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A Madness So Discreet
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Man Called Horse
Dorothy M. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

A Man Like Smith
Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

A Man's World
Donald McRae

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Matter of Malice
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Meeting In The Dark
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

A Memory of Light
Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Midnight Clear
William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Million Junes
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

A Mirror Mended
Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2022

A Month of Summer
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

A Morbid Taste For Bones
Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Mother's Reckoning
Sue Klebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

A Municipal Report
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

A Murder in Virginia
Suzanne Lebsock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Machine Man
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1893

Maggie Moves On
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Magic Lessons
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Magna Carta Libertatum
Stephen Langton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1215

Maid for Each Other
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1905

Make Me
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Make Room! Make Room!
Harry Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Makers and Takers
Rana Foroohar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Making Ideas Happen
Scott Belsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Malgudi Days
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1943

Mama Lola
Karen McCarthy Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Mama's Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Mammon and the Archer
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Managing the Professional Service Firm
David H. Maister

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Man of the People
Alonzo L. Hamby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Man's Fate
Andre Malraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Mantissa
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Kate Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Many Waters
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Mao II
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Mapping the Interior
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2017

Maps for Lost Lovers
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Marching for Freedom
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mare's War
Tanita S. Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Maria's Girls
Jerome Charyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Mariette In Ecstasy
Ron Hansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Marked
Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Markheim
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
Stephanie Coontz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Marriage is a Private Affair
Judith Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1786

Marse Chan: The Tale of Old Virginia
Thomas Nelson Page

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1887

Martha Quest
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Martyn Pig
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Marxism and Literature
Raymond Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Mary Coin
Marisa Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mary Reilly
Valerie Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Mascot
Charles Waters, Traci Sorell

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Masquerade
O. O. Sangoyomi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Masters of Disaster
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Matchmaking for Beginners
Maddie Dawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mateo Falcone
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1829

Mathilda Savitch
Victor Lodato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Matigari
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Esther Perel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Matryona's House
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1963

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mattering
Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Maxed Out
James D. Scurlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Maximum City
Suketu Mehta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Maya's Notebook: A Novel
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Meadowland
John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Me and Orson Welles
Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mean Genes
Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999