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Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mothers
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Mother Tongue
Amy Tan

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1990

Mother to Son
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Mowing
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Moxie
Jennifer Mathieu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

Mr. Dickens And His Carol
Samantha Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mr. Grumpledump's Song
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Mr Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mr. Mistoffelees
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, Rodrigo Corral

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mr. Popper's Penguins
Florence Atwater, Richard Atwater

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mrs. Everything
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Betty MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
Olivia Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mrs. Sen's
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Mrs Spring Fragrance
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1912

Mr Stink
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mrs. Wiggins
Mary Monroe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mr. Terupt Falls Again
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Mr. Wrong Number
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ms. Bixby's Last Day
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

M Train
Patti Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Much Madness is divinest Sense—
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Mudbound
Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Muggie Maggie
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1935

Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Murder Road
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Musui's Story
Transl. Teruko Craig, Illustr. Hiroshige Utagawa, Katsu Kokichi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1843

Mutability
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

My Antonia
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Best Friend's Exorcism
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
Reymundo Sanchez

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1855

My Brilliant Career
Miles (Stella) Franklin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1901

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

My Broken Language: A Memoir
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Brother Sam Is Dead
Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

My Dark Romeo
L. J. Shen, Parker S. Huntington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

My Dear Hamilton
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

my dream about being white
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
Erica Moroz, Diane Guerrero

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

My Father's Hats
Mark Irwin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

My Father's Love Letters
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

My Father's Song
Simon J. Ortiz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

My Fault
Mercedes Ron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

My Favorite Chaperone
Jean Davies Okimoto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris

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

My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

My Friends
Hisham Matar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

My Friends
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts
Resmaa Menakem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

My Husband
Maud Ventura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Kinsman Major Molineux
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1831

My Lady Jane
Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Last Duchess
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

My Life as a Book
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Indra Nooyi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Amos Tutuola

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

My Life with the Walter Boys
Ali Novak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Life With the Wave
Octavio Paz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

My Losing Season
Pat Conroy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

My Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

My Love Sent Me a List
Olena Kalytiak Davis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

My Name Is Barbra
Barbra Streisand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023