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Mama's Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Mambo in Chinatown
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mammon and the Archer
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Mãn
Kim Thúy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Managed
Kristen Callihan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Peter F. Drucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
William Bridges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Manalive (Hilarious Stories)
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Man Alone with Himself
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Mañanaland
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Man and His Symbols
C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Man And Superman
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1903

Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965

Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (Mandie, #1)
Lois Gladys Leppard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks)
Jim Corbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Manfred
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1817

Manga Shakespeare: Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 2008

Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Manhood in America: A Cultural History
Michael S. Kimmel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Manhunt
Gretchen Felker-Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Mania
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Manna
Lee Correy, G. Harry Stine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Man of La Mancha
Dale Wasserman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

Man of the People
Alonzo L. Hamby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Man on Fire (Creasy, #1)
A.J. Quinnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1731

Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
Frederik Pohl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Man's Fate
Andre Malraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Mansfield Park
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1814

Man-Shy
Frank Dalby Davison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Man's Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Man Tiger
Eka Kurniawan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mantissa
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Manual of Zen Buddhism
D.T. Suzuki

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Manuscript Found in Accra
Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Manwhore +1
Katy Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Many Stones
Carolyn Coman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Many Waters
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Mao II
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Maoism
Julia Lovell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Map of Bones
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mapp and Lucia (Lucia, #4)
E.F. Benson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Mapping the Bones
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Maps
Nuruddin Farah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Maps for Lost Lovers
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Maps of Meaning
Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
David Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Mara, Daughter of The Nile
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1953

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

Marathon Man
William Goldman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Ellen Forney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

March
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

March: Books 2 & 3
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2016

March: Book Two
Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin, John Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

March: Book Two (March, #2)
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Marching for Freedom
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

March Violets (Bernie Gunther, #1)
Philip Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles, #1)
Maria Turtschaninoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Mare's War
Tanita S. Davis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
Megan Marshall

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Margins of Philosophy
Jacques Derrida

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

María
Jorge Isaacs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Maria Chapdelaine
Louis Hémon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Mariana
Susanna Kearsley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Marianela
Benito Perez Galdos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1798

Maria's Girls
Jerome Charyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Maria Stuart
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Antonia Fraser

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Marie-Claire
Marguerite Audoux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Mariel of Redwall (Redwall, #4)
Brian Jacques, Gary Chalk

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Mariette In Ecstasy
Ron Hansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Marina
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Marionettes, Inc.
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Marked
Benedict Jacka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Marked (House of Night, #1)
P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Marked in Flesh
Anne Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016