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A Madness So Discreet
Mindy Mcginnis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Mad World, My Masters (Globe Quartos)
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1999

A Magic Steeped in Poison
Judy I. Lin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

A Man Called Horse
Dorothy M. Johnson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

A Man Called Intrepid
William Stevenson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

A Mango-Shaped Space
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

A Man In Full
Tom Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)
Ngaio Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Man Like Smith
Marilyn Pappano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

A Man's Place
Francine Prose, Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Man's World
Donald McRae

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Map for the Missing
Belinda Huijuan Tang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Map of Days
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

A Map of Home
Randa Jarrar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

A Map of the World
Jane Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Map to the Door of No Return
Dionne Brand

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

A Married Woman
Manju Kapur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Marvellous Light
Freya Marske

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1940

A Matter of Honor
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics)
L.J. Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1998

A Meeting In The Dark
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Memory of Violets
Hazel Gaynor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick, #1)
Kendra Elliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Merciful Secret
Kendra Elliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Merciful Truth
Kendra Elliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Mercy
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Merry Little Meet Cute
Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Midnight Clear
William Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helen Hackett

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1595

A Midsummer's Nightmare
Kody Keplinger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

A Midsummer Tempest
Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

A Million Junes
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime
Monica Murphy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Million Little Pieces
James Frey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Barbara Oakley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

A Minute to Midnight
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Mirror for Observers
Edgar Pangborn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

A Mirror for Witches
Esther Forbes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Model World and Other Stories
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Modern Mephistopheles: A Novel
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1729

A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

A Morbid Taste For Bones
Ellis Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Most Agreeable Murder
Julia Seales

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Most Wanted Man
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Mother's Reckoning
Sue Klebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

A Mouse Called Wolf
Dick King-Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

A Municipal Report
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1909

A Murder in Virginia
Suzanne Lebsock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

A Murder of Quality
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell, #5)
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Craig Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Maame
Jessica George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Macbeth
Joan Montgomery Byles

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1606

Machete Season
Jean Hatzfeld

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Machinal
Sophie Treadwell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Machine Dreams
Jayne Anne Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Machine Man
Max Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Machine (White Space, #2)
Elizabeth Bear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

MacRieve
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mad About the Boy (Bridget Jones, #3)
Helen Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Mad About You
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Madame
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1856

Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

Madame Curie: A Biography
Ève Curie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Michelle Moran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Madam Secretary
Madeleine K. Albright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

MaddAddam
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Maddi's Fridge
Lois Brandt, Vin Vogel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014