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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

Medea

Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 49

Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

Joy-Ann Reid

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Meeting at Night

Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Meet Me at the Lake

Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring

Angela Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Meg Merrilies

John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Melania

Melania Trump

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Mementos, 1

W. D. Snodgrass

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

C. G. Jung, Ed. Aniela Jaffé, Transl. Richard Winston, Transl. Clara Winston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Memory Man

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Memory Wall

Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Mending Wall

Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Men Explain Things To Me

Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Men Have Called Her Crazy

Anna Marie Tendler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Meno

Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Men of Iron

Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1891

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

Laura Bates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Message In A Bottle

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Metal Slinger

Rachel Schneider

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Metamorphoses

Ovid

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

Metaphysics

Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

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

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

Pedro Martín

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Michael Without Apology

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Mickey7

Edward Ashton

Fiction | Novel | Adult

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 of the Night

Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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 at the Electric

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Midnight Black

Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Midnight for Charlie Bone: The Children of the Red King #1

Jenny Nimmo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

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 Magic

Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Midnight Rider

Joan Hiatt Harlow

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

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

Midwives

Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miko Kings

LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mildred Pierce

James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Mile High (Windy City, #1)

Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Miles Morales: Spider-Man

Jason Reynolds

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

Miles Morales Suspended

Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Milkman

Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Millionaires for the Month

Stacy McAnulty

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

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

Mind Games

Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Mind of My Mind

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life

Theodor W. Adorno

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1951

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

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus

Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Miracles: A Preliminary Study

C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1947

Miracle's Boys

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996