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May I Ask for One Final Thing?
May I Ask for One Final Thing? (最後にひとつだけお願いしてもよろしいでしょうか, Saihito) is a Japanese light novel series by Nana Ōtori, published by AlphaPolis from 2018, adapted into a Sora Honoki manga and a 2025 Liden Films TV anime about the duke's daughter Scarlet punching corrupt nobles.
Mayo Chiki!
Mayo Chiki! (まよチキ!), full title Mayoeru Shitsuji to Chikin na Ore to, is a 12-volume MF Bunko J light novel series by Hajime Asano about a gynophobic boy who discovers his butler classmate is a girl; adapted to manga and a 2011 feel. anime.
Me Before You
Me Before You is Jojo Moyes' 2012 romance novel, over 16 million copies sold, about caregiver Lou Clark and quadriplegic Will Traynor's assisted death at Dignitas; its 2016 Thea Sharrock film starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin grossed $208 million and sparked disability-led protests.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a 1930 novel by Siegfried Sassoon, the second of his three fictionalized autobiographies about his wartime alter ego George Sherston.
Millennium (novel series)
Millennium (Millenniumserien, Millennium Trilogy): Swedish crime series by Stieg Larsson, published posthumously 2005-2007, featuring Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander; over 100 million copies sold and continued by David Lagercrantz and Karin Smirnoff.
Mistborn
Mistborn is Brandon Sanderson's epic fantasy series begun with The Final Empire (2006), set in the Cosmere, featuring the metallic arts Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy, seven published novels across two eras, over 17 million copies sold, and an Apple TV film adaptation in development.
Mistborn: Shadows of Self
Shadows of Self (Mistborn: Shadows of Self), Brandon Sanderson's 2015 Tor fantasy novel, book two of the Wax and Wayne series: Wax investigates the kandra Bleeder amid terrorism in industrial Elendel, three hundred years after the original Mistborn trilogy.
Mistborn: The Alloy of Law
Mistborn: The Alloy of Law (2011) is Brandon Sanderson's Tor-published fantasy novel opening Mistborn Era Two, set 300 years after the original trilogy, following Twinborn lawman Waxillium Ladrian in Elendel against the Vanishers.
Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn: The Bands of Mourning is Brandon Sanderson's 2016 Tor fantasy novel, the third Wax and Wayne Mistborn book, following Waxillium Ladrian's hunt for the Lord Ruler's legendary metalminds in industrial-era Scadrial.
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) is Brandon Sanderson's fantasy novel opening the Mistborn trilogy, set on Scadrial where Vin and Kelsier use Allomancy, metal-burning magic, against the immortal Lord Ruler; later retitled Mistborn in US editions and slated for an Apple TV film.
Mitch Rapp
Mitch Rapp is a fictional CIA counterterrorism operative created by Vince Flynn in Transfer of Power (1999); the thriller series now spans 24 novels by Flynn, Kyle Mills, and Don Bentley, with a 2017 film adaptation.
Mort
Mort (1987) is Terry Pratchett's Discworld comic fantasy in which the boy Mort becomes Death's apprentice, spares Princess Keli, and launches the Death sub-series; first Gollancz hardback, Josh Kirby cover.
Murtagh (novel)
Murtagh is a 2023 epic fantasy novel by Christopher Paolini, set in the World of Eragon one year after Inheritance, following Eragon's half brother Murtagh and his dragon Thorn.
My Beautiful Man (美しい彼)
My Beautiful Man (美しい彼) is a Japanese boys' love novel series by Nagira Yuu with over 1.3 million copies in circulation, adapted into television dramas and a 2023 film.
My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World
My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World (鍛冶屋ではじめる異世界スローライフ) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Tamamaru and Kinta about Eizo, a reincarnated engineer with cheat blacksmithing skills, running a quiet forge; published by Kadokawa, licensed in English by J-Novel Club, with a Yoshino Himori manga.
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's (暗殺者である俺のステータスが勇者よりも明らかに強いのだが, Sutetsuyo) is a Japanese isekai series by Matsuri Akai: web novel 2017, Overlap light novel, Aigamo manga, and a 2025 Sunrise anime.
My Struggle (Knausgård novels)
My Struggle (Norwegian: Min kamp) is a six-volume autobiographical novel series by Karl Ove Knausgård, published in Norway from 2009 to 2011 and known as a defining work of autofiction.
Nana (novel)
Nana (1880) is the ninth novel of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, following Anna Coupeau, daughter of Gervaise, from the Théâtre des Variétés to courtesan power over Paris, ending with the Empire's collapse and her smallpox death.
Neapolitan Novels
The Neapolitan Novels are Elena Ferrante's four-volume series (My Brilliant Friend through The Story of the Lost Child, 2011–2014) tracing Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo's lifelong friendship in Naples, sold in millions of copies and adapted by HBO.
Nemesis Games
Nemesis Games (2015) is the fifth Expanse novel by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), published by Orbit. The Rocinante crew splits into separate POV storylines as asteroids strike Earth; adapted as The Expanse season 5.
New Spring
New Spring is a 2004 prequel novel by Robert Jordan to his Wheel of Time fantasy series, telling how Moiraine Damodred and Lan Mandragoran met and began the search for the Dragon Reborn.
Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden
Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden (凶乱令嬢ニア・リストン) is a Japanese light novel series by Umikaze Minamino about a god-slaying hero reincarnated as a sickly noble girl; published by Hobby Japan (HJ Bunko), translated by J-Novel Club, adapted as a TV anime premiering October 6, 2026.
Night Watch (Pratchett novel)
Night Watch is a 2002 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty-ninth Discworld book, following Sam Vimes thrown thirty years into his city's past.
Night Watch (Ночной Дозор) (Lukyanenko novel)
Night Watch (Ночной Дозор) is Sergei Lukyanenko's 1998 urban fantasy novel, first of the Watch series, following Light Other Anton Gorodetsky of the Moscow Night Watch, who polices Dark Others under a Light-Dark truce and inspired the 2004 hit film.
Noble House (novel)
Noble House is a 1981 novel by James Clavell, the fourth volume of his Asian Saga, set in Hong Kong in 1963 and adapted as a 1988 miniseries starring Pierce Brosnan.
Noble Reincarnation
Noble Reincarnation (貴族転生) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Nazuna Miki and kyo, published by SB Creative's GA Bunko since 2019. Noah, the emperor's 13th child with uncapped levels and servant-absorbing skills, rises to become emperor; a 12-episode anime aired January to March 2026.
Nome King
Nome King, also Roquat the Red and later Ruggedo, is the underground ruler of the Nomes and the recurring main villain of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first appearing in Ozma of Oz (1907), wielding the Magic Belt, fearing eggs, and repeatedly defeated by Dorothy, Ozma, and the Water of Oblivion.
Novel sequence
A novel sequence is a series of at least three novels or novellas by one author sharing characters, settings, or continuous storylines, distinct from a single novel printed in parts.
O Tempo e o Vento
O Tempo e o Vento (Time and the Wind) is a trilogy of historical novels by Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo, published between 1949 and 1962.
Oathbringer
Oathbringer is Brandon Sanderson's 2017 epic fantasy novel, Book Three of the Stormlight Archive, following Dalinar Kholin during a new Desolation on Roshar; a #1 New York Times bestseller and Audible's most pre-ordered book.