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Mona Vanderwaal
Mona Vanderwaal is a fictional character from Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars books and TV series, played by Janel Parrish; the original "A" stalker in both versions, she dies in the books but survives on television, later returning in The Perfectionists.
Monachomachia
Monachomachia, or the War of the Monks, is a mock-heroic poem by Ignacy Krasicki satirizing a war between Dominicans and Carmelites, published anonymously in 1778.
Monarquía indiana
Monarquía indiana is a three-volume 1615 history of the native peoples and conquest of New Spain by the Franciscan friar Juan de Torquemada, a foundational source on early Mexico.
Mondnacht
Mondnacht ("Moonlit Night") is a three-stanza poem by the German Romantic writer Joseph von Eichendorff, first printed in 1837 and famous through Robert Schumann's 1840 song setting.
Money for Maria
Money for Maria (Деньги для Марии) is a 1967 novella by the Russian writer Valentin Rasputin, his first major work, about a village shopkeeper who faces prison over a shortfall.
Money to Burn
Money to Burn (Plata quemada) is a 1997 novel by Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia that reconstructs a real 1965 bank robbery, won the Premio Planeta, and was filmed in 2000.
Moneyball
Moneyball: Michael Lewis's 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and its 2011 film, on how Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics used sabermetrics and market inefficiencies to compete on a low payroll.
Mongolian epic
A Mongolian epic, known in Mongolian as tuuli (тууль), is an orally composed heroic narrative poem, the central genre of Mongolian literature, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Monkey Beach
Monkey Beach is a 2000 debut novel by Eden Robinson, a Haisla and Heiltsuk Canadian author. It follows Lisamarie Hill as she searches for her lost brother in Kitamaat.
Monnè, Outrages and Challenges
Monnè, Outrages and Challenges (Monnè, outrages et défis) is a 1990 French-language novel by the Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma, recounting colonization through the fictional Malinké kingdom of Soba.
Mono (manga)
Mono is a Japanese four-panel slice-of-life manga by Afro (creator of Laid-Back Camp), serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat about the Cinephoto Club girls in Kofu, Yamanashi; five volumes, a Yen Press English release, and an April 2025 TV anime by Soigne; on hiatus since July 2026.
Monogatari (series)
Monogatari series (〈物語〉シリーズ), NISIOISIN's Japanese light novel series with VOFAN illustrations published by Kodansha BOX, following Koyomi Araragi and apparitions; adapted by SHAFT under Akiyuki Shinbo from Bakemonogatari (2009) onward.
Monograph
Monograph: a book-length, single-authored scholarly work presenting one sustained original argument, typically 70,000-110,000 words, published by a university press after external peer review; central to humanities and social science careers and increasingly published open access.
Monster (Myers novel)
Monster (1999) is Walter Dean Myers's young adult novel about Steve Harmon, a 16-year-old on trial for felony murder, told as a screenplay and journal; first Printz Award winner, NBA finalist, adapted to film.
Monster Girl Doctor
Monster Girl Doctor, known in Japan as Monster Musume no Oisha-san, is a light novel series by Yoshino Origuchi about a human physician treating monster girls.
Monsters (manga)
Monsters (MONSTERS) is Eiichiro Oda's 1994 one-shot manga about the samurai Ryuma, collected in WANTED! and adapted in 2024 as the anime Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation.
Monsters We Make
Monsters We Make, also Monsters We Make (CoryxKenshin manga), is a horror sci-fi manga series by YouTuber CoryxKenshin, Corey Mikell, and artist Andrew Gong about Jabari Booker fighting Leakers at New Edyn Academy, distinct from novels by Kali White and Rachel Corbett.
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Montage of a Dream Deferred is a 1951 book-length poem sequence by Langston Hughes portraying life in Harlem, centered on the deferred dreams of African Americans.
Moomins
Moomins (mumintroll, muumi): white roundish trolls of Moominvalley created by Swedish-speaking Finnish author Tove Jansson, first published 1945; nine novels, comic strip, 30 million books sold, Moomin Characters Oy brand, parks in Finland and Japan.
Moon of Mtatsminda
Moon of Mtatsminda (Georgian: Mtatsmindis Mtvare) is a 1915 poem by the Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze about Mtatsminda, the mountain overlooking Tbilisi, which he called his programmatic poem and a key to his work.
Moon over Samarqand
Moon over Samarqand (Arabic: قمر على سمرقند) is a 2004 novel by the Egyptian writer Mohamed Mansi Qandil about a young Egyptian doctor who travels to Samarkand in search of a secret tied to his father.
Moonfleet (novel)
Moonfleet is an 1898 adventure novel by John Meade Falkner, also called J. Meade Falkner, set in 1757 Dorset, where orphan John Trenchard joins smugglers and hunts Blackbeard Mohune's diamond; adapted by Fritz Lang in 1955 and for television.
Moonlight over the Lotus Pond
Moonlight over the Lotus Pond (荷塘月色) is a 1927 lyric essay by Zhu Ziqing, written at Tsinghua Garden in Beijing and regarded as a classic of modern Chinese prose.
Moonlit Night
Moonlit Night is a 756 poem by the Tang poet Du Fu, written in occupied Chang'an and imagining his wife in Fuzhou gazing at the same moon.
Moonraker (novel)
Moonraker is Ian Fleming's third James Bond novel (1955, Jonathan Cape), set in London and Kent, in which Bond investigates Sir Hugo Drax's plot to fire a nuclear warhead at London; US title Too Hot to Handle; the 1979 film shares only the title.
Mor ho!
Mor ho! is an 1864 heroic epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Samo Chalupka, depicting Slavs who fight a Roman emperor to the death rather than submit.
Mor Jibon Xuworon
Mor Jibon Xuworon (মোৰ জীৱন সোঁৱৰণ) is the memoir of Assamese writer Lakshminath Bezbaroa, first published in 1944 and regarded as the first autobiography published in Assamese.
Moralia
The Moralia (Ethika) is the collective title for the non-biographical works of Plutarch of Chaeronea, a miscellaneous body of essays, dialogues, and treatises on ethics, education, religion, and natural philosophy.
Morangos Mofados
Morangos Mofados is a 1982 short-story collection by Brazilian writer Caio Fernando Abreu, his most celebrated book, containing 18 stories of loneliness, forbidden love, and lost ideals under Brazil's military dictatorship.
Mordor
Mordor, the Black Land, is the volcanic realm of Sauron in southeastern Middle-earth, chosen in the Second Age for its defenses and for Mount Doom, where the One Ring was forged and destroyed.