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Lying Awake
Mark Salzman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Machine Man
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1893

Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Magna Carta Libertatum
Stephen Langton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1215

Main Street
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1905

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Makers and Takers
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

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1943

Mama Lola
Karen McCarthy Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Mama's Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Mammon and the Archer
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Manhattan Transfer
John Dos Passos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1993

Man of the People
Alonzo L. Hamby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Man's Fate
Andre Malraux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

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

Many Waters
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Mao II
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Maps for Lost Lovers
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Marching for Freedom
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

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

Maria's Girls
Jerome Charyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Mariette In Ecstasy
Ron Hansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Mario And The Magician
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

Markheim
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1885

Mark Twain: A Life
Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

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
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Steven Millhauser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Martyn Pig
Kevin Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Marxism and Literature
Raymond Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Mary, Bloody Mary
Carolyn Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Mary Reilly
Valerie Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Masters of Disaster
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Mateo Falcone
Prosper Merimee

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1829

Mathilda Savitch
Victor Lodato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Matigari
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Matryona's House
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1963

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Maxed Out
James D. Scurlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Maya's Notebook: A Novel
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Mayhem
Nicholas Rogers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Meadowland
John Lewis-Stempel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Me and Orson Welles
Robert Kaplow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mean Genes
Jay Phelan, Terry Burnham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Med Head
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Medical Nemesis
Ivan Illich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
Marcus J. Borg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Meet the Austins
Madeleine L'Engle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Matthew Dicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Mercies in Disguise
Gina Kolata

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Meridian
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Mermaids 13
John L. French

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

MetaMaus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Metropolis
Thea von Harbou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Mexico: The Cookbook
Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Michael Kohlhaas
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1810

Michael Vey
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Ross King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Michel Foucault
Didier Eribon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Microbe Hunters
Paul De Kruif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1926

Middle of Nowhere
Caroline Adderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Midnight Assassin
Patricia L. Bryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
Judy Fong Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Midnight Crossroad
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014