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Mudbound
Hillary Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Muggie Maggie
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1935

Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Murder Road
Simone St. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Musée des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Musui's Story
Illustr. Hiroshige Utagawa, Transl. Teruko Craig, Katsu Kokichi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1843

Mutability
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

My Antonia
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Best Friend's Exorcism
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1855

My Brilliant Career
Miles (Stella) Franklin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1901

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

My Broken Language: A Memoir
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Brother Sam Is Dead
Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

My Dear Hamilton
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

my dream about being white
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
Diane Guerrero, Erica Moroz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

My Father's Hats
Mark Irwin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

My Father's Love Letters
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

My Father's Song
Simon J. Ortiz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

My Favorite Chaperone
Jean Davies Okimoto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts
Resmaa Menakem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

My Kinsman Major Molineux
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1831

My Last Duchess
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

My Life as a Book
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Indra Nooyi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Amos Tutuola

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

My Life With the Wave
Octavio Paz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

My Losing Season
Pat Conroy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

My Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

My Love Sent Me a List
Olena Kalytiak Davis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

My Name Is Barbra
Barbra Streisand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Name Is Not Easy
Debby Dahl Edwardson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Oedipus Complex
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1950

My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1942

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

My Roommate Is a Vampire
Jenna Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Mystic River
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Myth
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1942

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

My Year of Meats
Ruth Ozeki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Machine Stops
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

The Madonnas of Echo Park
Brando Skyhorse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1958

The Magic Finger
Roald Dahl, Illustr. Quentin Blake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1966

The Magic Fish
Trung Le Nguyen

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Magicians
Lev Grossman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Magician's Assistant
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Magician's Elephant
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Magician's Nephew
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1955

The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton Ash

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Magic Misfits
Neil Patrick Harris, Illustr. Lissy Marlin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The Magic Of Thinking Big
Dr. David Schwartz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post: A Novel
Allison Pataki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Magnolia Palace
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Maid
Nita Prose

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Maidens
Alex Michaelides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Maids
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

The Maid's Diary
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Making of Asian America: A History
Erika Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Making of the English Working Class
E. P. Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Kobe Bryant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Managed Heart
Arlie Russell Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Management of Grief
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1902

The Man In The Black Suit
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1994