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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

Mozart's Sister
Nancy Moser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mr. Splitfoot
Samantha Hunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Mrs. Warren's Profession
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

Mr. Vertigo
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Peter Robb

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Kathleen J. Greider

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Mulatto
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Murambi, The Book of Bones
Boubacar Boris Diop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Murder
David Halliday

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Murder as a Fine Art
David Morrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Murder on a Kibbutz
Batya Gur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Music of the Ghosts
Vaddey Ratner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Muslims and the Making of America
Amir Hussain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

My Abandonment
Peter Rock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

My Absolute Darling
Gabriel Tallent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Age of Anxiety
Scott Stossel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
Nie Jun

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

My Book of Life by Angel
Martine Leavitt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Brother Jack
George Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

My Brother's Keeper
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

My Darling, My Hamburger
Paul Zindel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

My Education
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Enemy's Cradle
Sara Young (Pennypacker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

My Escapee: Stories
Corinna Vallianatos

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1956

My Father's Paradise
Ariel Sabar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

My Friend Leonard
James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
Jennifer Teege

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

My Jim
Nancy Rawles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Left Foot
Christy Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1954

My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

My Life as a Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

My Life in France
Julia Child

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

My Lives
Edmund White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Lord The Baby
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

My Most Excellent Year
Steve Kluger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

My Name is Aram
William Saroyan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1940

My Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

My Name is Mary Sutter
Robin Oliveira

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Name is Parvana
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

My Own Country
Abraham Verghese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Sister Rosa
Justine Larbalestier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Soul is Rested
Howell Raines

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mysterious Kor
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Mystery at Lake Placid
Roy MacGregor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

My Thirteenth Winter
Samantha Abeel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

My Time Among the Whites
Jennine Capó Crucet

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Madman of Piney Woods
Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Madonna of Excelsior
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Madonnas of Leningrad
Debra Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Maestro
Tim Wynne-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Magician of Lublin
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Magician's Assistant
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Magus
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Making of a Navy SEAL
Brandon Webb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Man from New York
Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Mango Season
Amulya Malladi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Man in My Basement
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Mark Seal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Lucette Lagnado

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Man in the Woods
Rosemary Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

The Man of Mode
George Etherege

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1676

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Manticore
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Man Who Loved Clowns
June Rae Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Man Who Turned into a Stick
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1888

The Man Without a Face
Masha Gessen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930