Nora Roberts’s novel Mind Games (2024) is a work that combines the romance, thriller, and mystery-fiction genres and contains supernatural elements. Set in a fictional rural community in Kentucky, it follows game designer Thea Fox in the aftermath of her parents’ brutal murders as she struggles with her psychic abilities, which link her not only to her family’s dark matriarchal legacy but also to Ray Riggs, her parents’ killer. As Thea learns to open herself... Read Mind Games Summary

Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler, published in 1977 by Doubleday & Company Inc., is the second novel in the Patternist series. The novel is a work of science fiction and Afrofuturism, following Mary, a telepath, as she establishes the Pattern, which connects telepaths together. Mind of My Mind also follows Doro, the immortal who uses a selective breeding process to cultivate telepaths. Doro leads the prequel, Wild Seed, as he fights for... Read Mind of My Mind Summary

Miracle’s Boys (2000) is a young adult novel by Jaqueline Woodson. The novel tells the story of three brothers, ages 21, 15, and 12, coping with the sudden death of their mother a year before. The middle brother, Charlie, recently returned home from a juvenile detention facility, where he was serving a two-year sentence for attempting to rob a candy store at gun point. Set in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City, Miracle’s... Read Miracle's Boys Summary

Written by Virginia Sorensen in 1956 and illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush, Miracles on Maple Hill is a children’s novel that traces one year in the life of 10-year-old Marly and her family as they move from the bustling city of Pittsburg to the idyllic peace of a cottage in the woods near Maple Hill. Marly hopes that moving to Maple Hill will be a miracle cure for her father’s lingering depression and anxiety... Read Miracles on Maple Hill Summary

Jacob Portman believes he is ordinary and is fascinated with his extraordinary grandfather, Abraham Portman, during his childhood years. Grandpa Portman introduces Jacob to interesting stories about monsters and unusual pictures of peculiar children. As a child, Abraham escaped Nazi Germany to Wales, where he lived in a house with other children under the guidance of Headmistress Peregrine.The older Jacob becomes, however, the more disbelief he has toward his grandfather’s stories. Similarly, Jacob’s family thinks... Read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Summary

Misty of Chincoteague, a classic children’s novel, was written in 1947 by Marguerite Henry. She developed a love of literature and writing when a bout of rheumatic fever at the age of six prevented her from attending school for the next six years. At age 11, she wrote and sold her first story to a magazine for $12.Henry was born and raised in Wisconsin but became interested in writing about Chincoteague ponies after a recommendation... Read Misty of Chincoteague Summary

Eloise Jarvis McGraw’s young adult historical novel, Moccasin Trail (1952), was named a Newbery Honor Book in 1953. Set in the Oregon Territory in 1844, the adventure story follows 19-year-old Jim Keath, a young man of white parentage who spent six years living among the Crow people after they rescued him following a grizzly bear attack. When a letter summons him to help his long-lost pioneer siblings journey to the Willamette Valley, Jim must navigate... Read Moccasin Trail Summary

Widely praised by readers, educators, and parents’ groups alike, Kathryn Erskine’s young adult novel Mockingbird (2010) explores the emotional and psychological growth of Caitlin Smith, a precocious 10-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome who struggles to understand the implications of the recent death of her older brother in a school shooting. Caitlin is the novel’s first-person narrator, and the novel gained recognition for its sensitive portrayal of the minds of those on the autism spectrum as Caitlin... Read Mockingbird Summary

Mockingbird Summer is a historical coming-of-age novel by American author Lynda Rutledge published in 2024. The story takes place in 1964 in a small, segregated town in rural Texas during the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement. The novel examines racial segregation in the 1960s Jim Crow South through the lens of Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, allowing Rutledge to interrogate the cultural changes of the 1960s, racism, the power of friendship and... Read Mockingbird Summer Summary

Dusti Bowling’s middle-grade novel, Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (2019), follows 14-year-old Aven Green as she attempts to “slay the sucktastic beast known as high school” (146). Starting high school is tough for anyone, but for Aven, who was born without arms, it poses even bigger challenges. There are the everyday obstacles that people with arms do not even consider—like the vending machine where the best snacks are out of reach—but even... Read Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus Summary

Mom & Me & Mom is a memoir by African American author Maya Angelou, originally published in 2013. The book is the seventh installment in Angelou’s series of seven autobiographies. The novel centers on her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter. It chronicles the development of their bonding, from Vivian’s abandonment of Angelou and her brother, Bailey Jr., to Angelou’s reunion and reconciliation with her.Angelou was an acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist, professor, and civil rights... Read Mom & Me & Mom Summary

Mona’s Eyes (2024) is a work of literary fiction by the French art historian Thomas Schlesser. The novel tells the story of 10-year-old Mona’s relationship with her grandfather, Henry (Dadé). One day, Mona experiences an inexplicable bout of temporary blindness which terrifies her parents and grandfather. Her doctor insists she is in good health but explains that she will need psychological counseling should she later lose her sight completely. Dadé decides to take her on... Read Mona's Eyes Summary

Money Hungry is a 2001 middle-grade novel by American author Sharon G. Flake published by Little, Brown and Company. A Coretta Scott King Honor book, Money Hungry is the first book in Flake’s Raspberry Hill series. It explores 13-year-old Raspberry Hill’s hunger for money and the lengths to which she will go to acquire it. Stemming from a period of homelessness in her childhood, Raspberry will do almost anything to earn enough money to move... Read Money Hungry Summary

Monstrilio (2023) is a debut literary horror novel by Mexican artist and writer Gerardo Sámano Córdova. When 11-year-old Santiago dies, his mother, Magos, cuts his body open and removes a piece of his lung, which she keeps in a jar and feeds until it grows into a furry, carnivorous monster called Monstrilio. Magos, her husband, Joseph, and her best friend, Lena, quickly bond with the creature, despite its voracious appetite for flesh. Eventually, Monstrilio develops... Read Monstrilio Summary

Moo (2016) is a coming-of-age novel by Sharon Creech. Moo, which uses a mixture of prose and poetry, follows 12-year-old Reena—the protagonist and narrator—and her family as they move to coastal Maine from New York City. Over the course of a few months, Reena and her family adjust to life in their new environment. They meet an eccentric older woman, Mrs. Falala, and her menagerie of animals. Reena takes responsibility for Mrs. Falala’s cow, Zora... Read Moo Summary

Moon of the Turning Leaves (2023) is a post-apocalyptic novel by Anishinaabe author Waubgeshig Rice. The book is the sequel to Rice’s acclaimed 2018 novel, Moon of the Crusted Snow, which examines a northern Anishinaabe community’s experience after an unidentified apocalypse. This second novel, set more than a decade after the worldwide power outage, follows the Shki-dnakiiwin community as they face dwindling resources. To secure a future for the next generation, a small party led... Read Moon of the Turning Leaves Summary

Moon Over Manifest is a 2010 novel by author Claire Vanderpool. It relates the story of 12-year-old Abilene Tucker, a drifting girl in search of her father, a home, and a sense of belonging. When the novel starts, her father, Gideon Tucker, has just sent Abilene to the Kansas town of Manifest, claiming that he can’t take her to Iowa, where he is allegedly taking a railroad job. It is 1936, and the Great Depression... Read Moon Over Manifest Summary

Published in 1989, Moon Palace is a postmodern novel by American author Paul Auster. The novel follows Marco Stanley Fogg, an erudite young New Yorker who falls into the company of various benefactors, from his uncle, a traveling musician named Victor, to a historian named Solomon Barber. These encounters lead Fogg to discover the long-kept secrets about his parentage and the ways in which chance leads him to better understand himself.Best known for penning a... Read Moon Palace Summary

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is the sequel to Satoshi Yagisawa’s Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. The novel was originally published in Japanese in 2011 by Shogakukan, Inc., and was published by Harper Perennial in English in 2024. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop directly follows the events of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. Takako explores the dynamics of her new relationship with Wada, and Takako, her uncle Satoru, and his wife, Momoko, face... Read More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop Summary

Anna Quindlen’s 2025 novel, More Than Enough, follows protagonist Polly through a midlife crisis of identity. As Polly deals with infertility, her father’s dementia, shocking family secrets, and the illness of her best friend, the novel explores themes of Identity as a Lifelong Negotiation, The Many Faces of Motherhood, and Relationships as a Source of Support. Through these lenses, Quindlen examines how personal history, chosen relationships, and unexpected change transform a person’s understanding of themselves.Quindlen... Read More Than Enough Summary