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ALPHABETICAL

Max Havelaar
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

Maximum City
Suketu Mehta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Maximum Ride, Vol. 1
James Patterson, NaRae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Maya
C.W. Huntington Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Maya's Notebook: A Novel
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

May B.
Caroline Starr Rose

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2012

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 Not
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2014

Maybe Now
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Maybe One Day
Debbie Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Maybe Someday
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Maybe This Time
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mayday
Karen Harrington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Mayflies
Andrew O'Hagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

M.C. Higgins, the Great
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Me
Elton John

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Meadowland
John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Mean
Myriam Gurba

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Me and Marvin Gardens
Amy Sarig King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Me and My Little Brain (Great Brain, #3)
John D. Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Me and Orson Welles
Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mean Genes
Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Mean Girls
Micol Ostow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
Robert A. Caro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Mean Spirit
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Mean Streak
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Meant to Be
Lauren Morrill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Measuring Up
Lily LaMotte, Illustr. Ann Xu

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Me Before You
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Meddling Kids
Edgar Cantero

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Medea (Seneca)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 50

Med Head
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Medical Nemesis
Ivan Illich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Medicine River
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Medicine Woman
Lynn V. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ijeoma Oluo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 180

Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1641

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Medusa
Jessie Burton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Me & Emma
Elizabeth Flock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Meet Cute
Helena Hunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
Marcus J. Borg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Meet Me at the Lake
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Meet Me at the Museum
Anne Youngson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Meet Me Halfway
Lilian T. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Meet Me in Monaco
Hazel Gaynor, Heather Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Meet Me in the Margins
Melissa Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Meet Me in the Middle
Alex Light

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Meet the Austins
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Meet Your Match
Kandi Steiner

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
Steve Alten

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
Kate Brian

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1925

Melanctha
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Melania
Melania Trump

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Melmoth
Sarah Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Melonhead
Katy Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2)
J.T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Melville
Jean Giono

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Memed, My Hawk
Yashar Kemal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Memento Mori
Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Memnoch the Devil
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Marc Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Yoko Tawada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951