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Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Memed, My Hawk
Yashar Kemal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Mercies in Disguise
Gina Kolata

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Meridian
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Mermaids 13
John L. French

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Message In A Bottle
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

MetaMaus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Metaphysics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Metropolis
Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mexico: The Cookbook
Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Michael Vey
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Ross King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Michel Foucault
Didier Eribon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Microbe Hunters
Paul De Kruif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

Middle of Nowhere
Caroline Adderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Midnight Assassin
Patricia L. Bryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
Judy Fong Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Midnight at the Electric
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Midnight Crossroad
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Midnight in Broad Daylight
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Midnight Oil
V. S. Pritchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Midwives
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Mighty Be Our Powers
Leymah Gbowee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Miguel Street
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1959

Mila 18
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Mind Hacking
John Hargrave

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Mindwise
Nicholas Epley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Mink River
Brian Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Miracle At Philadelphia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Miracle's Boys
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Miriam
Aimée Sommerfelt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

Mischling
Affinity Konar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Missing May
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Missing, Presumed
Susie Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mississippi Blood
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Miss New India
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Missoula
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mistaken Identity
Alyssa J. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistress Of The Art Of Death
Ariana Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mistress of the Bones
Patricia Marie Janeshutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Allan Greer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Molloy
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1976

Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Money
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Monkey Bridge
Lan Cao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Monster Book
Alice Hoogstad

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2008

Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Montana
Gwen Florio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Moonglow
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Gina B. Nahai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Morality Play
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Moral Politics
George Lakoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

More Joy in Heaven
Morley Callaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

More Than an Echo
Linda Kay Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

More Than Human
Ramez Naam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Mornings on Horseback
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1981

Mort
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Mosaic
Diane Armstrong

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Moscow 2042
Vladimir Voinovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Moses and Monotheism
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mother California
Kenneth E. Hartman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

Mothers and Daughters
Rae Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mothers and Others
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Mothers of Invention
Drew Gilpin Faust

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Mountain of Gold
Betty Lee Sung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1931

Move Your Shadow
Joseph Lelyveld

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Moving Among Strangers
Gabrielle Carey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Moving Day
Terence Young

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021