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Matter of France
The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is the body of medieval legend centered on Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers defending Christianity from the Saracens.
Matter of Rome
The Matter of Rome is one of three medieval romance cycles named by Jean Bodel, covering classical legends of Alexander the Great and the Trojan War.
Maurice (novel)
Maurice, E. M. Forster's 1913–14 homosexual love story between Maurice Hall, Clive Durham, and Alec Scudder, published posthumously in 1971 and adapted in the 1987 Merchant Ivory film.
Maus
Maus, Art Spiegelman's two-volume Holocaust graphic novel (1986, 1991) depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, won a 1992 Pulitzer Special Citation and was banned by a Tennessee school board in 2022.
Mausoleum: Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts
Mausoleum: Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts (Mausoleum: Thirty-Seven Ballads from the History of Progress) is a 1975 book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger portraying inventors, revolutionaries, and scientists in verse.
Max and Moritz
Max and Moritz (Max und Moritz), Wilhelm Busch's 1865 verse picture story of two prankish brothers punished in a mill; forerunner of the comic strip, model for The Katzenjammer Kids, translated into 281 languages by 1997.
Max Havelaar
Max Havelaar is an 1860 satirical novel by Multatuli, pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker, exposing the exploitation of Javanese peasants under Dutch colonial rule.
Maxims
Maxims, the Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales of François de La Rochefoucauld, is a collection of short reflections on self-love and vanity, first published in 1665 and revised until 1678.
Maximum Carnage
Maximum Carnage is Marvel's 1993 fourteen-part Spider-Man crossover, spread across five titles from Spider-Man Unlimited #1 to #2, pitting Carnage, Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin, and Carrion against Spider-Man, Venom, and allied heroes; it inspired the 1994 Acclaim beat-'em-up.
Maximum Ride
Maximum Ride is James Patterson's young adult science fiction series (2005-2015, nine novels) about the Flock, six children engineered as 98% human and 2% avian, led by fourteen-year-old Max, escaping the School and hunted by wolf-human Erasers; adapted as manga, a 2016 film, and Hawk sequels.
May Day Eve
May Day Eve is Nick Joaquin's 1947 short story (Philippine Free Press) about Agueda and Don Badoy Montiya, whose May Day mirror divination ritual in 1847 Spanish Manila foretells a disillusioned marriage; a canonical work of Philippine literature in English.
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.
May We Feed the King
May We Feed the King is Rebecca Perry's 2026 debut novel: an unnamed curator reconstructs an anonymous reluctant medieval king. Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize winner; published by Granta and Transit Books.
Maya Kanan
Maya Kanan (মায়াকানন, "the enchanted forest") is the title of several Bengali works: Michael Madhusudan Dutt's unfinished five-act mythological play, written in 1873, and Hemendra Kumar Roy's juvenile adventure novels.
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.
Mayombe
Mayombe is a 1980 novel by Angolan writer Pepetela that depicts MPLA guerrillas fighting the Portuguese colonial army in the Mayombe forest of Cabinda during Angola's war of independence.
Mayse-bukh
Mayse-bukh, or "Book of Stories" (מעשה־בוך), is a collection of 257 Old Yiddish tales first printed in Basel in 1602, drawing on talmudic and midrashic stories.
Mayura Sandesham
Mayura Sandesham (മയൂരസന്ദേശം), also spelled Mayoorasandesham, is a Malayalam messenger poem by Kerala Varma, who sends a peacock from Haripad with his message of love and separation to his wife in Thiruvananthapuram.
Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil
Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil ("On the Banks of the Mayyazhi River") is a 1974 Malayalam novel by M. Mukundan about the freedom struggle of Mayyazhi (Mahe), a French-ruled enclave on the Kerala coast.
Mazamin
Mazamin (مضامین) is the Urdu term for essays or collected essays, essay writing being a foundational branch of Urdu literature; it also names essay collections like Mazamin-e-Aabid.
Mazmoon
Mazmoon (مضمون) is the Urdu term for the essay, a non-fiction prose genre equivalent to the English essay, begun in 1845 with Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as its founder.
MCMXIV
"MCMXIV" is a poem by Philip Larkin, published in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings, looking back on England just before the First World War began.
McOndo
McOndo is a 1996 anthology of short stories edited by Chilean writers Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, announcing a break with magical realism in favor of urban, globalized Latin American fiction.
McTeague
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is an 1899 novel by Frank Norris, a central work of American literary naturalism about a San Francisco dentist's descent into greed.
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.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day is David Sedaris's 2000 Little, Brown essay collection, split between his North Carolina childhood and New York years and his move to Paris to learn French; it won the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Mean Spirit
Mean Spirit is a 1990 historical novel by Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan, her first, fictionalizing the murders of oil-wealthy Osage people in Oklahoma in the early 1920s.
Mean Time
Mean Time is a 1993 poetry collection, Duffy's fourth, by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy. It won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize.
Measuring the World
Measuring the World (Die Vermessung der Welt) is a 2005 satirical novel by Daniel Kehlmann reimagining the lives of Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, translated into more than 40 languages.
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a fragmentary didactic elegy by the Roman poet Ovid that gives five recipes for facial treatments, the first Latin text transmitting dermatological recipes.