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Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Mapping the Interior
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2017

Maps for Lost Lovers
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Marching for Freedom
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mare's War
Tanita S. Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Megan Milks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Maria's Girls
Jerome Charyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles
Kathryn Lasky

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Mariette In Ecstasy
Ron Hansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Marked
Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Marketing 4.0
Philip Kotler, Iwan Setiawan, Hermawan Kartajaya

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Markheim
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
Stephanie Coontz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Marriage is a Private Affair
Judith Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1786

Marse Chan: The Tale of Old Virginia
Thomas Nelson Page

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1887

Martha
Diana Wallis Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Martha Quest
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Martyn Pig
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Marxism and Literature
Raymond Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Mary Coin
Marisa Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mary Reilly
Valerie Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Mascot
Charles Waters, Traci Sorell

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Masquerade
O. O. Sangoyomi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Master of Salt & Bones
Keri Lake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Masters of Disaster
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Matchmaking for Beginners
Maddie Dawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Matchmaking for Psychopaths
Tasha Coryell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Mateo Falcone
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1829

Mathilda Savitch
Victor Lodato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Matigari
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Matryona's House
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1963

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mattering
Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Maxed Out
James D. Scurlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Maximum City
Suketu Mehta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Maya's Notebook: A Novel
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

M.C. Higgins, the Great
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Me
Elton John

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Meadowland
John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Me and Orson Welles
Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mean Genes
Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Mean Moms
Emma Rosenblum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Meant to Be
Emily Giffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Med Head
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Medical Nemesis
Ivan Illich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Meditation
Osho

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
Marcus J. Borg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Meet Me in the Margins
Melissa Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Meet the Austins
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1925

Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Memed, My Hawk
Yashar Kemal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Memorial
Bryan Washington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Memory of Departure
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Me, Myself and Us
Brian R. Little

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Rhoda Janzen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Mercies in Disguise
Gina Kolata

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Mercy
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mercy
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Meridian
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Merle's Door
Ted Kerasote

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Mermaids 13
John L. French

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

MetaMaus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Metropolis
Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mexico: The Cookbook
Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Michael Vey
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Ross King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Michel Foucault
Didier Eribon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Microbe Hunters
Paul De Kruif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Thomas Schelling

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Middle of Nowhere
Caroline Adderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Midnight Assassin
Patricia L. Bryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
Fleur Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020