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Maus
Art Spiegelman

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

Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Maya and the Robot
Eve L. Ewing, Illustr. Christine Almeda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

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

Mean Spirit
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Measuring Up
Lily LaMotte, Illustr. Ann Xu

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Me Before You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Medea
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 49

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Medicine River
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Meditation 17
John Donne

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1630

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 180

Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1641

Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Meg Merrilies
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Mementos, 1
W. D. Snodgrass

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Memory Man
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Mencius
Mencius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Mending Wall
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Men Explain Things To Me
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Meno
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Men of Iron
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1891

Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

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

Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

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

Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1952

Messenger
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Messenger
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Metamorphoses
Ovid

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

Metaphysics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Methland
Nick Reding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mexican WhiteBoy
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

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 At The Blackbird Cafe
Heather Webber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Williams Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Midsummer XXVII
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Jason Reynolds

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

Milkman
Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Million Dollar Throw
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Miracle At Philadelphia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Miracle Creek
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Miracle's Boys
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Mirror
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Misery
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Miss Hinch
Henry Sydnor Harrison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Modern Fiction
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1925