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Mattimeo
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1989

Maude
Donna Foley Mabry

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Mauprat
George Sand, John Hobbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1837

Maurice
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Maus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Max
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Maxed Out
James D. Scurlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Maximum City
Suketu Mehta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Maximum Ride, Vol. 1
James Patterson, NaRae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Maya
C.W. Huntington Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Maya and the Robot
Eve L. Ewing, Illustr. Christine Almeda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Maya's Notebook: A Novel
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

May B.
Caroline Starr Rose

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2012

Maybe He Just Likes You
Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Maybe in Another Life
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Maybe Not
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2014

Maybe Now
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Maybe One Day
Debbie Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Maybe Someday
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Maybe This Time
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Mayday
Karen Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Mayflies
Andrew O'Hagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
Graham Greene

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1967

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: The Official Graphic Novel Prelude
James Dashner, Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

M.C. Higgins, the Great
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Me
Elton John

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Meadowland
John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Mean
Myriam Gurba

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Me and Marvin Gardens
Amy Sarig King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Me and My Little Brain (Great Brain, #3)
John D. Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Me and Orson Welles
Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla Saad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Mean Genes
Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Mean Girls
Micol Ostow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
Robert A. Caro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Mean Spirit
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Mean Streak
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Meant to Be
Lauren Morrill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Measuring Up
Lily LaMotte, Illustr. Ann Xu

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Me Before You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Meddling Kids
Edgar Cantero

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Medea
Christa Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Medea (Seneca)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 50

Med Head
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Medical Nemesis
Ivan Illich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Lauren Kassell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Medicine River
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Medicine Woman
Lynn V. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
Dan Harris, Jeff Warren, Carlye Adler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 180

Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1641

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Medusa
Jessie Burton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Me & Emma
Elizabeth Flock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Meet Cute
Helena Hunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet
Jennifer L. Armentrout, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Kass Morgan, Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi, Julie Murphy

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 2018

Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
Marcus J. Borg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Meet Me at the Museum
Anne Youngson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Meet Me Halfway
Lilian T. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Meet Me in Monaco
Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Meet Me in the Margins
Melissa Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Meet Me in the Middle
Alex Light

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Meet Samantha: An American Girl
Susan S. Adler, Dan Andreasen, Nancy Niles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1986

Meet the Austins
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Meet Your Match
Kandi Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
Angela Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Meg
Steve Alten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
Kate Brian

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1925

Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Melmoth
Sarah Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Melmoth the Wanderer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1820

Melonhead
Katy Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2)
J.T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Melville
Jean Giono

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Memed, My Hawk
Yashar Kemal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Memento Mori
Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Memnoch the Devil
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958