Inventory: M

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  • The Sensuous Man, Non-Fiction (Erotica)

Alain Mabanckou – 21st Century African Writer

  • African Psycho, Novel, 2017
  • Black Moses, Novel, 2018

George MacDonald — 19th Century Scottish Author

  • At the Back of the North Wind, Juvenile Novel, 1956

John D. MacDonald — 20th Century American Mystery Writer

  • Bright Orange For the Shroud, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • Cinnamon Skin, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • Darker Than Amber, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • A Deadly Shade of Gold, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Dreadful Lemon Sky, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • Dress Her In Indigo, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Empty Copper Sea, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • Free Fall in Crimson, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Girl In the Plain Brown Wrapper, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Green Ripper, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Lonely Silver Rain, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Long Blue Goodby, 1986, Mystery Novel
  • The Long Lavender Look, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • Nightmare In Pink, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • One Fearful Yellow Eye, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • Pale Gray for Guilt, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • A Purple Place For Dying, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • The Quick Red Fox, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • The Scarlet Ruse, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • A Tan and Sandy Silence, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • The Turquoise Lament, 1987, Mystery Novel
  • The Neon Jungle, Novel, 2020

Ross Macdonald — 20th Century American Author

  • The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Novel, 2024

Arthur Machen

  • The Great God Pan, Short Novel, 2015

Alistair MacLean — 20th Century Scottish Author

  • Ice Station Zebra, Novel, 2020

Rachel Maddow — 21st Century American Journalist

  • Blowout, Non-Fiction, 2019
  • Bagman, Non-Fiction, 2020
  • Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Non-Fiction, 2023

Ma Jian — 21st Century Chinese/British Author

  • Stick Out Your Tongue, Short Story Collection, 2019

Bill Maher — 21st Century American Comedian & Political Satirist

  • The New New Rules, Essay, 2012

Naguib Mahfouz — 20th Century Egyptian Novelist. [Nobel prize]

  • Palace Walk, Novel, 1996
  • Midaq Alley, Novel, 1996
  • Palace of Desire, Novel, 1997
  • Children of the Alley, Novel, 1997
  • Arabian Nights & Days, Novel, 1997
  • Adrift On the Nile, Novel, 1997
  • Sugar Street, Novel, 1997
  • The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Novel, 1998
  • Wedding Son, Novel, 1998
  • The Thief and the Dogs, Novel, 1998
  • The Harafish, Novel, 1999
  • Cairo Modern, Novel, 2010
  • Karnak Café, Short Novel, 2013
  • Akhenaten, Novel, 2014

Otaro Maijo — 21st Century Japanese Writer

  • Asura Girl, Novel, 2017

Norman Mailer — 20th Century American Author & Personality

  • The Naked and the Dead, Novel, 1962
  • St. George and the Godfather, Essay, 1973
  • Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Novel, 1977
  • Why Are We in Vietnam, Novel, 1973
  • The Castle In the Forest, Novel, 2012
  • The Executioner’s Song, Novel, 2023
  • Oswald’s Tale, Non-Fiction, 2024

Andreï Makine – 21st Century French Author

  • Dreams of My Russian Summers. Novel, 2010

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi — 21st Century African Author

  • Kintu, Novel, 2017
  • A Girl Is a Body of Water, Novel, 2020

Bernard Malamud — 20th Century American Novelist

  • The Assistant, Novel, 1969
  • The Fixer, Novel, 1970
  • The Natural, Novel, 1971

Amulya Malladi

  • A Breath of Fresh Air, Novel, 2003

Nancy M. Malone

  • Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading, Non-Fiction (Philosophy), 2005

Maloney — 20th Century American Author

  • The Nixon Recession Caper, Mystery Novel, 1973

Andre Malraux — 20th Century French Author

  • Man’s Fate, Novel, 1965

Alia Mamdouh — 21st Century Iraqi Author

  • Naphtalene, Novel, 2017

Jean-Patrick Manchette — 20th Century French Mystery Writer

  • The Prone Gunman, Novel (Suspense), 2003

Alberto Manguel – 20th Century Argentine Author

  • The Library at Night, Non-Fiction, 2010

Nag Mani — 21st Century India Author

  • The Green Room, Novel, 2017

Kim Manjung — 17th Century Korean Author

  • The Cloud Dream of the Nine, Novel, 2007

Henning Mankell — 21st Century Swedish Author

  • Faceless Killers, Novel, 2019
  • The Dogs of Riga, Novel, 2020
  • The White Lioness, Novel, 2023

Thomas Mann — 20th Century German Author. Nobel Prize

  • Buddenbrooks, Novel, 1967
  • Death In Venice, Short Novel, 1968
  • The Magic Mountain, Novel, 1993
  • The Black Swans, Short Novel, 2000
  • Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, Novel, 2001
  • Doctor Faustus, Novel, 2006

Katherine Mansfield — Twentieth Century British Author

  • In a German Pension, Short Stories, 2013

Hilary Mantel — 20th Century English Author

  • The School of English, Story, 2018
  • Wolf Hall, Novel, 2019

Alessandro Manzoni — 19th Century Italian Author

  • The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi, Historical Novel, 2021

Sandor Marai — 20th Century Hungarian Author

  • Embers, Novel, 2010
  • The Rebels, Novel, 2021

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  • The Mirror in the Well, Novel, 2011

Ben Marcus

  • The Age of Wire and String, Short Story Collection, 2007
  • Notable American Women, Novel, 2010
  • The Flame Alphabet, Novel, 2013
  • Notes From the Fog, Short Stories, 2020

Frank Marcus

  • The Killing of Sister George, Drama, 1971

Steven E. Marcus

  • The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England, Non-Fiction (Literature), 1968

Javier Marias – 20th Century Spanish Author

  • The Man of Feeling, Novel, 2010
  • Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, Short Novel, 2010
  • While the Women Are Sleeping, Story Collection, 2013
  • Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me, Novel, 2014
  • A Heart So White, Novel, 2014
  • The Infatuations, Novel, 2104
  • Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear, Novel, 2022
  • Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream, Novel, 2022
  • Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, Novel, 2022

Kamala Markandaya

  • Nectar in a Sieve, Novel, 2009

David Markson

  • This Is Not a Novel, Novel, 2002
  • Reader’s Block, Novel, 2003
  • Springer’s Progress, Novel, 2003
  • Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Novel, 2006
  • Vanishing Point, Novel, 2007
  • The Last Novel, Novel, 2007
  • Going Down, Novel, 2009
  • The Ballad of Dingus McGee, Novel, 2013
  • Epitaph For a Tramp, Novel, 2013
  • Epitaph For a Dead Beat, Novel, 2015

Peter Markus

  • Good, Brother, Short Novel, 2009
  • The Singing Fish, Short Novel, 2009
  • Bob, or Man on Boat, Novel, 2009

Christopher Marlowe

  • Doctor Faustus, Drama, 1966

 John P. Marquand

  • Your Turn, Mr. Moto, Novel, 2017

Gabriel Garcia Marquez — 20th Century Columbian/Mexican Author. Nobel Prize.

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, Novel, 1996
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Novel, 1997
  • Leaf Storm, Novel, 1998
  • No One Writes to the Colonel, Novel, 1998
  • Of Love and Other Demons, Novel, 1998
  • In Evil Hour, Novel, 1998
  • Love In the Time of Cholera, Novel, 1999
  • The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Novel, 2002
  • Memoria de mis putas tristes, Short Novel, 2005 [Spanish]
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Short Novel, 2016 [English]

Thomas B. Marquis

  • Keep the Last Bullet For Yourself, Non-Fiction

Yann Martel

  • Life of Pi, Novel, 2003

Steve Martin — 20th Century American Comic Actor

  • Pure Drivel, Essays, 2001
  • Shopgirl, Short Novel, 2001

Karl Marx

  • The Communist Manifesto, Essay, 2006 [with Fredrich Engels]

Miyoshi Masao — 20th Century Japanese Author

  • Accomplices of Silence: The Modern Japanese Novel, Literary Criticism, 2004

Carole Maso

  • The Art Lover, Novel, 2008
  • Ghost Dance, Novel, 2008
  • The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Novel, 2008
  • AVA, Novel, 2009
  • Aureole: An Erotic Sequence, Story & Poetry Collection, 2009
  • Mother and Child, Novel, 2020

Sujata Massey

  • The Flower Master, Novel

Whit Masterson

  • Badge of Evil, Mystery Novel, 2017

Seicho Masumoto

  • A Quiet Place, Novel, 2016

Richard Matheson

  • I Am Legend, Novel, 2004
  • Woman, Short Novel, 2022

Harry Mathews

  • Singular Pleasures, Novel, 2006
  • The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, Novel. 2006
  • My Life in CIA, Novel, 2006
  • The Journalist, Novel, 2007
  • Semaines de Suzanne [S.], Collaborative Novel, 2007 [with …]
  • 20 Lines a Day, Non-Fiction, 2007
  • The Conversions, Novel, 2007
  • Tlooth, Novel, 2008
  • Cigarettes, Novel, 2010

William Matthews

  • Sleek for the Long Flight, Poetry Collection

Peter Matthiessen — 20/21st Century American Author and Journalist

  • Far Tortuga, Novel, 2201

Charles Maturin — 19th Century Irish Author

  • Melmoth the Wanderer, Novel, 2020

Philip Matyszak — 21st Century British Non-Fiction Author

  • Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World, Non-Fiction, 2021

W. Someset Maugham — 20th Century British Author

  • The Moon and Sixpence, Novel
  • The Razor’s Edge, Novel, 1990
  • Up At the Villa, Novel, 2000
  • Of Human Bondage, Novel, 2008/2014
  • The Magician, Novel, 2017
  • Cakes and Ale, Novel, 2019

Armistead Maupin — 20th Century American Author

  • Tales of the City, Novel, 2020
  • More Tales of the City, Novel, 2021
  • Further Tales of the City, Novel, 2021
  • Babycakes, Novel, 2021
  • Significant Others, Novel, 2021
  • Sure of You, Novel, 2021
  • Michael Tolliver Lives, Novel, 2021
  • Mary Ann in Autumn, Novel, 2022
  • The Days of Anna Madrigal, Novel, 2022

Guy de Maupassant — 19th Century French Author

  • Bel Ami, Novel, 2006
  • Pierre et Jean, Novel, 2010
  • Afloat, Essay, 2015

François Mauriac

  • La Pharisienne, Novel, 2007
  • Le Noeud de Vipères, Novel, 2011
  • Thérèse Desqueyroux, Novel, 2013

Simon Mawer

  • The Fall, Novel, 2010

Nicolas Max — 20th Century American Writer

  • President McGovern’s First Term, Popular Fiction (Novel)

Robin Maxwell

  • The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Popular Fiction (Novel), 1999

Maynard

  • Baby Love, Popular Fiction (Novel)

Friederike Mayröcker

  • brütt, or The Sighing Gardens, Novel, 2012

Isa Mazzei — 21st Century American Author/Producer

  • Cam Girl, Novel, 2104

Imbolo Mbue — 21st Century Cameroonian-American Author

  • How Beautiful We Were, Novel, 2021

Ed McBain — 20th Century American Mystery Writer

  • Beauty and the Beast, Mystery Novel
  • Cinderella, Mystery Novel
  • Goldilocks, Mystery Novel
  • Jack and the Beanstalk, Mystery Novel
  • Rumpelstiltskin, Mystery Novel
  • Snow White and Rose Red, Mystery Novel
  • Three Blind Mice, Mystery Novel
  • Gladly The Cross-Eyed Bear, Mystery Novel, 1996
  • There Was a Little Girl, Mystery Novel, 1997
  • The Last Best Hope, Mystery Novel, 1998
  • Mary, Mary, Mystery Novel, 1992
  • Lightning, Detective Novel, 1987
  • Eight Black Horses, Detective Novel, 1987
  • Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here!, Detective Novel, 1987
  • Heat, Detective Novel, 1987
  • Downtown, Detective Novel, 1994
  • The Frumious Bandersnatch, Detective Novel, 2017
  • Cop Hater, Detective Novel, 2019
  • The Mugger, Detective Novel, 2019
  • Pusher, Detective Novel, 2019
  • The Con Man. Novel, 2107
  • Killer’s Choice, Novel, 2023

James McBride — 21st Century American Author

  • Deacon King Kong, Novel, 2021

Cormac McCarthy — 20th Century American Novelist

  • Child of God, Novel, 1996
  • All the Pretty Horses, Novel, 1996 [Border Trilogy 1]
  • Blood Meridian, Novel, 1996
  • No Country for Old Men, Novel, 2006
  • The Road, Novel, 2007
  • The Orchard Keeper, Novel, 2007
  • The Crossing. Novel, 2021 [Border Trilogy 2]
  • Cities of the Plain, 2021 [Border Trilogy 3]
  • Suttree, Novel, 2021
  • Outer Dark, Novel, 2021

Mary McCarthy

  • The Group, Novel, 1965
  • The Groves of Academe, Novel, 2024

Tom McCarthy

  • Remainder, Novel, 2011
  • C, Novel, 2011

McClure

  • The Beard, Drama

Carson McCullers — 20th Century American Author

  • Member of the Wedding, Novel, 1996
  • Reflections In a Golden Eye, Novel, 1998
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Novel, 2007
  • Clock Without Hands, Novel, 2009
  • The Ballad of the Sad Café: And Other Stories, Novel, 2022

Betty McDonald — 20th Century American Author

  • The Egg and I, Novel, 1960

Gregory McDonald — 20th Century American Mystery Writer

  • The Buck Passes Flynn, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Carioca Fletch, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Confess, Fletch, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Fletch, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Fletch’s Moxie, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Flynn, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Flynn’s In, Mystery Novel, 1986
  • Fletch Won, Mystery Novel, 1988
  • Who Took Toby Rinaldi, Mystery Novel, 1988
  • Fletch Too, Mystery Novel, 1989
  • Fletch Reflected, Mystery Novel, 1995
  • Son of Fletch, Mystery Novel, 1995
  • Skylar, Mystery Novel, 1997
  • Skylar in Yankeeland, Mystery Novel, 1997
  • Flynn’s World, Mystery Novel, 2020

Joseph McElroy — 20th Century American Author

  • Actress In the House, Novel, 2003
  • The Letter Left to Me, Novel, 2004
  • Smuggler’s Bible, Novel, 2004
  • Plus, Novel, 2005/2013
  • Cannonball, Novel, 2013
  • Lookout Cartridge, Novel, 2021

Ian McEwan — 21st Century English Author

  • Black Dogs, Novel, 1999
  • Amsterdam, Novel, 2000
  • Atonement, Novel, 2002
  • Enduring Love, Novel, 2002
  • Saturday, Novel, 2005
  • The Comfort of Strangers, Novel, 2006
  • On Chesil Beach, Novel, 2007
  • The Cement Garden, Novel, 2007
  • Nutshell, Novel, 2016
  • The Child in Time, Novel, 2018
  • Machines Like Me, Novel, 2019
  • The Children Act, Novel, 2020
  • The Cockroach, Short Novel, 2020
  • Solar, Novel, 2021
  • Sweet Tooth, Novel, 2022

John McPhee — 20th Century American Writer

  • Annals of the Former World, Non-Fiction, 2023

Joe McGinniss — 20th Century American Author

  • Blind Faith, Novel, 1992

Jay McInerney — 20th Century American Author

  • Bright Lights, Big City, Novel. 1997

Ralph McInery — 20th Century American Mystery Writer

  • Rest In Pieces, Mystery Novel, 1990

Vonda M. McIntyre

  • Dream Snake, Science Fiction Novel, 1977

Norman Mclean — 20th Century American Author

  • A River Runs Through It, Novel, 1997

Marshall McLuhan –– 20th Century Canadian Visionary & Author

  • Understanding Media, Non-Fiction

Ann McMan — 21st Century American Author

  • Beowulf For Cretins: A Love Story, Novel, 2022

Larry McMurtry — 20th Century American Novelist

  • Lonesome Dove, Novel, 1984
  • All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers, Novel, 1993
  • Horseman, Pass By, Novel, 2002
  • The Desert Rose, Novel, 2002
  • The Last Picture Show, Novel, 2002
  • Buffalo Girls, Novel, 2002
  • Sin Killer, Novel, 2002 [The Berrybender Saga #1]
  • The Wandering Hill, Novel, 2003 [The Berrybender Saga #2]
  • By Sorrow’s River, Novel, 2004 [The Berrybender Saga #3]
  • Folly and Glory, Novel, 2004 [The Berrybender Saga #4]
  • The Loop Group, Novel, 2005
  • Boone’s Lick, Novel, 2006

David McRaney — 21st Century Author (weblog)

  • You Are Not So Smart, Non-Fiction, 2012

Michael Medved — 20th Century American Movie Critic & Author

  • What Really Happened to the Class of ’65, Non-Fiction (Social Issues)

Ibrahim Abdul Meguid — Twentieth Century Egyptian Writer

  • The House of Jasmine, Novel, 2015

Gita Mehta

  • A River Sutra, Novel, 2000
  • Raj, Novel, 2000

Carlton Mellick III — 21st century American author of Bizarro fiction

  • The Baby Jesus Butt Plug, Novel, 2007
  • Satan Burger, Novel, 2010
  • The Cannibals of Candyland, Novel, 2013
  • Apeshit, Novel, 2013
  • Lemon Knives ‘n’ Cockroaches, Short Novel, 2013
  • Fantastic Orgy, Short Story Collection, 2013
  • Sausagey Santa, Novel, 2013
  • Crab Town, Novel, 2013
  • Christmas on Crack, Short Story Collection, 2013 [ed.]
  • Bucket of Gross, Story, 2013
  • Earwig Flesh Factory, Story, 2013
  • War Slut, Short Novel, 2013
  • Razor Wire Pubic Hair, Short Novel, 2014/2016
  • Zombies and Shit, Novel, 2014
  • Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland, Novel, 2015
  • Barbarian Beast Bitches of the Badlands, Novel, 2016
  • City of New York, Story, 2016
  • A Terrible Thing That Happens, Novel, 2020
  • Sex and Death In Television Town, Novel, 2020
  • Cuddly Holocaust, Novel, 2020
  • Ugly Heaven, Short Novel, 2021

Herman Melville — 19th Century American Novelist

  • Typee, Novel, 1997
  • Bartleby the Scrivener, Short Novel, 1997
  • The Encantadas, Short Novel, 1997
  • Billy Budd, Foretopman, Short Novel, 1997
  • Benito Cereno, Short Novel, 1997
  • Moby Dick, Novel, 1963/2005
  • Redburn, Novel, 1999
  • The Confidence Man, Novel, 2019
  • White Jacket, or, The World On a Man-of-War, Novel, 2020
  • Mardi, and a Voyage Thither, Novel, 2020
  • Pierre, or The Ambiguities, Novel, 2021
  • Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas, Novel, 2022

Pascal Mercier – 21st Century Swiss Author

  • Night Train to Lisbon, Novel, 2010

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

  • Lazarillo de Tormes, Picaresque, 1999

George Meredith

  • The Ordeal of Richard Feveral, Novel, 2020
  • The Egoist, Novel, 2020
  • The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Novel, 2021

Richard C. Meredith

  • No Brother, No Friend, Popular Fiction (Novel)

James Merrill — 20th Century American Poet

  • Braving the Elements, Poetry Collection
  • The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, Poetry Collection
  • The Firescreen, Poetry Collection

Grace Metalious — 20th Century American Author

  • Peyton Place, Novel, 2024

John Metcalf — 21st Century Canadian Author

  • The Museum At the End of the World, Novel, 2021

Metz

  • CBS, Non-Fiction, 1972

Nicholas Meyer

  • The Seven Per-Cent Solution, Mystery Novel, 1972
  • The West End Horror, Mystery Novel, 1973

Gustav Meyrink

  • Valpurgisnacht, Novel 2010
  • The Golem, Novel, 2011
  • The White Dominican, Novel, 2017

Moxie Mezcal — 21st Century American Author

  • Gagaopolis, Story Collection, 2015
  • Concrete Underground, Novel, 2015
  • Home Movie, Short Novel, 2019
  • 1999, Story, 2021

Mian Mian

  • Candy, Novel, 2003

Michaels

  • I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, Science Fiction Story Collection, 1977

James Michener

  • Space, Historical Fiction (Novel)
  • Bridges of Toko-Ri, Historical Fiction (Novel), 1960
  • Centennial, Historical Fiction (Novel), 1988
  • Texas, Historical Fiction (Novel), 1988

China Miéville — 21st Century British Author

  • King Rat, Novel, 2011.2024

Arthur Miller

  • Death of a Salesman, Drama, 1964
  • The Crucible, Drama, 1964

Henry Miller — 20th Century American Author

  • Under the Roofs of Paris, Novel, 2000 (orig. Opus Pistorum)
  • Crazy Cock, Novel, 2001
  • Tropic of Cancer, Novel, 1968/2001
  • Tropic of Capricorn, Novel, 2012
  • Black Spring, Novel, 2017
  • Sexus, Novel, 2021
  • Plexus, Novel, 2021
  • Nexus, Novel, 2021

Walter Miller

  • A Canticle for Leibowitz, Science Fiction Novel, 1977

Kate Millett

  • Sexual Politics, Non-Fiction, 1973

Lydia Millet — 21st Century American Author

  • A Children’s Bible, Novel, 2021

Steven Millhauser

  • Martin Dressler, Novel, 1998

A. A. Milne

  • Winnie-the Pooh, Short Novel (Juvenile), 1955
  • The House on Pooh Corner, Short Novel (Juvenile), 1956

Zygmunt Miloszewski — 21st Century Ukrainian Author

  • Rage, Mystery Novel, 2020
  • Priceless, Novel, 2022

John Milton

  • Comus, 1968, Poem
  • Lycidus, 1968, Poem
  • Paradise Lost, 1968, Poem
  • Samson Agonistes, 1968, Poem

Anchee Min — 20th Century Chinese-American painter, photographer, musician, and author

  • Becoming Madame Mao, Novel

Octave Mirbeau — 19th Century French Author

  • The Torture Garden, Novel, 2008
  • The Diary of a Chambermaid, Novel, 2009

Yukio Mishima — 20th Century Japanese Author

  • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Novel, 1997
  • Acts of Worship: Seven Stories, Short Story Collection, 1999
  • Confessions of a Mask, Novel, 2003
  • The Sound of Waves, Novel, 2006
  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Novel, 2006
  • Spring Snow, Novel, 2013
  • Runaway Horses, Novel, 2015
  • The Temple of Dawn, Novel, 2016
  • The Decay of the Angel, Novel, 2016
  • The Frolic of the Beasts, Novel, 2019

Rohinton Mistry

  • A Fine Balance, Novel, 2006
  • Swimming Lessons, Short Story Collection, 2022

David Mitchell

  • Ghostwritten, Novel, 2005
  • Number 9 Dream, Novel, 2006
  • Black Swan Green, Novel, 2009
  • Slade House, Novel, 2016
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Novel, 2021
  • Cloud Atlas, Novel, 2022
  • Utopia Avenue: A Novel, Novel, 2022
  • The Bone Clocks, Novel, 2022

D. M. Mitchell — 21st Century British Author

  • The Domino Boys, Novel, 2021

Margaret Mitchell — 20th Century American Author

  • Gone With the Wind, Novel, 2014

Helen Mitsios

  • New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan, 1998, Short Story Collection [ed]

Miyuki Miyabe — 20th Century Japanese Author

  • All She Was Worth, Novel, 2004

Patrick Modiano – 21st Century French Author [Nobel Prize for Literature]

  • Du plus loin de l’oubli, Novel, 2010
  • After the Circus, Novel, 2015
  • Paris Nocturne, Novel, 2016
  • Honeymoon, Novel, 2016
  • So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood, Novel, 2016
  • La Place de l’Étoile, Novel, 2016 [Occupation Trilogy]
  • The Night Watch, Novel, 2016 [Occupation Trilogy]
  • Ring Roads, Novel, 2016 [Occupation Trilogy]
  • Villa Triste, Novel, 2016
  • In the Café of Lost Youth, Novel, 2016
  • Young Once, Novel, 2016
  • Sundays In August, Novel, 2018
  • Such Fine Boys, Novel, 2018

Kgebetli Moele — 21st Century South African Author

  • Untitled, Novel, 2017/2022

Jean Baptiste Moliere

  • Misanthrope, Drama, 1968
  • Tartuffe, Drama, 1968

N. Scott Momaday — 20th Century Native American Author

  • House Made of Dawn, Novel, 2014 [Pulitzer Prize]

Michel de Montaigne

  • Of Experience, Essay, 2005
  • Apology for Raymond Sebond, Essay, 2005

Christine Montalbetti – 21st Century French Author

  • Western, Novel, 2010

Quim Monzó — 20th Century Catalan Author

  • Gasoline, Novel, 2019

Rick Moody

  • The Ice Storm, Novel, 2006
  • Hotels of North America, Novel, 2016

Jung Young Moon — 21st Century Korean Author

  • Vaseline Buddha, Novel, 2016
  • Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River, Novel, 2021

Alan Moore

  • Watchmen, Graphic Novel, 2012

Christopher Moore

  • Fool, Novel, 2012
  • Noir: A Novel, Novel, 2022

Alan Moorehead

  • The Blue Nile, 1970, Non-Fiction
  • The White Nile, 1973, Non-Fiction (Science)

Lloyd and Mary Moraine

  • Humanism as the Next Step, Non-Fiction, 2005

Alberto Moravia — 20th Century Italian Author

  • The Empty Canvas, Novel, 1968
  • The Time of Indifference, Novel, 1968
  • The Voyeur, Novel, 1999
  • 1934: A Novel, Novel, 2001
  • The Conformist, Novel, 2008
  • Contempt, Novel, 2020

Silvia Morena-García — 20th Century Mexican/Canadian Author

  • Mexican Gothic, Novel, 2021

Marlo Morgan

  • Mutant Message Down Under, 1998, Popular Fiction (Novel)

Morgan

  • Monster, Poetry Collection

Elaine Morgan

  • The Descent of Woman, Non-Fiction (Science), 1973

Christopher Morely

  • The Haunted Bookshop, Novel, 1998/2020

Liane Moriarty

  • Apples Never Fall, Novel, 2022

September Morn

  • An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet: Housebreaking, Non-Fiction, 2002

David Morrell

  • The Brotherhood of the Rose, Popular Novel, 1987

John Morressy

  • Frostworld and Dreamfire, 1977, Science Fiction Novel
  • Under a Calculating Star, 1977, Science Fiction Novel

Desmond Morris

  • The Naked Ape, 1971, Non-Fiction (Science)
  • Intimate Behavior, 1972, Non-Fiction (Science)

Toni Morrison — 20th Century American Novelist. Nobel Prize.

  • Song of Solomon, Novel, 1994
  • Jazz, Novel, 1995
  • Beloved, Novel, 1995
  • Sula, Novel, 1996
  • Paradise, Novel, 1998
  • The Bluest Eye, Novel, 1999
  • Tar Baby, Novel, 2001
  • Love, Novel, 2005
  • Home, Novel, 2020

Bradford Morrow — 21st Century American Author

  • The Uninnocent, Story Collection, 2021

John Mortimer — 20th Century English Author & Mystery Writer

  • The Pumpkin Eater, Popular Fiction (Novel)
  • Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Mystery Story Collection, 1992
  • Rumpole For the Defense, Mystery Story Collection, 1993

Moses

  • Identities, Poetry Collection

Melanie Mosher — 21st Century Author

  • Goth Girl, Novel, 2022

Farnoosh Moshiri — 20th Century Iranian Author

  • At the Wall of the Almighty, Novel, 2008

Yelena Moskovich — 21st Century Ukraine/American Writer

  • The Natashas, Novel, 2019
  • A Door Behind a Door, Novel, 2023

Hannah Moskowitz — 21st Century American Author (JF)

  • Teeth, Juvenile Novel, 2021/2023

Nicholas Mosley

  • God’s Hazard, novel, 2011

Walter Mosley — 21st Century American Writer

  • Devil in a Blue Dress. Novel, 2019
  • The Red Death, Novel, 2021
  • The White Butterfly, Novel, 2021
  • Black Betty, Novel, 2021
  • 47, Novel, 2023
  • Fearless Jones. Novel, 2024

Sarah Moss — 21st Century British Author

  • Ghost Wall, Novel, 2023

Yukiko Motoya — 21st Century Japanese Author

  • The Lonesome Bodybuilder, short story collection, 2019

Horacio Castellanos Moya — 20th Century Central American Author

  • Senselessness, Novel, 2009
  • The She-Devil in the Mirror, Novel, 2010
  • Dance With Snakes, Novel, 2010
  • Tyrant Memory, Novel, 2012
  • The Dream of My Return, Novel, 2016
  • Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador  Novel, 2020

Mo Yan — 21st Century Chinese Author [Guan Moye: Nobel Prize for Literature]

  • Red Sorghum, Novel, 2008
  • The Garlic Ballads, Novel, 2014
  • The Republic of Wine, Novel, 2016
  • Radish, Short Novel, 2017
  • Pow!, Novel, 2020
  • Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Novel, 2021

Danny Moynihan — 21st Century British Author

  • Boogie-Woogie, Novel, 2013

Moira Mugwani

  • Diary of a Fat Girl, Novel, 2019

Harry Mulisch — 20th Century Dutch Author

  • The Assault, Novel, 2022

Thomas Mullen

  • The Revisionists, Novel, 2020

Marcia Muller — 20/21st Century American Writer

  • Tell Me Who I Am, Story, 2016
  • Edwin of the Iron Shoes, Novel (Detective), 2019
  • The Lighthouse: A Novel of Terror, Novel, 2020 [with Bill Pronzini]

Eddie Mulnix — 21st Century American Writer

  • Highway 126, Short Novel, 2016

Andy Mulvihill (and Jake Rossen) — 21st Century Memorist

  • Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park, Non-Fiction, 2020

Alice Munro — 20th Century Canadian Author

  • Runaway, Story Collection, 2013

Haruki Murakami — 20th Century Japanese Author

  • The Elephant Vanishes, Short Story Collection, 1998
  • A Wild Sheep Chase, Novel, 1998
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun, Novel, 1999
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Novel, 1999
  • Dance Dance Dance, Novel, 1999
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Novel, 2000
  • Norwegian Wood, Novel, 2000
  • Sputnik Sweetheart, Novel, 2002
  • After the Quake, Short Story Collection, 2004
  • Kafka on the Shore, Novel, 2005
  • After Dark, Novel, 2007/2013
  • A Strange Library, Short Novel, 2015
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A Novel, Novel, 2016
  • 1Q84, Novel, 2019
  • Killing Commendatore. Novel, 2020
  • First Person Singular: Stories, Story Collection, 2021

Ryu Murakami — 20th Century Japanese Author

  • Almost Transparent Blue, Novel, 1999
  • Coin Locker Babies, Novel, 2002
  • In the Miso Soup, Novel, 2004
  • 69, Novel, 2007
  • Audition, Novel, 2012
  • Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Novel, 2014
  • Tokyo Decadence, Short Story Collection, 2020
  • Piercing, Novel, 2020

Sayaka Murata

  • Convenience Store Woman, Novel, 2018
  • Earthlings, Novel, 2021

Iris Murdoch — 20th Century Anglo/Irish Author and Philosopher

  • The Sea, The Sea, Novel, 2003
  • The Italian Girl, Novel, 2003
  • The Bell, Novel, 2004
  • Under the Net, Novel, 2005
  • The Severed Head, Novel, 2005
  • The Good Apprentice, Novel 2005
  • The Red and the Green, Novel, 2007
  • Jackson’s Dilemma, Novel, 2007
  • Bruno’s Dream, Novel, 2017
  • The Black Prince, Novel, 2018
  • The Green Knight, Novel, 2021
  • The Flight From the Enchanter, Novel, 2021
  • A Fairly Honorable Defeat, Novel, 2021
  • Nuns and Soldiers, Novel, 2021
  • The Unicorn, Novel, 2022
  • The Time of the Angels, Novel, 2022

Robert Musil

  • The Confusions of Young Törless, Novel, 2006
  • The Man Without Qualities, Novel, 2020

Kate Myles — 21st Century American Author

  • The Receptionist, Novel, 2024

3 thoughts on “Inventory: M

  1. Just in case you only read one, I would go with La Pharisienne (The Woman of the Pharisees) and follow up with Thérèse Desqueyroux. I myself should read more Mauriac.

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