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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 Magic
Rhonda Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Thief
Sarah Prineas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

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 Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Julie Zhuo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Making of a Navy SEAL
Brandon Webb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Marriage Pact
Michelle Richmond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Marsh King's Daughter
Karen Dionne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Martyred
Richard E. Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Marvels
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Iain McGilchrist

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

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 Masterpiece
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

The Master Puppeteer
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Match
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The Matchmaker's Gift
Lynda Cohen Loigman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Mating Game
Lana Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Matzah Ball
Jean Meltzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 | Essay Collection | 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 Collectors
Dete Meserve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Menagerie
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Mephisto Club
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Merchant of Death
D.J. MacHale

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

The Merciless Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Merge
Grace Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Messenger
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Messy Lives of Book People
Phaedra Patrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Middlesteins
Jami Attenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Midnight Bargain
C.L. Polk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Midnight Club
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Midnight Line
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Milk of Birds
Sylvia Whitman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
Kate Mckinnon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

The Mime Order
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Mimic Men
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Mindf*ck Series
S. T. Abby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019