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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2009
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
William H. Mcraven
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Transl. Richard Seaver, Transl. Helen R. Lane, André Breton
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Gail Bederman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
Man's Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Brian Weiss
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla Saad
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
Chris Tebbetts, James Patterson, Illustr. Laura Park
Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
Minor Feelings: a Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
Cathy Park Hong
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Kris Holloway
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
Monkey: A Folk Novel of China
Wu Cheng'en, Transl. Arthur Waley
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1592
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2001
Montaigne: Selected Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1592
Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817
More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
William Julius Wilson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan, Rodrigo Corral
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938
Mrs Spring Fragrance
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1912
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Musui's Story
Katsu Kokichi, Transl. Teruko Craig, Illustr. Hiroshige Utagawa
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1843
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1855
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
Gwendolyn Brooks
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts
Resmaa Menakem
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1942
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979
The Magic Finger
Roald Dahl, Illustr. Quentin Blake
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1966
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Kobe Bryant
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians
Leslie Marmon Silko
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
Chris Wilson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019