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Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
Judy Fong Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Midnight Crossroad
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Midwives
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Mila 18
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mink River
Brian Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mischling
Affinity Konar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Missing, Presumed
Susie Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mississippi Blood
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Miss New India
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mistaken Identity
Alyssa J. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistress Of The Art Of Death
Ariana Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mistress of the Bones
Patricia Marie Janeshutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Molloy
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Money
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Monkey Bridge
Lan Cao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Montana
Gwen Florio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Moonglow
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Gina B. Nahai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Morality Play
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

More Joy in Heaven
Morley Callaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

More Than an Echo
Linda Kay Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mort
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Moscow 2042
Vladimir Voinovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mothers and Daughters
Rae Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Moving Day
Terence Young

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Mozart's Sister
Nancy Moser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mr. Vertigo
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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 on a Kibbutz
Batya Gur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Music of the Ghosts
Vaddey Ratner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Brother Jack
George Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

My Education
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Enemy's Cradle
Sara Young (Pennypacker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Natchez Burning
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Necessary Lies
Eva Stachniak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Netherland
Joseph O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

New Times
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Next: A Novel
James Hynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Next to Normal
Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2008

Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Night Crossing
Don J. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Nightfall
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Night Sea Journey: A Tale of the Supernatural
Paula Cappa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Night Train
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Nightwoods
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nine Days
Toni Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

No One is Coming to Save Us
Stephanie Powell Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Noon Wine
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

No Place Like Rome
Julie Moffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Norwegian By Night
Derek B. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

No Survivors
Tom Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Notes on a Scandal
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Not in the Heart
Chris Fabry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Nutshell: A Novel
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Obasan
Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Odds Against
Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Of Love and Shadows
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Old Filth
Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

Omon Ra
Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

On a Pale Horse
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

On Black Sisters Street
Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On Borrowed Time
Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a River
Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

One For The Money
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One Good Dog
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Turn
Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One Minute to Midnight
Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One Thousand White Women
Jim Fergus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

One True Thing
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One-Way
Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

On the Water
H.M. van den Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002