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Magpie

Elizabeth Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Maid for Each Other

Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Maintenance of Everything: Part One

Stewart Brand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Majesty

Katharine Mcgee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1905

Make Me

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Make Nice

Ryan Effgen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Make Room! Make Room!

Harry Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Makers and Takers

Rana Foroohar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Make Time

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Making Globalization Work

Joseph Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Making Ideas Happen

Scott Belsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Making Money

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Making Peace With What I Can't Control

Lysa TerKeurst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Malas

Marcela Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Manning Marable

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Malgudi Days

R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1943

Malice

Heather Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Malone Dies

Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Malorie

Josh Malerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mama Lola

Karen McCarthy Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Mama's Bank Account

Kathryn Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Mammon and the Archer

O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Managing Oneself

Peter Drucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Managing the Professional Service Firm

David H. Maister

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

William Bridges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Man Alive

Thomas Page McBee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Mandy

Julie Andrews Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

Manhattan Transfer

John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Man of the People

Alonzo L. Hamby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Man Overboard!

Kathleen Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Man's Fate

Andre Malraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Mantissa

John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Kate Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Ira Berlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Mao II

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

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

Marjorie Morningstar

Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

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 & Malcolm & America

James H. Cone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Martyn Pig

Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Marxism and Literature

Raymond Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mary Anne Saves the Day

Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

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

Mastering the Market Cycle

Howard Marks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Masters of the Dew

Jacques Roumain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Master Your Emotions

Thibaut Meurisse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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

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

Max in the Land of Lies

Adam Gidwitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

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

Mayluna

Kelley McNeil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

May We Feed the King

Rebecca Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

M.C. Higgins, the Great

Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974