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A Madness So Discreet
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

A Man Called Horse
Dorothy M. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

A Man Like Smith (Southern Knights, #3)
Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

A Man's World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith
Donald McRae

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin, Stephen Emerson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

A Meeting In The Dark
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

A Midnight Clear
William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Million Little Pieces
James Frey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill, Stephen A. Black

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
Warren Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue Klebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

A Municipal Report
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial
Suzanne Lebsock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Machine Man
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner, Julian Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1)
Mark Zug, Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Mahabharata
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Main Street
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Rana Foroohar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Malgudi Days
R.K. Narayan, R. K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Karen McCarthy Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Mama's Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1968

Mammon and the Archer
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man (City Lights/Sister Spit)
Thomas Page McBee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
Michael Wallis, Wilma Mankiller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman
Alonzo L. Hamby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Man's Fate
Andre Malraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Mantissa
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
Kate Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Many Waters (Time Quintet, #4)
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Mao II
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Maps for Lost Lovers
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Marching for Freedom
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mare's War
Tanita S. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Maria Chapdelaine
Louis Hémon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Maria's Girls (Isaac Sidel #6)
Jerome Charyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mariette in Ecstasy
Ron Hansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mario and the Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Markheim
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1982

Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Marriage is a Private Affair
Judith Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1786

Marse Chan: The Tale of Old Virginia
Thomas Nelson Page

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1887

Martha Quest (Children of Violence, #1)
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Martin Chuzzlewit
Hablot Knight Browne, Charles Dickens, Patricia Ingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Martyn Pig
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Marxism and Literature
Raymond Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals, #1)
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Boykin Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Mary Reilly
Valerie Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Masters of Disaster
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel

Mateo Falcone
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1829

Mathilda Savitch
Victor Lodato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Matigari
Wangui wa Goro, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Matryona's House
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1963

Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
James D. Scurlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Maya's Notebook
Isabel Allende, Anne McLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53
Nicholas Rogers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
Maciej Miłkowski, John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Me and Orson Welles
Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food Taming Our Primal Instincts
Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann, Carol Brown Janeway, Ilona Nykyri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Med Head
James Patterson, Hal Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
Marcus J. Borg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Meet the Austins (Austin Family Chronicles, #1)
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1997

Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1925

Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Memed, My Hawk
Yashar Kemal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir, James Kirkup

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Susan Bernofsky, Yōko Tawada, Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Edith Grossman, Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010