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Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Marc Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Memoirs of My Life
Edward Gibbon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1796

Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War (Social History of Africa)
Joe Lunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Memorial Day
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C. G. Jung, Ed. Aniela Jaffé, Transl. Richard Winston, Transl. Clara Winston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Teffi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Memories of Midnight
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Memory in Death
J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Memory Man
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Memory of Water
Emmi Itäranta

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10)
Lois McMaster Bujold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Me (Moth)
Amber McBride

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2021

Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Men and Marriage
George Gilder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
John Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Men at Arms: The Play
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

Men at War
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1942

Men at Work
George F. Will

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Mencius
Mencius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
Ghassan Kanafani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Rhoda Janzen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Men of Iron
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1891

Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians (Pittsburgh Editions of Latin American Literature)
Miguel Ángel Asturias

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Men Without Women

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Men Without Women: Stories
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Mercies in Disguise
Gina Kolata

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Mercury
Hope Larson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mercury Pictures Presents
Anthony Marra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mercy
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Mercy Blade
Faith Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1952

Meridian
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Merle's Door
Ted Kerasote

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Merrick (The Vampire Chronicles, #7)
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Message In A Bottle
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Messenger
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Douglas R. Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

MetaMaus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Metamorphoses
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

Metaphors
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Metaphysics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Methland
Nick Reding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Metro Girl
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Metroland
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Metropolis
Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Metropolis (Bernie Gunther, #14)
Philip Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Metzengerstein
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1832

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mexican WhiteBoy
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Mexico
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mexico: The Cookbook
Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Pedro Martín

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Mhudi
Sol T. Plaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Miau
Benito Pérez Galdós

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1888

Micah
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Michael Jordan
Britannica Kids

Nonfiction | Biography | Published in 2020

Michael Jordan: The Life
Roland Lazenby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Michael Vey
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Ross King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Michel Foucault
Didier Eribon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
Edward Ashton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Micro
Michael Crichton, Richard Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Microbe Hunters
Paul De Kruif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

Micromégas and Other Short Fictions (Penguin Classics)
Voltaire

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1752

Microserfs
Douglas Coupland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3)
Jonathan Coe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Middlegame
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

Middle of Nowhere
Caroline Adderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Middle Passage
Charles R. Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
Chris Tebbetts, James Patterson, Illustr. Laura Park

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Midnight
Dave Stevenson, Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Midnight Alley
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007