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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 Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Mistakes We Never Made

Hannah Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mistakes Were Made

Stephan Pastis

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

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

Moccasin Trail

Eloise Mcgraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

Mockingbird

Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mockingbird Summer

Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Modern Fiction

Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1925

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Moloka'i

Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus

Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Mom & Me & Mom

Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Mona's Eyes

Thomas Schlesser, Transl. Hildegarde Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Monday's Not Coming

Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Money Hungry

Sharon G. Flake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

Kris Holloway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China

Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Arthur Waley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

Monkey Beach

Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Monroe Doctrine

James Monroe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1823

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

Monster

Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Montaigne: Selected Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1592

Montana 1948

Larry Watson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1993

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

Monument 14

Emmy Laybourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Moo: A Novel

Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Moonflower Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Moon of the Crusted Snow

Waubgeshig Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Moon Palace

Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Moon Witch, Spider King

Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

More Happy Than Not

Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

More or Less Maddy: A Novel

Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

William Julius Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

More Than This

Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Morning Girl

Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Morning Glory Milking Farm

C.M. Nascosta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Morning in the Burned House

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Mornings in Jenin

Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Morning Song

Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Morning Star

Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Mosquitoland

David Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mossflower

Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere

Savannah Guthrie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Most of All You: A Love Story

Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mother, A Cradle to Hold Me

Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

Mother Daughter Murder Night

Nina Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mothering Sunday

Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Richard Atwater, Florence 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