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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

A Mango-Shaped Space
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Man Said to the Universe
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1899

A Man Who Had No Eyes
MacKinlay Kantor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

A Map of Home
Randa Jarrar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1940

A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Mercy
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Message to Garcia
Elbert Hubbard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1899

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

A Miracle for Breakfast
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

A Model of Christian Charity
John Winthrop

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1729

A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Arshay Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Mother In Mannville
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A Mystery Of Heroism
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

Maame
Jessica George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Macbeth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Mac Flecknoe
John Dryden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1682

Machete Season
Jean Hatzfeld

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Machinal
Sophie Treadwell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
Stephanie Land

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Make Lemonade
Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 1993

Makes Me Wanna Holler
Nathan McCall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
William H. Mcraven

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Make Your Home Among Strangers
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Making a Fist
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1988

Making Bombs for Hitler
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mama Day
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Mañanaland
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Man and His Symbols
C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Man And Superman
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1903

Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965

Manfred
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1817

Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Manifestoes of Surrealism
Transl. Richard Seaver, Transl. Helen R. Lane, André Breton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924

Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Gail Bederman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Man of La Mancha
Dale Wasserman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1731

Mansfield Park
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Man's Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Brian Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Maps of Meaning
Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

March
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

March: Books 2 & 3
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2016

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Marianela
Benito Perez Galdos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Martin Eden
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

Maru
Bessie Head

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Mary Jane
Jessica Anya Blau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1934

Masks
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Master and Man
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1895

Masterminds
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Masterpiece
Elise Broach

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Matched
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Matilda
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Matrix
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Maurice
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Maus
Art Spiegelman

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

Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

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 Someday
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Me and the Mule
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020