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Missing You
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Mission Critical (Gray Man, #8)
Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
Hal Clement

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Mississippi Blood
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mississippi Bridge (Logans, #4.5)
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Miss Marple's Final Cases
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

Miss Mole
E.H. Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Miss New India
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself
Radclyffe Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
Ellen MacGregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Miss Pym Disposes
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
Sarah Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Mistaken Identity
Alyssa J. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Mister Monday
Garth Nix

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Mister Moneybags
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Mister Monkey
Francine Prose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mister O
Lauren Blakely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistletoe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #1)
Leslie Meier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Mistral's Daughter
Judith Krantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Mistral's Kiss
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mistress of All Evil (Villains, #4)
Serena Valentino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Mistress Of The Art Of Death
Ariana Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Mistress of the Bones
Patricia Marie Janeshutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mistress of the Empire
Janny Wurts, Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Mistress of the Ritz
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Moby Dick
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1851

Moccasin Trail
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Charles J. Shields

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Mockingbird Summer
Lynda Rutledge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Model Home
Eric Puchner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Moderato Cantabile
Marguerite Duras

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1958

Modern Girls
Jennifer S. Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Modernism: Designing a New World
Christopher Wilk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Modern Lovers
Emma Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C. G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Allan Greer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1722

Molloy
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

Moloka'i
Alan Brennert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1976

Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Momo
Michael Ende

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1973

Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Monday Mourning
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Money
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Money Hungry
Sharon G. Flake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Money Shot (Angel Dare #1)
Christa Faust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Kris Holloway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Monkeewrench (Monkeewrench, #1)
P.J. Tracy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China
Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Arthur Waley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592

Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Monkey Bridge
Lan Cao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Monkey Grip
Helen Garner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Monogamy
Sue Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001

Monsieur Vénus
Rachilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Monsignor Quixote
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Monster
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Monster Book
Alice Hoogstad

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2008

Monster Club (Monster Club #1)
Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Monster Hunter International
Larry Correia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Monster in His Eyes
J.M. Darhower

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
Rus Wooton, Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019