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Master Harold and the Boys
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1982

Masterminds
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Masterpiece
Elise Broach

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Masters of Death
Olivie Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Mastery
Robert Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Matched
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Matilda
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Matrix
Lauren Groff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Maurice
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Maus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Maya and the Robot
Eve L. Ewing, Illustr. Christine Almeda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Maybe He Just Likes You
Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Maybe in Another Life
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Maybe Next Time
Cesca Major

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Maybe Someday
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Me and the Mule
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1959

Mean Spirit
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Measuring Up
Illustr. Ann Xu, Lily LaMotte

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Me Before You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Medea
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 49

Medicine River
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Medicine Walk
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Meditation 17
John Donne

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1630

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 180

Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1641

Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
Angela Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Meg Merrilies
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1818

Mementos, 1
W. D. Snodgrass

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Transl. Clara Winston, Ed. Aniela Jaffé, Transl. Richard Winston, C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Memory Man
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mencius
Mencius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Mending Wall
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Men Explain Things To Me
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Meno
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Men of Iron
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1891

Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Mercury Pictures Presents
Anthony Marra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mercy
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Mercy Among the Children
David Adams Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1952

Messenger
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Messenger
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Metamorphoses
Ovid

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 8

Metaphysics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Methland
Nick Reding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mexican WhiteBoy
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Pedro Martín

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Midaq Alley
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Middlemarch
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

Middle of the Night
Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Middle Passage
Charles R. Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
Chris Tebbetts, James Patterson, Illustr. Laura Park

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Midnight At The Blackbird Cafe
Heather Webber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Midnight at the Electric
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Williams Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Midsummer XXVII
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miko Kings
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Mile High (Windy City, #1)
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Jason Reynolds

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

Milkman
Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Million Dollar Throw
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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