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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

James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

My Dark Romeo

Parker S. Huntington, L. J. Shen

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 Half-Night Stand

Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 Friend Flicka

Mary O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1941

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 Husband's Wife

Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

My Kinsman Major Molineux

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1831

My Lady Jane

Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows

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

My Name Is Emilia del Valle

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

My Name is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Name Is Not Easy

Debby Dahl Edwardson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Name is Red

Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Next Breath: A Memoir

Jeremy Renner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

My Oedipus Complex

Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1950

My Own Words

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

My Oxford Year: A Novel

Julia Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Papa's Waltz

Theodore Roethke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

My Return to the Walter Boys

Ali Novak

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

My Roommate Is a Vampire

Jenna Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

My Sister's Grave

Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park

Aaron Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Mystic River

Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Myth

Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Edith Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1942

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop

Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

My Year of Meats

Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Nada

Carmen Laforet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Naked

David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

Charles Wheelan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Charles Wheelan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Names/Nombres

Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Naming and Necessity

Saul Kripke

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Nana

Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1845

Nash Falls

David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Nathan the Wise

Gotthold Lessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1779

Native Son

Richard Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Native Speaker

Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1836

Nature

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1878

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Navigating Early

Clare Vanderpool

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Necessary Lies

Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Necessary Roughness

Marie G. Lee, Marie Myung-Ok Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

Drew Gilpin Faust

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Necessities of Life

Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Nectar in a Sieve

Kamala Markandaya

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Needful Things

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

Jan Tomasz Gross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Neighbour Rosicky

Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult