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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1951

Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

Minor Feelings: a Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
Cathy Park Hong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Miracle At Philadelphia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Miracle Creek
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Miracle's Boys
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Mirror
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Misery
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Miss Hinch
Henry Sydnor Harrison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mockingbird Summer
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Modern Fiction
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1925

Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Moloka'i
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Money Hungry
Sharon G. Flake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Kris Holloway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China
Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Arthur Waley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1823

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

Monster
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Montaigne: Selected Essays
Michel de Montaigne

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1592

Montana 1948
Larry Watson

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1993

Monument 14
Emmy Laybourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Moo: A Novel
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Moonflower Murders: A Novel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Moon of the Crusted Snow
Waubgeshig Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

More Happy Than Not
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

More Than This
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Morning Girl
Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Morning Song
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Morning Star
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Mosquitoland
David Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mossflower
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Mother, A Cradle to Hold Me
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

Mother Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mothers
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Mother Tongue
Amy Tan

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1990

Mother to Son
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mowing
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Moxie
Jennifer Mathieu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

Mr. Dickens And His Carol
Samantha Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1946

Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Mr. Grumpledump's Song
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Mr Loverman
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mr. Mercedes
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mr. Mistoffelees
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Rodrigo Corral, Robin Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mr. Popper's Penguins
Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mrs. Everything
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Betty MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Mrs. Sen's
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Mrs Spring Fragrance
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1912

Mr Stink
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009