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My Brother Jack
George Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

My Brother's Keeper
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

My Darling Dreadful Thing
Johanna Van Veen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

My Darling Girl
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Darling, My Hamburger
Paul Zindel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

My Dog Skip
Willie Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

My Dreadful Darling
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

My Education
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

MY Effin' LIFE
Geddy Lee With Daniel Richler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

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 | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
Rachel DeLoache Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Murder: A Novel
Katie Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Why
Lemn Sissay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2019

My Notorious Life
Kate Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Not So Perfect Life
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

My Other Heart
Emma Nanami Strenner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

My Own Country
Abraham Verghese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

My Policeman
Bethan Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
Stephen Fry

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

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

My Uncle Oswald
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

My Utmost for His Highest
Oswald Chambers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924

The Machine in the Garden
Leo Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

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
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Magician
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Magician King
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Magician of Lublin
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Magician's Land
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2011

The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Magnificent 12: The Call
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Magnolia Story
Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines, Mark Dagostino

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Making of a Navy SEAL
Brandon Webb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Beth Allison Barr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Maniac
Benjamín Labatut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Man in My Basement
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

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 Feeling
Henry MacKenzie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1771

The Man of Property
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Man the Moment Demands
Jason Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Manticore
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

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

The Mapmakers
John Noble Wilford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The March
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Mark
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Martyred
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964