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My Book of Life by Angel
Martine Leavitt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Brother Jack
George Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

My Brother's Keeper
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

My Darling, My Hamburger
Paul Zindel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

My Education
Susan Choi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Enemy's Cradle
Sara Young (Pennypacker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

My Escapee: Stories
Corinna Vallianatos

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1956

My Father's Paradise
Ariel Sabar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

My Friend Leonard
James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
Jennifer Teege

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

My Jim
Nancy Rawles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Left Foot
Christy Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1954

My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

My Life as a Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

My Life in France
Julia Child

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

My Lives
Edmund White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Lord The Baby
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

My Most Excellent Year
Steve Kluger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

My Name is Aram
William Saroyan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1940

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

My Name is Parvana
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

My Own Country
Abraham Verghese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Sister Rosa
Justine Larbalestier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Soul is Rested
Howell Raines

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mysterious Kor
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Mystery at Lake Placid
Roy MacGregor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

My Thirteenth Winter
Samantha Abeel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

My Time Among the Whites
Jennine Capó Crucet

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Madman of Piney Woods
Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Madonna of Excelsior
Zakes Mda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Madonnas of Leningrad
Debra Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Maestro
Tim Wynne-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

The Magician of Lublin
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Magic Toyshop
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Magus
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Making of a Navy SEAL
Brandon Webb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Man from New York
Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Mango Season
Amulya Malladi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Man in My Basement
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Mark Seal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Lucette Lagnado

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Man in the Woods
Rosemary Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

The Man of Mode
George Etherege

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1676

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Manticore
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Man Who Loved Clowns
June Rae Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Man Who Turned into a Stick
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1888

The Man Without a Face
Masha Gessen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Mapmakers
John Noble Wilford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The March
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Mark
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605

The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

The Master Puppeteer
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Measure of a Man
Sidney Poitier

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

The Medusa and the Snail
Lewis Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Melting Pot
Maria Kaneva-Johnson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The Memory Chalet
Tony Judt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Memory of Light
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Memory of Running
Ron McLarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Memory Palace
Mira Bartok

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Mephisto Club
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Imogen Hermes Gowar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mermaid Chair
Sue Monk Kidd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

The Messenger
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Middle Passage
Tom Feelings

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1995