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Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Elizabeth Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

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 Is Easy
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Murder on a Kibbutz
Batya Gur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
Roy Peter Clark

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Muse of Nightmares
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

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's Keeper
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

My Darling, My Hamburger
Paul Zindel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

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 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 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 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

My Uncle Oswald
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

My Utmost for His Highest
Oswald Chambers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924

Nadja
Andre Breton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Naked in Death
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Names for the Sea
Sarah Moss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Nancy Drew Mystery Series
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Natchez Burning
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Nation
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Akala

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
William Paley

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1802

Nearly Gone
Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Near the Bone
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Necessary Lies
Eva Stachniak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Necessary Losses
Judith Viorst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Margaret Atwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Negroland
Margo Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2013

Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nesting
Roisín O'Donnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Netherland
Joseph O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

NeuroTribes
Steve Silberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Never Ever After
Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Nevermore
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Never Stop Walking
Christina Rickardsson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Never the Roses
Jennifer K. Lambert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

New Grub Street
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

News of a Kidnapping
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

New Times
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017