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Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Marionettes, Inc.
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Marked
Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Marked in Flesh
Anne Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Markheim
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

Mark of the Plague (The Blackthorn Key, #2)
Kevin Sands

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Mark of the Thief
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Marlena
Julie Buntin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Marley: A Dog Like No Other: A Special Adaptation for Young Readers
John Grogan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Marmion
Walter Scott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1808

Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2)
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Maroo of the Winter Caves
Ann Turnbull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

Marriage and Morals
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1929

Marriage for One
Ella Maise

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Marriage is a Private Affair
Judith Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1786

Marriage of Inconvenience
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Married by Morning
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Marrying Winterborne
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Marse Chan: The Tale of Old Virginia
Thomas Nelson Page

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1887

Marshlands
André Gide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1895

Marshmallow & Jordan
Alina Chau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Martha of California: A Story of the California Trail
James Otis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Martha Quest
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Martha Washington: An American Life
Patricia Brady

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Martian Time-Slip

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Martin Eden
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)
Brian Jacques, Gary Chalk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Martyn Pig
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Maru
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Marvel 1602
Andy Kubert, Richard Isanove, Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, Peter Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Marvels
Kurt Busiek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Marxism and Literary Criticism

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Marxism and Literature
Raymond Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mary: A Fiction
Mary Wollstonecraft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1788

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Mary Coin
Marisa Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mary Jane
Jessica Anya Blau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Mary, Mary
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Mary of Plymouth (Lost Classics Book Company)
James Otis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1934

Mary Poppins Comes Back (Mary Poppins, #2)
P.L. Travers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1935

Mary Queen of Scots

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

Mary Reilly
Valerie Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
Lita Judge

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 56)
Barbara Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1)
Richard Hooker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Masked Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Maskerade
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1995

Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Masquerade
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Ana Castillo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Master and Apprentice
Claudia Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Master Harold and the Boys
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1982

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Maria Konnikova

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Masterminds
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Master of the Senate
Robert A. Caro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Masterpiece
Elise Broach

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Masters of Death
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Masters of Disaster
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Michael A. McDonnell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Donald L. Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Masters of the Dew
Jacques Roumain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Mastery
Robert Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Mastiff
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Matched
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Matched: Bookpack Small Case
Allyson Braithwaite Condie

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Match Me If You Can
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Match Me If You Can (Sweet Mountain Air #1)
Tiana Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Mate
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Mateo Falcone
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1829

Mathilda Savitch
Victor Lodato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Matigari
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Matilda
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Mating
Norman Rush

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Matrix
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Matryona's House
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1963

Matter
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Matter and Memory
Henri Bergson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1896

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mattering
Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026