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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
Dean R. Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Midnight Alley
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Midnight Assassin
Patricia L. Bryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
Fleur Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Midnight At The Blackbird Cafe
Heather Webber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Matthew J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
Judy Fong Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Midnight at the Electric
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Midnight Awakening
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Midnight Bayou
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Midnight Black
Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Midnight Blue
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Midnight Crossroad
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Midnight Exposure
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Midnight for Charlie Bone: The Children of the Red King #1
Jenny Nimmo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Midnight in Broad Daylight
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Paul French

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
Adam Schiff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
Ashley Winstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Midnight Magic
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Midnight Oil
V. S. Pritchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Midnight Rider
Joan Hiatt Harlow

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Midnight Ruin
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Midnight's Daughter
Karen Chance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Midnight Tides
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Williams Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Midwinter Break
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Midwives
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Mightier Than the Sword
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mighty Be Our Powers
Leymah Gbowee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miguel Street
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1959

Mika in Real Life
Emiko Jean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mike and Psmith (Psmith, #1)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Miko Kings
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mila 18
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Mile High (Windy City, #1)
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2017

Miles Morales Suspended
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Milk Fed
Melissa Broder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Milkman
Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Millennium
John Varley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Millionaires for the Month
Stacy McAnulty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Million Dollar Throw
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Millions: How Would You Spend a Million in Cash
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946

Minaret

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Mindbridge
Joe Haldeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment―and Your Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Mind Games
Carolyn Crane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mind Games (Mind Games, #1)
Teri Terry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mind Gym: Achieve More by Thinking Differently
Sebastian Bailey, Octavius Black

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Mind Hacking
John Hargrave

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mind Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Mind Self and Society
George H.; Morris Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Mindwise
Nicholas Epley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Mine
Robert R. McCammon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1990

Mine Till Midnight
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mine to Possess
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1951

Mini Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Min kamp 2
Karl Ove Knausgård

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mink River
Brian Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Minna von Barnhelm
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1767