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The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Man-Eater of Malgudi
R.K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Mane Event
Shelly Laurenston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Man from Beijing
Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Man from New York
Benjamin Lawrence Reid

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Man from St. Petersburg
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Mango Season
Amulya Malladi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Man in My Basement
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Sloan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Man In The High Castle
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Man In The Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Mark Seal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Man in the Well
Ira Sher

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1995

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Lucette Lagnado

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Man in the Woods
Rosemary Wells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

The Manningtree Witches
A.K. Blakemore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Man Nobody Knows
Bruce Barton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924

The Man of Feeling
Henry MacKenzie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Man of Mode
George Etherege

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1676

The Man of Property (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1)
John Galsworthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Man of the Forest
Zane Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Mansion (The Snopes Trilogy, #3)
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Mark Twain

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Manticore
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Manual of Detection
Jedediah Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

The Man Who Died Twice
Richard Osman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Man Who Fell to Earth
Walter Tevis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Man Who Folded Himself
David Gerrold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

The Man Who Laughs
Victor Hugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

The Man Who Loved Clowns
June Rae Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Man Who Smiled
Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Man Who Turned into a Stick
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Man Who Was Poe
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1888

The Man Within
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Man With Night Sweats
Thom Gunn

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

The Man Without a Face
Masha Gessen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1)
Julian May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Jamie Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Lara Love Hardin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Many Meanings of Meilan
Andrea Wang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Mapmakers
John Noble Wilford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mapmaker's Children
Sarah McCoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Map of Love
Ahdaf Soueif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Map of Salt and Stars
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Mapping of Love and Death
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1860

The March
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Mark
Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Mark Of Athena
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Mark of the Dragonfly
Jaleigh Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Marriage Act
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Marriage Bargain
Jennifer Probst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Marriage Game
Sara Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Marriage Lie
Kimberly Belle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Marriage Of Opposites
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Marriage Pact
Michelle Richmond

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Marriage Trap
Jennifer Probst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Marrow of Tradition
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

The Marrow Thieves
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Marsh King's Daughter
Karen Dionne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Martian
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Martian Invasion of Earth
H.G. Wells, Nicholas Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Martyr
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Marvellers
Dhonielle Clayton

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Marvels
Brian Selznick

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Mary Shelley Club
Goldy Moldavsky

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Masked City
Genevieve Cogman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)
M.A. Carrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Mask of Sanity
Hervey M. Cleckley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605