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Murambi, The Book of Bones
Boubacar Boris Diop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Murder
David Halliday

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Murder as a Fine Art
David Morrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Murder at the Book Club (Barrett & Palmer, #1)
Betsy Reavley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Murder at the Grand Raj Palace (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #4)
Vaseem Khan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
Claire Harman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher, #12)
Kerry Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Murder in the Family
Cara Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #1)
Cara Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike, #1)
Robin Stevens

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Murder of Crows
Anne Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Murder on a Kibbutz
Batya Gur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Murder on Cape Cod (Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery, #1)
Maddie Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Murder on St. Mark's Place (Gaslight Mystery, #2)
Victoria Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)
Marcie R. Rendon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Murder on Trinity Place (Gaslight Mystery, #22)
Victoria Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Murphy
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #1)
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, #2)
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Music in the Dark
Sally Magnusson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Music of the Ghosts
Vaddey Ratner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Music of the Heart
Katie Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Muslims and the Making of America
Amir Hussain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Mustard Seed
Laila Ibrahim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Musui's Story
Katsu Kokichi, Transl. Teruko Craig, Illustr. Hiroshige Utagawa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1843

Mutability
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Mutant Message Down Under
Marlo Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Mutiny on the Bounty: Classics Illustrated No 100
Charles Bernard Nordhoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Pyotr Kropotkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
Dean Spade

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

My Abandonment
Peter Rock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

My Absolute Darling
Gabriel Tallent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Age of Anxiety
Scott Stossel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My American Journey
Colin Powell, Joseph E., Persico

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

My Antonia
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
Nie Jun

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Best Friend's Exorcism
Grady Hendrix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Best Friend's Girl
Dorothy Koomson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish
Mo O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Blood Approves
Amanda Hocking

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
Reymundo Sanchez

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

My Body
Emily Ratajkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1855

My Book of Life by Angel
Martine Leavitt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Booky Wook
Russell Brand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

My Bridges of Hope
Livia Bitton-Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

My Brother Jack
George Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

My Brother Javi: A Dog's Tale
Tracy Stopler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1974

My Brother Sean
Petronella Breinburg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1806

My Brother's Keeper
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

My Childhood
Maxim Gorky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

My Contraband
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

My Dark Desire
L.J. Shen, Parker S. Huntington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

My Darkest Prayer
S.A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

My Dark Romeo
Parker S. Huntington, L. J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

My Darling, My Hamburger
Paul Zindel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1969

My Dear Hamilton
Stephanie Dray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Disillusionment In Russia
Emma Goldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1956

My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
Erica Moroz, Diane Guerrero

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
Joseph O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Fault
Mercedes Ron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

My Favorite Half-Night Stand
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris

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

My Feudal Lord
Tehmina Durrani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
Rachel DeLoache Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

My Friend Dahmer
Derf Backderf

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

My Friend Flicka
Mary O'Hara

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

My Friend Leonard
James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Friends
Hisham Matar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
Jennifer Teege

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts
Resmaa Menakem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

My Hero Academia, Vol. 1
Kohei Horikoshi, Transl. Caleb D. Cook

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005