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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

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 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

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
Walter Tevis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

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

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Allan Greer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
Candace B. Pert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Molloy
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure (Molly Moon, #3)
Georgia Byng

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Georgia Byng

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Molly Bloom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Moloka'i
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1976

Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser, Transl. Hildegarde Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Monday Mourning
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Money
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
William D. Cohan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Money Hungry
Sharon G. Flake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Tony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Money Shot (Angel Dare #1)
Christa Faust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008