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Mackerel By Moonlight (1998) - William F. Weld (-)  (Grade:C)

Madame Bovary (1857) - Gustave Flaubert (12/12/1821 -5/08/1880)  (Grade:B+)

Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (2000) - Bob Woodward (1943-)  (Grade:B+)

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty (2016) - Dan Jones (07/27/1981 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) - Newton Booth Tarkington (07/29/1869 -05/19/1946)  (Grade:A)

The Magus (1965) - John Fowles (03/31/1926 -11/05/2005)  (Grade:C)

Maigret in Montmartre (1959) - Georges Simenon (02/13/1903 -09/04/1989)  (Grade:A)

Main Street (1920) - Sinclair Lewis (2/07/1885 -1/10/1951)  (Grade:C)

Making Hay (1997) - Verlyn Klinkenborg ( -1952)  (Grade:C+)

Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009) - Gregory Maguire (06/09/1954-)  (Grade:C+)

Making Patriots (2001) - Walter Berns (5/03/1919 -1/10/2015)  (Grade:A)

The Maltese Falcon (1930) - Dashiell Hammett (5/27/1894 -1/10/1961) (Grade:A+)

A Man for All Seasons (1960) - Robert Bolt (8/15/1924 -2/21/1995) (Grade:A+)

A Man In Full (1998) - Tom Wolfe (3/02/1931 -5/14/2018) (Grade:A-)

My Struggle: Book 2 A Man in Love (2010) - Karl Ove Knausgaard (12/06/1960 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Man in the High Castle (1962) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:C)

The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times (2006) - Anthony DePalma (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1972) - Marilyn Durham (1930-)  (Grade:B+)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: and A Man Called Horse, Lost Sister, The Hanging Tree (2005) - Dorothy Marie Johnson (12/19/1905-11/11/1984)  (Grade:A)

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander Mysteries) (1994) - Henning Mankell (02/03/1948-)  (Grade:B)

The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare (1908) - G. K. Chesterton (05/29/1874 -06/14/1936)  (Grade:A-)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - Nelson Algren (3/28/1909 -5/09/1981)  (Grade:C)

The Man Without a Country (1863) - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)  (Grade:A+)

Mandarin Gate (2012) - Elliot Pattison (10/20/1951-)  (Grade:A)

Manliness (2006) - Harvey C. Mansfield (3/21/1932 -)  (Grade:B)

Mantle of the Prophet : Religion and Politics in Iran (1985) - Roy Mottahedeh (1940-)  (Grade:B)

The Man Who Would Be King (1888) - Rudyard Kipling (12/30/1865 -1/18/1936) (Grade:A+)

A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) - James Cowan (-) (Grade:A+)

Who Really Won the Battle of Marathon?: A bold re-appraisal of one of history’s most famous battles (2020) - Constantinos Lagos (-) (Grade:A)

Mariette in Ecstasy (1991) - Ron Hansen (1947-)  (Grade:A+)

The Mark of the Assassin (1998) - Daniel Silva ( -)  (Grade:C)

Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 (2006) - Eamon Duffy (1947 -)  (Grade:A)

Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! (2010) - Douglas Coupland (12/30/1961-)  (Grade:B)

The Martian (2011) - Andy Weir ( -)  (Grade:A)

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) - Steven Millhauser (8/03/1943 -) (Grade:A+)

Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War (1993) - Michael Kelly (-) (Grade:A+)

Master and Commander (1969) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A+)

The Master Puppeteer (1975) - Katherine Paterson (1932-)  (Grade:B+)

The Match: the day the game of golf changed forever (2007) - Mark Frost (11/25/1953-)  (Grade:A)

A Mathematician's Apology (1940) - G. H. Hardy (1877-1947)  (Grade:C+)

Maus (1992) - Art Spiegelman (-)  (Grade:A)

Maximum Bob (1991) - Elmore Leonard (10/11/1925 -08/20/2013)  (Grade:B-)

Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair (1986) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-)  (Grade:A)

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928)  (Grade:B)

Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy (2002) - Andro Linklater (-)  (Grade:A-)

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002) - Todd Gitlin (1/06/1943 -2/05/2022)  (Grade:C-)

Memoir from Antproof Case (1995) - Mark Helprin (06/28/1947 -)  (Grade:B-)

Memoir on Pauperism (1835) - Alexis De Tocqueville (7/29/1805 -4/16/1859) (Grade:A+)

Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) - Arthur Golden (-) (Grade:C)

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (1943) - Albert Jay Nock (10/13/1870 -8/19/1945)  (Grade:A+)

Memoirs of Hadrian (1951) - Marguerite Yourcenar (6/08/1903 -12/17/1987)  (Grade:C+)

Men at Arms (Volume One of the Sword of Honour Trilogy) (1952) - Evelyn Waugh (10/28/1903 -04/10/1966)  (Grade:A-)

Men in Black (1995) - Scott Spencer (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Metamorphosis; and other stories (1915) - Franz Kafka (07/03/1883 -06/03/1924)  (Grade:C+)

The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America (2001) - Louis Menand ( -)  (Grade:B)

Metropolis () - Philip Kerr (1956-)  (Grade:A)

The Meursault Investigation (2013) - Kamel Daoud (06/17/1970 -)  (Grade:B-)

Mexican Hat (1997) - Michael McGarrity (-)  (Grade:B+)

Miami and the Siege of Chicago : An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 (1968) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:C)

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary : The First Dictionary for the Internet Age (2001) - Anne Soukhanov (-)  (Grade:C)

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (2007) - Mark Penn (-)  (Grade:B)

The Middle Kingdom Ride (2013) - Ryan Pyle (-)  (Grade:B)

The Middle of the Night (2003) - Daniel Stolar (-)  (Grade:B-)

Middle Passage (1990) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)  (Grade:C)

The Midnight House (2010) - Alex Berenson (-)  (Grade:B+)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story (1994) - John Berendt (-)  (Grade:C-)

Midnight's Children (1980) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:C-)

Midwives: A Novel (1997) - Chris Bohjalian (-)  (Grade:C)

The Miernik Dossier (1973) - Charles McCarry (1930-)  (Grade:A)

All the Way Down (1953) - M. E. Chaber (7/25/1910-11/29/1981)  (Grade:A-)

The Minority Report (1954) - Phillip K. Dick (12/26/1928 -3/02/1982)  (Grade:B)

Miracle on the Gridiron (2009) - Jim Black (1953 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Mismeasure of Man (1981) - Stephen Jay Gould (-)  (Grade:F)

Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) - Nathanael West (1902-1940)  (Grade:B)

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (2004) - Alafair S. Burke (-)  (Grade:B+)

Mister Roberts (1946) - Thomas Heggen (-)  (Grade:B+)

Mixed Nuts: America's Love Affair with Comedy Teams from Burns and Allen to Belushi and Aykroyd (2004) - Lawrence J. Epstein (-)  (Grade:A)

Moby Dick, or The Whale (1851) - Herman Melville (8/01/1819 -9/28/1891)  (Grade:A)

Modern and American Dignity : Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future (2010) - Peter Augustine Lawler (07/30/1951 -05/23/2017) (Grade:A+)

The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970) (Grade:A-)

Modern Times () - Paul Johnson (11/02/1928 -1/12/2023)  (Grade:A+)

The Monkey House (1996) - John Fullerton (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Monkey's Raincoat (1988) - Robert Crais (6/20/1953 -)  (Grade:B+)

Monkey: A Folk Novel of China () - Ch'Eng-En Wu (c. 1500-1582)  (Grade:C)

The Monkey's Paw (1902) - W. W. Jacobs (9/08/1863-9/01/1943)  (Grade:B+)

Monotheism in Kentucky, Present Time (poem) (2014) - Maurice Manning (1966-)  (Grade:A-)

The Month of the Leopard (2001) - James Harland (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Moon and Sixpence (1919) - W. Somerset Maugham (1/25/1874 -12/16/1965)  (Grade:C+)

The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass : A Flyrodder's Odyssey at Montauk Point (2001) - Peter Kaminsky (-)  (Grade:A)

Moon Tiger (1987) - Penelope Lively (1933-)  (Grade:B-)

Moonshine: : A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor () - Alec Wilkinson (3/29/1952-)  (Grade:A-)

The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) - Salman Rushdie (6/19/1947 -)  (Grade:D)

GAME: MooT (1998) - Jon Steeves (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Moral Foundations of Economic Behavior (2011) - David C Rose (-)  (Grade:A)

The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism (1994) - Katie Roiphe (-)  (Grade:B)

Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976) - Richard Selzer (1928-)  (Grade:B-)

Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe (2001) - Michael D'Antonio (-) - Andrew Spielman (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Most Dangerous Game (1924) - Richard Connell (10/17/1893 -11/22/1949)  (Grade:A+)

Moth Smoke (2000) - Mohsin Hamid (7/23/1971 -)  (Grade:A)

Mother's Milk (2005) - Patrick St Aubyn (1960 -)  (Grade:B-)

Motherless Brooklyn (1999) - Jonathan Lethem (1964 -)  (Grade:C)

The Mouse That Roared (1955) - Leonard Wibberley (1915-1983)  (Grade:A)

Move Closer : An Intimate Philosophy of Art (2000) - John Armstrong (1966-)  (Grade:C)

The Moviegoer (1961) - Walker Percy (05/28/1916 -05/10/1990)  (Grade:C+)

Moving Mars (1993) - Greg Bear (1951-)  (Grade:B+)

Mozart: A Novel (2004) - Robert Howse (1958-)  (Grade:B-)

Mr. Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power, and Theatre on the Bounty (1992) - Greg Dening (-)  (Grade:A-)

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (1898) - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)  (Grade:C+)

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1948) - C.S. Forester (8/27/1899 -4/02/1966)  (Grade:A)

Mrs. Bridge (1959) - Evan S. Connell (8/17/1924 -1/10/2013)  (Grade:A-)

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) - Robert C. O'Brien (1918-1973)  (Grade:A+)

The Mummy Congress : Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (2001) - Heather Pringle (-)  (Grade:A-)

Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - T. S. Eliot (9/26/1888 -1/04/1965)  (Grade:A-)

Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder (1991) - Samuel Wilson Fussell (1958-)  (Grade:A)

The Muse Asylum (2001) - David Czuchlewski (-)  (Grade:A)

The Music of Chance (1990) - Paul Auster (2/03/1947 -4/30/2024)  (Grade:A-)

The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe (1993) - Jamie James (-)  (Grade:A+)

My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message (2003) - Amitai Etzioni (1/24/1929 -5/31/2023)  (Grade:B)

My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy (2001) - Wen Ho Lee (-)  (Grade:F)

My Declaration of Independence (2001) - James M. Jeffords (1934-)  (Grade:F)

My Dream of You (2001) - Nuala O'Faolain (-)  (Grade:D)

My Goodness : A Cynic's Shortlived Search for Sainthood (2000) - Joe Queenan (1950-)  (Grade:A)

My Love Affair With America : The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative (2000) - Norman Podhoretz (1/16/1930 -)  (Grade:C)

My Planet : Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (2013) - Mary Roach ( 03/29/1959 -)  (Grade:A)

My Utmost for His Highest (1927) - Oswald Chambers (07/24/1874-1917)  (Grade:A-)

My Dog Tulip (1956) - J. R. Ackerley (11/04/1896-6/04/1967)  (Grade:C-)

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2009) - Charlie Huston (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain (2016) - Dario Fernandez-Morera ( -)  (Grade:A)

The Myth of Digital Democracy (2009) - Matthew Hindman (1976-)  (Grade:B+)

The Myth of Sisyphus (1955) - Albert Camus (11/07/1913 -1/04/1960)  (Grade:B-)