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Monstress, Volume 2: The Blood
Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Monstress, Volume 3: Haven
Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen
Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Monstress, Volume 5: Warchild
Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Montana
Gwen Florio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Montana Sky
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Monte Walsh
Jack Schaefer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Monument 14
Emmy Laybourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Moo
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Moominpappa's Memoirs (The Moomins, #4)
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Moominvalley in November (The Moomins, #9)
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mooncakes
Suzanne Walker, Illustr. Wendy Xu

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Moon Called
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Moonfleet
John Meade Falkner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Moonflower Murders: A Novel
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Moonglow
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Moonlight Becomes You
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Moonlight (Dark Guardian, #1)
Rachel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Moonlight in Odessa
Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Gina B. Nahai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Moonlight Road
Robyn Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Moon of the Crusted Snow
Waubgeshig Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Moon Over Soho
Ben Aaronovitch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Moon Palace
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Moonraker
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Moonrise
Sarah Crossan

Fiction | Poem | Published in 2017

Moonrise Over New Jessup
Jamila Minnicks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Moon Rising
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Moonwalk
Michael Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Moral Disorder and Other Stories
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

Morality for Beautiful Girls
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Morality Play
Barry Unsworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Moral Politics
George Lakoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

More Happy Than Not
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

More Joy in Heaven
Morley Callaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Morella
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

More Than a Carpenter
Josh McDowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

More Than an Echo
Linda Kay Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

More Than Human
Ramez Naam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

More Than This
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

More Than You'll Ever Know
Katie Gutierrez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)
Sophie Keetch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Morgan's Passing
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Moriarty
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Morning Girl
Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Morning In The Burned House: Poems
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2023

Mornings in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mornings on Horseback
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1981

Morphology of the Folktale
Vladimir Propp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Morrigan's Cross
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mort
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Mortal Coil
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Mortal Heart
Robin LaFevers

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Mortality
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Mortal Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Mortals
Norman Rush

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Morvern Callar (Morvern Callar Cycle, #1)
Alan Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Mosaic
Diane Armstrong

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Moscow 2042
Vladimir Voinovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Moscow Rules
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Moses and Monotheism
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Moses Ascending
Sam Selvon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Moses, Man of the Mountain
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Mosquitoland
David Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

Mossflower
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Mostly the Honest Truth
Jody J. Little

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Most of All You
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Most Wanted
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mother
Maxim Gorky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Mother California
Kenneth E. Hartman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

Mother Daughter Murder Night
Nina Simon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
Sarah Knott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Mother May I
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Mother of Death & Dawn
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Mothers and Daughters
Rae Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Mothers and Others
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Mothers of Invention
Drew Gilpin Faust

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996