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Midnight Blue
Simone van der Vlugt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Midnight Crossroad
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Midnight Exposure
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Midnight for Charlie Bone: The Children of the Red King #1
Jenny Nimmo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Midnight in Broad Daylight
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
Adam Schiff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Midnight Is the Darkest Hour
Ashley Winstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Midnight Oil
V. S. Pritchett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Midnight Rider
Joan Hiatt Harlow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Midnight Rising
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Midnight Robber
Nalo Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Midnight's Daughter
Karen Chance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Midnight Tides
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Williams Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Midwinterblood
Marcus Sedgwick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Midwinter Break

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Midwives
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Mightier Than the Sword
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mighty Be Our Powers
Leymah Gbowee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miguel Street
V.S. Naipaul

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1959

Mike and Psmith (Psmith, #1)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Miko Kings
LeAnne Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mila 18
Leon Uris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Mile High
R.K. Lilley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mile High (Windy City, #1)
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Jason Reynolds

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

Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Milk Fed
Melissa Broder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Milkman
Anna Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Millennium
John Varley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Million Dollar Throw
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Mindbridge
Joe Haldeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Mind Games
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Mind Games (Mind Games, #1)
Teri Terry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mind Hacking
John Hargrave

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Mind Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mindwise
Nicholas Epley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Mine
Robert R. McCammon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Mine Boy
Peter Abrahams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Mine Till Midnight
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mine to Possess
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
Theodor W. Adorno

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1951

Mini Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Min kamp 2
Karl Ove Knausgård

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mink River
Brian Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Minna von Barnhelm
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

Minor Detail
Adania Shibli, Transl. Elisabeth Jaquette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Minor Feelings: a Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
Cathy Park Hong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Minutes to Kill
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Mio, My Son
Astrid Lindgren, Ilon Wikland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Miracle Creek
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Miracle in the Andes
Nando Parrado, Vince Rause

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Miracle on 34th Street
Valentine Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Miracle's Boys
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Mirage (Mirage, #1)
Somaiya Daud

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Miriam
Aimée Sommerfelt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

Mirror Mirror
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Dorthe Nors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Eduardo Galeano

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

Misbehaving
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mischling
Affinity Konar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany
Ilse Koehn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Misery
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

M is for Malice (Kinsey Millhone, #13)
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Misguided Angel
Melissa de la Cruz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Miss Benson's Beetle
Rachel Joyce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Miss Buncle's Book (Miss Buncle #1)
D.E. Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Miss Burma
Charmaine Craig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Miss Garnet's Angel
Salley Vickers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Miss Grief and Other Stories
Constance Fenimore Woolson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2016

Miss Hickory
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Miss Iceland
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Missing and Endangered (Joanna Brady, #19)
J.A. Jance

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Missing May
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Missing, Presumed
Susie Steiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016