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Midnight At The Blackbird Cafe
Heather Webber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

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

Milkman
Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mind of My Mind
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Miracle Creek
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Miracle's Boys
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Misery
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mistakes We Never Made
Hannah Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mockingbird Summer
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Moloka'i
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

Montana 1948
Larry Watson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1993

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 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

Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | 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 Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mr. Dickens And His Carol
Samantha Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mr Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mrs. Everything
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mrs. Wiggins
Mary Monroe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mr. Wrong Number
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mudbound
Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

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

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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 Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris

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

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 Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Husband
Maud Ventura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Red
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Roommate Is a Vampire
Jenna Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Mystic River
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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 Lunch
William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Native Son
Richard Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Necessary Lies
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Needful Things
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Neon Gods
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Neuromancer
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Never
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Never Fall Down
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Never Lie
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Never Never
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2023

News of the World
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Next Year In Havana
Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Nightfall
Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Night Road
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Night Watch: A Novel
Jayne Anne Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Nightwatching
Tracy Sierra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Nightwood
Djuna Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936