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ALPHABETICAL

My Husband
Maud Ventura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

My Husband's Wife
Jane Corry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

My Inventions
Nikola Tesla

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Italian Bulldozer (Paul Stuart, #1)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Jim
Nancy Rawles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

My Killer Vacation
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

My Lady Jane
Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Lady Ludlow
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

My Last Duchess
Daisy Goodwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Last Innocent Year
Daisy Alpert Florin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Left Foot
Christy Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1954

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Kabi Nagata, Jocelyne Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

My Life
Bill Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1933

My Life And Work (The Autobiography Of Henry Ford)
Henry Ford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

My Life as a Book
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

My Life as a Man
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

My Life as a Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

My Life in France
Julia Child

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
Indra Nooyi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Amos Tutuola

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

My Life Next Door
Huntley Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

My Life (The Art of the Novella series)
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

My Life with the Saints
James Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

My Life with the Walter Boys
Fallzswimmer, Ali Novak

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

My Lives
Edmund White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

My Lord The Baby
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

My Losing Season
Pat Conroy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

My Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

My Marriage (New York Review Books Classics)
Jakob Wassermann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Mechanical Romance
Alexene Farol Follmuth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

My Most Excellent Year
Steve Kluger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

My Murder
Katie Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Name is Aram
William Saroyan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1940

My Name Is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

My Name Is Barbra
Barbra Streisand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

My Name is Leon
Kit de Waal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

My Name is Mary Sutter
Robin Oliveira

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Name Is Memory
Ann Brashares

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

My Name Is Not Easy
Debby Dahl Edwardson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Name is Parvana
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Name is Resolute
Nancy E. Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Not So Perfect Life
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

My Old True Love
Sheila Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

My Own Country
Abraham Verghese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

My Own Story
Emmeline Pankhurst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

My Oxford Year
Julia Whelan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Plain Jane
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

My Policeman
Bethan Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

My Real Children
Jo Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Roommate Is a Vampire
Jenna Levine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

My Sergei: A Love Story
Ekaterina Gordeeva, E.M. Swift

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

My Side of the Matter
Truman Capote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1959

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

My Sister, My Love
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

My Sister Rosa
Justine Larbalestier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

My Sister's Grave
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Sister's GraveG
Robert Dugoni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

My Soul is Rested
Howell Raines

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

My Soul to Save
Rachel Vincent

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

My Squirrel Days
Ellie Kemper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Mysteries of Thorn Manor
Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Mysterious Kor
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Mysterious Skin
Scott Heim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Mystery at Lake Placid
Roy MacGregor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park
Aaron Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Mystery Man
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Mystery of the Haunted Pool
Phyllis A. Whitney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

Mystic River
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

My Story
Julia Gillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

My Sweet Audrina
V.C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

My Sweet Orange Tree
Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

My Temptation
T.L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)
Robert Holdstock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World)
Mircea Eliade

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

My Thirteenth Winter
Samantha Abeel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Mythologies
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972