #1)
Bruce Coville

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

My Temptation
T.L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)
Robert Holdstock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World)
Mircea Eliade

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

My Thirteenth Winter
Samantha Abeel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Mythologies
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1942

Mythos
Paul Jenkins, Paolo Rivera (Illustrator)

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2008

My Thoughts Exactly
Lily Allen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

My Three Years in Manipur; And Escape from the Recent Mutiny
Ethel St. Clair Grimwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Transl. Stephanie Dalley, Ed. Stephanie Dalley, Anonymous

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

My Time Among the Whites
Jennine Capó Crucet

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Kiersten White, Jim Tierney, Myra McEntire, Kelly Link, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, Matt de la Peña, Holly Black, David Levithan, Stephanie Perkins, Ally Carter

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Published in 2014

My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
Julissa Arce

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

My Unexpected Forever
Heidi McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Vanishing Country
Bakari Sellers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

My Way to You (Creek Canyon, #1)
Catherine Bybee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

My Wicked, Wicked Ways
Errol Flynn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1959

My Year in a Log Cabin
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

My Year of Meats
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mabinogion: From The Llyfr Coch O Hergest, And Other Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, With An English Translation And Notes; Volume 1
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Machine-Gunners
Robert Westall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

The Machine that Won the War
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1961

The Mad and the Bad
Jean-Patrick Manchette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972