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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Man Who Smiled
Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Man Who Turned into a Stick
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
Anil Ananthaswamy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Man Who Was Poe
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1888

The Man Within
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

The Man With Night Sweats
Thom Gunn

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1863

The Man Without a Face
Isabelle Holland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1)
Julian May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Lara Love Hardin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Many Meanings of Meilan
Andrea Wang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Many Sins of Lord Cameron (MacKenzies & McBrides, #3)
Jennifer Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Mapmakers
John Noble Wilford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mapmaker's Children
Sarah McCoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife
Eben Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Map of Love
Ahdaf Soueif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Map of Salt and Stars
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mapping of Love and Death
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The March
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Mark
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mark Of Athena
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Mark of the Dragonfly
Jaleigh Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Marriage Act
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Marriage Bargain
Jennifer Probst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Marriage Game
Sara Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Marriage Lie
Kimberly Belle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Marriage Of Opposites
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Marriage Pact
Michelle Richmond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Marriage Trap
Jennifer Probst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Marrow of Tradition
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Marsh King's Daughter
Karen Dionne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Martian
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Martian Invasion of Earth
H.G. Wells, Nicholas Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1898

The Martian Way and Other Stories

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1955

The Martyr
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Martyred
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Marvellers
Dhonielle Clayton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

The Marvels
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Mary Shelley Club
Goldy Moldavsky

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Masked City
Genevieve Cogman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)
M.A. Carrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Mask of Sanity
Hervey M. Cleckley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605

The Masqueraders
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

The Massacre at El Mozote
Mark Danner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Master
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Iain McGilchrist

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Masterharper of Pern
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Master Key System
Charles F. Haanel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1912

The Master Magician
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom #6)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

The Masterpiece
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
Chris Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Master Puppeteer
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Masters (Strangers and Brothers, #5)
C.P. Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
Don Miguel Ruiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Matarese Circle
Robert Ludlum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Match
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Matchlock Gun
Illustr. Paul Lantz, Walter D. Edmonds

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1941

The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
Kit Yates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Mating
Nicky Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Matrix: The Shooting Script

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Mats
Francisco Arcellana

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Matzah Ball
Jean Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Mauritanian (Guantánamo Diary)
Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Maytrees

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Maze of Bones
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Maze Runner
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The McDonaldization of Society
George Ritzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Meanest Doll in the World (Doll People, #2)
Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Meaning of Life
Terry Eagleton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007