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Loveless
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Lovelight Farms
B. K. Borison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lovely One
Ketanji Brown Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Lovely War
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Love, Mom
Iliana Xander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth
Pamela Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Love Poem
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Love Poem With Toast
Miller Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Love Redesigned
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Love, Ruby Lavender
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Love Song
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Love Song for Alex, 1979
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

(Love Song, With Two Goldfish)
Grace Chua

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Love That Dog
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Loving Frank
Nancy Horan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Lu
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Luckiest Girl Alive
Jessica Knoll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Lucky
Marissa Stapley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Kirsten Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Lullaby
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

Lunch Money
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Lupita Manana
Patricia Beatty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Luster
Raven Leilani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Lycidas
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1638

Lyddie
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

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

Mad Mabel
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Madwoman
Chelsea Bieker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Maeve Fly
CJ Leede

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Magic Hour: A Novel
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Magnolia Parks
Jessa Hastings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
Chanel Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Magyk
Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Mahabharata
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Stephen Starring Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Maine Characters
Hannah Orenstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Main Street
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Lisa Yee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Malice
John Gwynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mama Day
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Laurie Kaye Abraham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

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

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

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

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
Viktor 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

Mara, Daughter of The Nile
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1953

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

Marble Hall Murders
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

March: Book Two
Andrew Aydin, John Lewis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Margo's Got Money Troubles
Rufi Thorpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024