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Minnie's Sacrifice
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Minor Detail
Adania Shibli, Transl. Elisabeth Jaquette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Minor Feelings: a Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
Cathy Park Hong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Minutes to Kill
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mio, My Son
Astrid Lindgren, Ilon Wikland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Miracle at the Plate (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)
Matt Christopher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Miracle Creek
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Miracle in the Andes
Nando Parrado, Vince Rause

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Miracle on 34th Street
Valentine Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Miracle's Boys
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Mirage City
Lev A. C. Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Mirage (Mirage, #1)
Somaiya Daud

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Miriam
Aimée Sommerfelt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

Mirror Mirror
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Dorthe Nors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Eduardo Galeano

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

Misbehaving
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mischling
Affinity Konar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Ilse Koehn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Misericordia
Benito Pérez Galdós

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Misery
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Misguided Angel
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Miss Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)
D.E. Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Miss Burma
Charmaine Craig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Miss Garnet's Angel
Salley Vickers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Miss Grief and Other Stories
Constance Fenimore Woolson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2016

Miss Hickory
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1946

Miss Iceland
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady, #19)
J.A. Jance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Missing May
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Martin J. Blaser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Missing, Presumed
Susie Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Missing You
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mission Critical (Gray Man, #8)
Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
Hal Clement

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

Mississippi Blood
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mississippi Bridge (Logans, #4.5)
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

Miss Marple's Final Cases
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1979

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

Miss Mole
E.H. Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Miss New India
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
Ellen MacGregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Miss Pym Disposes
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
Sarah Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Mistaken Identity
Alyssa J. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Mister Magic
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Mister Monday
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Mister Moneybags
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mister Monkey
Francine Prose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mister O
Lauren Blakely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistletoe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #1)
Leslie Meier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Mistral's Daughter
Judith Krantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Mistral's Kiss
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistress
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mistress of All Evil (Villains, #4)
Serena Valentino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Mistress Of The Art Of Death
Ariana Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mistress of the Bones
Patricia Marie Janeshutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mistress of the Empire
Janny Wurts, Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mistress of the Ritz
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Mixed Signals
B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mizora: A World of Women (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
Mary E. Bradley Lane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Moccasin Trail
Eloise Mcgraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Charles J. Shields

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Mockingbird Summer
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Model Home
Eric Puchner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century
Helen Zoe Veit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Modern Girls
Jennifer S. Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Modernism: Designing a New World
Christopher Wilk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Modern Lovers
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015