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- Various Authors, Welsh (Celtic), 14th C.
- Mabinogion. Recommended by: Ward
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, English, 1800-1859.
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, Scottish, 1892-1978.
- Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Macdonald, George, Scottish, 1824-1905.
- Lilith. Recommended by: Bloom
- At the Back of the North Wind. Recommended by: Bloom
- Machado, Antonio, Spanish, 1875-1939.
- Juan de Mairena. Recommended by: Ward
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, Italian, 1469-1527.
- MacInnes, Colin, English, 1914-1976.
- The London Novels (Trilogy). Recommended by: Burgess
- Mack, David, American, 1972- .
- Kabuki, Circle of Blood (Edited by Connie Jiang). Recommended
by: Harvard
- Mackey, Nathaniel, American, 1947- .
- Bedouin Hornbook/Djbot Baghostus' Run. Recommended by:
Utne
- MacKinnon, Catharine, American, 1946- .
- Feminism Unmodified. Recommended by: Colcc91
- MacLachlan, Patricia, American, 1938- .
- Sarah, Plain and Tall. Recommended by: NYPL
- MacLean, Norman, American, 1902-1990.
- MacLean, Fitzroy, Scottish, 1911-1996.
- MacNeice, Louis, English, 1907-1963.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Macpherson, Jay, Canadian, 1931- .
- Poems Twice Told. Recommended by: Bloom
- Madison, James, See Hamilton,
Alexander
- Maeterlinck, Maurice, Belgian, 1862-1949. Nobel Laureate
- The Life of the Bee. Recommended by: NYPL
- Mahabharata, See Vyasa
- Various Authors, Indians writing in Pali, 480 BCEff.
- Mahaparinibbana Sutta. Recommended by: StJE
- Various Authors, Indians writing in Pali, 4th C BCE?.
- Mahasatipatthana Sutta. Recommended by: Oriental
- Mahfuz, Najib (Mahfouz, Naguib), Egyptian (Arabic), 1911?-2006. Nobel
Laureate
- Midaq Alley. Recommended by: Bloom
- Fountain and Tomb. Recommended by: Bloom
- Miramar. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Cairo Trilogy. Recommended by: Utne
- Children of Gebelawi. Recommended by: Meaningful
- The Harafish. Recommended by: Smiley
- Mahler-Werfel, Alma, Austrian, 1879-1964.
- Mailer, Norman, American, 1923-2007.
- Maimonides, Jew in Islamic Spain and Egypt writing in Arabic and Hebrew,
1135-1204.
- Malamud, Bernard, American, 1914-1986.
- Malcolm X, See X,
Malcolm
- Malcolm, Janet, American, 1935?- .
- Mallarmé, Stéphane, French, 1842-1898.
- Selected Poems and Prose. Recommended by: Bloom
- Malone, Dumas, American, 1892-1986.
- Malory, Thomas, English, d. 1471.
- Malouf, David, Australian, 1934- .
- An Imaginary Life. Recommended by: Bloom
- Malraux, André, French, 1901-1975.
- Malthus, Thomas, English, 1766-1834.
- Mamet, David, American, 1947- .
- American Buffalo. Recommended by: Bloom
- Speed-the-Plow. Recommended by: Bloom
- Manchester, William, American, 1922-2004.
- Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich, Russian, 1891-1938.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Mann, Thomas, German, 1875-1955. Nobel Laureate
- Manning, Olivia, English, 1915-1980.
- The Balkan Trilogy. Recommended by: Burgess
- Manrique, Jorge, Spanish, ca. 1440-ca. 1479.
- Coplas. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mansfield, Katherine, New Zealander, 1888-1923.
- The Short Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
- Manu, Indian writing in Sanskrit, 2nd Millennium BCE? .
- Institutes of Manu. Recommended by: StJE
- Various Authors, Japanese, 7th-8th C.
- Manzoni, Alessandro, Italian, 1785-1873.
- I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Recommended by: Bloom Ward
- On the Historical Novel. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Chinese, 1893-1976.
- Marcos, Subcomandante, Mexican, 1957- .
- Marcus Aurelius, Roman writing in Greek, 121-180.
- Marcuse, Herbert, German-American writing in English, 1898-1979.
- Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud.
Recommended by: LAT
- Marek, George R., Austrian, 1902-1987.
- The Eagles Die: Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and Their Austria.
Recommended by: Harvard
- Marguerite de Navarre, French, 1492-1549.
- Margulis, Lynn and Dorion Sagan, American, 1938- and 1959-.
- What is Life?. Recommended by: Utne
- Maritain, Jacques, French, 1882-1973.
- Art and Scholasticism. Recommended by: Adler
- The Degrees of Knowledge. Recommended by: Adler
- The Rights of Man and Natural Law. Recommended by: Adler
- True Humanism. Recommended by: Adler
- Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblin de, French, 1688-1763.
- Seven Comedies. Recommended by: Bloom
- Up From the Country. Recommended by: Ward
- Markham, Beryl, English, 1902-1986.
- Marlowe, Christopher, English, 1564-1593.
- Complete Plays. Recommended by: Bloom Ward
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Marquand, John P., American, 1893-1960.
- H. M. Pulham, Esquire. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Late George Apley. Recommended by: BOMC
- Marsh, Dave, American, 1950- .
- The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever
Made. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Marston, John, English, ca. 1575-1634.
- The Malcontent. Recommended by: Bloom
- Martial, Roman, ca. 42-ca. 102 CE.
- Epigrams. Recommended by: Bloom
- Martin of Dacia (a.k.a. Martin of Denmark), Danish writing in Latin, d.
1304.
- Tractus de Modis Significandi. Recommended by: Aquinas
- Martin Du Gard, Roger, French, 1881-1958. Nobel Laureate
- Martinson, Harry, Swedish, 1904-1978. Nobel Laureate
- Marvell, Andrew, English, 1621-1678.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom SJC
- Marx, Karl, German, 1818-1883.
(See also Marx, Karl and
Friedrich Engels)
- Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels, German, 1818-1883 and 1820-1895.
(See
also Marx, Karl
and Friedrich
Engels)
- Marx, Leo, American, 1919- .
- Maslow, Abraham, American, 1908-1970.
- Motivation and Personality. Recommended by: Boston
PL
- Massinger, Philip, English, 1583-1640.
- A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Recommended by: Bloom
- Masters, Edgar Lee, American, 1868-1950.
- Spoon River Anthology. Recommended by: Bloom
- Masters, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson, American, 1915-2001 and
1925-.
- Human Sexual Response. Recommended by: LAT
- Matthiessen, Peter, American, 1927- .
- The Snow Leopard. Recommended by: LAT
- In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
- Maturin, Charles, Irish, 1782-1824.
- Melmoth the Wanderer. Recommended by: Bloom
- Maugham, W. Somerset, English, 1874-1939.
- Of Human Bondage. Recommended by: Harvard ML
Novels
- Collected Short Stories. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Moon and Sixpence. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Razor's Edge. Recommended by: Burgess
- Maupassant, Guy de, French, 1850-1893.
- Mauriac, François, French, 1885-1970. Nobel Laureate
- Therese. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Desert of Love. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Woman of the Pharisees. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mauss, Marcel, French, 1872-1950.
- The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic
Societies. Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
- Maxwell, James Clerk, Scottish, 1831-1879.
- May, Rollo, American, 1909-1994.
- Maya, Maya (Mexico and Central America), 4th-15th C.
- Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich, Russian, 1893-1930.
- The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Recommended by: Bloom
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Mayer, Edwin Justus, American, 1896-1960.
- Children of Darkness. Recommended by: Bloom
- McCarthy, Cormac, American, 1933- .
- Blood Meridian. Recommended by: Bloom Time
- Suttree. Recommended by: Bloom
- Child of God. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Crossing. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
- McCarthy, Mary, American, 1912-1989.
- The Groves of Academe. Recommended by: Burgess
- McClatchy, J. D., American, 1945- .
- The Rest of the Way. Recommended by: Bloom
- McCloud, Scott, American, 1960- .
- McCourt, James, American, 1941- .
- Time Remaining. Recommended by: Bloom
- McCoy, Alfred, American, 1945- .
- McCullers, Carson, American, 1917-1967.
- McCullough, David, American, 1933- .
- McEwan, Ian, English, 1948- .
- McGinniss, Joe, American, 1942- .
- The Selling of the President 1968. Recommended by: LAT
- McNeill, William H., American, 1917- .
- McPherson, James M., American, 1936- .
- McWilliams, Carey, American, 1905-1980.
- Mead, Margaret, American, 1901-1978.
- Meaker, Marijane, American, 1927- .
- Shockproof Sydney Skate. Recommended by: Harvard
- Medawar, Peter B., English, 1915-1987.
- Various Authors writing in Latin, Latin, 6th-13th C.
- Mediaeval Latin Lyrics (Ed. by Helen Waddell). Recommended by:
Rex Ward
- Various Authors, Various Nations, Various, 3rd-15th C.
- Medieval Literature in Translation. Recommended by: Ward
- Mello Breyner, Sophia de, Portuguese, 1919- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Melville, Herman, American, 1819-1891.
- Menander, Greek, 343-292 BCE.
- Girl from Samos. Recommended by: Bloom
- Menchu, Rigoberta, Guatemalan, 1959- .
- Mencius (Mengzi), Chinese, ca. 400-320 BCE.
- Mencken, H. L., American, 1880-1956.
- Mendel, Gregor, Austrian, 1822-1884.
- Mendele Mokher Seforim, Russian writing in Yiddish, 1835-1917.
- The Travels and Adventures of Benjamin the Third. Recommended
by: Bloom
- Meredith, George, English, 1828-1909.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Egoist. Recommended by: Bloom
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, French, 1908-1961.
- Merrill, James, American, 1926-1995.
- From the First Nine. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Changing Light at Sandover. Recommended by: Bloom
- Merton, Thomas, American, 1915-1968.
- Merwin, W. S., American, 1927- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Lice: Poems. Recommended by: LAT
- Metalious, Grace, American, 1924-1964.
- Peyton Place. Recommended by: NYPL
- Michaux, Henri, French, 1899-1984.
- Selected Writings. Recommended by: Bloom
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475-1564.
- Michitsuna no Haha, Japanese, ca. 935-995.
- The Gossamer Years. Recommended by: MW Asian
- Mickiewicz, Adam Bernard, Polish, 1798-1855.
- Pan Tadeusz. Recommended by: Ward
- Middleton, Thomas and William Rowley, English, 1580-1627 and ca.
1585-1626.
- The Changeling. Recommended by: Bloom
- Milarepa, Tibetan, 1052-1135.
- Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa. Recommended by: Ward
- Anonymous, Indian writing in Pali, 2nd-1st C BCE.
- Mill, John Stuart, English, 1806-1873.
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, American, 1892-1950.
- Renascence and Other Poems. Recommended by: NYPL
- Miller, Alice, Swiss writing in German, 1923- .
- The Drama of the Gifted Child. Recommended by: Utne
- Miller, Arthur, American, 1915-2005.
- Death of a Salesman. Recommended by: Bloom
- Miller, Henry, American, 1891-1980.
- Millikan, Robert, American, 1868-1953.
- The Electron. Recommended by: SJC
(Selections)
- Mills, C. Wright, American, 1916-1962.
- Milne, A. A., English, 1882-1956.
- Milosz, Czeslaw, Polish, 1911-2004. Nobel Laureate
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Captive Mind. Recommended by: TLS
- Milton, John, English, 1608-1674.
- Mirsky, D. S., Prince, Russian, 1890-1939.
- A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900.
Recommended by: Counterpunch Trans
- Mises, Ludwig von, Austrian, 1881-1973.
- Mishima Yukio, Japanese, 1925-1970.
- Confessions of a Mask. Recommended by: Fadiman 4
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Recommended by: Fadiman 4
- Spring Snow. Recommended by: Ward
- Runaway Horses. Recommended by: Ward
- Temple of Dawn. Recommended by: Ward
- Decay of the Angel. Recommended by: Ward
- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Recommended by: MW Asian Smiley
- Mistral, Frédéric, French, 1830-1914. Nobel Laureate
- Mistral, Gabriela, Chilean, 1889-1957. Nobel Laureate
- Mistry, Rohinton, Indo-Canadian, 1952- .
- A Fine Balance. Recommended by: Smiley
- Mitchell, Joseph, American, 1908-1996.
- Mitchell, Margaret, American, 1900-1949.
- Mitford, Nancy, English, 1904-1973.
- The Pursuit of Love. Recommended by: Smiley
- Love in a Cold Climate. Recommended by: Smiley
- Don't Tell Alfred. Recommended by: Smiley
- Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese, 1584-1645.
- Miyazawa, Kenji, Japanese, 1896-1933.
- Spring and Asura. Recommended by: Utne
- Various Authors writing in Arabic, Arab, 20th C.
- Modern Arab Poets, 1950-1975. Recommended by: Ward
- Various Authors, Czech, 20th C.
- Modern Czech Poetry. Recommended by: Ward
- Various Authors, Hungarian, 20th C.
- Modern Hungarian Poetry. Recommended by: Ward
- Various Authors, Spanish, 20th C.
- Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology of Plays. Recommended by:
Ward
- Molière, French, 1622-1673.
- Molina, Tirso de, Spanish, 1583-1648.
- Momaday, N. Scott, American, 1934- .
- Mommsen, Theodor, German, 1817-1903. Nobel Laureate
- Montague, John, Irish, 1929- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, French, 1533-1592.
- Montale, Eugenio, Italian, 1896-1971. Nobel Laureate
- The Storm and Other Things: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Occasions: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Cuttlefish Bones: Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Otherwise: Last and First Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays. Recommended by: Bloom
- Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de, French, 1689-1755.
- Spirit of the Laws. Recommended by: Adler GBWW Ward
- Persian Letters. Recommended by: Adler
- Montessori, Maria, Italian, 1870-1952.
- The Montessori Method. Recommended by: Boston
PL
- Moore, Alan, English, 1953- .
- The Watchmen (With Dave Gibbons). Recommended by: Time
- Moore, Brian, Canadian, 1921-1999.
- The Doctor's Wife. Recommended by: Burgess
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. Recommended by: BOMC
- Moore, G. E., English, 1873-1958.
- Moore, Marianne, American, 1887-1972.
- Complete Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Moore, Terry, American, 1954- .
- Strangers in Paradise. Recommended by: Harvard
- Morante, Elsa, Italian, 1918-1985.
- Moravia, Alberto, Italian, 1907-1990.
- 1934. Recommended by: Bloom
- More, St./Sir Thomas, English writing in Latin, ca. 1477-1535.
- Morgan, Robin, See Sisterhood is
Powerful
- Morgan, Thomas Hunt, American, 1866-1945.
- A Critique of the Theory of Evolution. Recommended by: Boston
PL
- Morgann, Maurice, English, 1726-1802.
- An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff.
Recommended by: Bloom
- Mörike, Eduard, German, 1804-1875.
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mozart on His Way to Prague. Recommended by: Bloom
- Morison, Samuel Eliot, American, 1887-1976.
- The Oxford History of the American People. Recommended by: Fadiman 3
- Morris, Edmund, American, 1940- .
- Morris, William, English, 1834-1896.
- Early Romances. Recommended by: Bloom
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Earthly Paradise. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Well at the World's End. Recommended by: Bloom
- News from Nowhere. Recommended by: Bloom
- Morris, Wright, American, 1910-1998.
- Ceremony in Lone Tree. Recommended by: Bloom
- Field of Vision. Recommended by: Hungry Mind
- Morrison, Toni, American, 1931- . Nobel Laureate
- Morse, Edward S., American, 1838-1925.
- Moses de Leon, See Zohar
- Moss, Howard, American, 1922- .
- New Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Moss, Thylias, American, 1954- .
- Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mozi (Mo Tzu), Chinese, ca. 470-ca. 391 BCE.
- Mrozek, Slawomir, Polish, 1930- .
- Tango. Recommended by: Ward
- The Ugupu Bird. Recommended by: Ward
- Muggeridge, Malcolm, English, 1903-1990.
- Muir, Edwin, Scottish, 1887-1959.
- Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Muldoon, Paul, Irish, 1951- .
- Selected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mumford, Lewis, American, 1895-1990.
- Munro, Alice, Canadian, 1931- .
- Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lives of Girls and Women. Recommended by: Smiley
- Munro, H. H., See Saki
- Murakami, Haruki, Japanese, 1949- .
- The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Recommended by: Harvard
- Wild Sheep Chase. Recommended by: Harvard
- Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese, ca. 976-1015.
- Murdoch, Iris, English, 1919-1999.
- Under the Net. Recommended by: ML
Novels Time
- The Sea, the Sea. Recommended by: Smiley
- The Good Apprentice. Recommended by: Bloom
- Bruno's Dream. Recommended by: Bloom
- The Bell. Recommended by: Burgess
- Murphy, Michael, American, 1930- .
- Golf in the Kingdom. Recommended by: Utne
- Murray, Les A., Australian, 1938- .
- The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Musil, Robert, Edler von, Austrian, 1880-1932.
- Musset, Alfred de, French, 1810-1857.
- Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
- Lorenzaccio. Recommended by: Bloom
- Mutanabbi, al-, Arab, 915-965.
- Poems. Recommended by: Ward
- Myrdal, Gunnar, Swedish, 1898-1987.
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