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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 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 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 Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Naked And The Dead
Norman Mailer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Name of the Game Was Murder
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Natural
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Nazi Officer's Wife
Edith Hahn Beer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Need
Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Nest
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The New Kids
Brooke Hauser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The New New Thing
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The News about Dinosaurs
Patricia Lauber

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The New Science of Learning
Terry Doyle, Todd Zakrajsek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The New Yorkers
Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

The Night Bird
Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Night Gardener
George Pelecanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Night in Question
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

The Night the Bed Fell
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1933

The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Noise of Time
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The North Water: A Novel
Ian Mcguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Odd Women
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriot
Clara Ingram Judson

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Old Gringo
Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Old Regime and The French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1856

The One Safe Place
Tania Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Only Alien on the Planet
Kristen D. Randle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Only Story
Julian Barnes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Orange Houses
Paul Griffin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Orchardist
Amanda Coplin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Daniel K. Richter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Orenda
Joseph Boyden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Organic Machine
Richard White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Orphan's Tale
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Other Side
Juan Pablo Villalobos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2019

The Other Side of Dark
Sarah Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

The Other Side of Silence
Ted Allbeury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Other Side of the Island
Allegra Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Outlander
Gil Adamson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Outstation
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

The Overton Window
Glenn Beck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Owl Service
Alan Garner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Ox Bow Incident
Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Painted Girls
Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Painter
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Painter from Shanghai
Jennifer Cody Epstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Paladin Prophecy
Mark Frost

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Passion of Artemisia
Susan Vreeland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Path
Michael Puett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Patriot Threat
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Peach Keeper
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The People's Platform
Astra Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Peppermint Pig
Nina Bawden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Perfume Collector
Kathleen Tessaro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Perilous Road
William O. Steele

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Photographer
Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Frédéric Lemercier

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Physicists
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001