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The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605

The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

The Master Puppeteer
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Maze of Bones
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Medusa and the Snail
Lewis Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Melting Pot
Maria Kaneva-Johnson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Memory Chalet
Tony Judt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Memory of Light
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Memory of Running
Ron McLarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Memory Palace
Mira Bartok

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Men of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Mephisto Club
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Imogen Hermes Gowar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

The Messenger
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Middle Passage
Tom Feelings

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1995

The Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Midwife's Apprentice
Karen Cushman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Milk of Birds
Sylvia Whitman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Mimic Men
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Minds of Billy Milligan
Daniel Keyes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1981

The Misanthrope
Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1666

The Miserable Mill
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Mitten
Jan Brett

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1989

The Mockingbird Next Door
Marja Mills

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Monk and the Riddle
Randy Komisar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Monogram Murders
Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Monstrumologist
Rick Yancey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Monument
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

The Monuments Men
Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1868

The Moorchild
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Morgue and Me
John C. Ford

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Most Human Human
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Mothers
Brit Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Moths and Other Stories
Helena Maria Viramontes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

The Mountain Between Us
Charles Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Moves Make the Man
Bruce Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

The Murder of the Century
Paul Collins

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Music of Chance
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1870

The Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957