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The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is an 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson about two Scottish brothers whose rivalry, sparked by the Jacobite rising of 1745, spans the Scottish highlands and the American wilderness.
The Master of Go
The Master of Go (Meijin, 名人) is a chronicle novel by Yasunari Kawabata based on a real 1938 retirement match of Go master Hon'inbo Shūsai.
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar
The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar (Hyakuren no Haou to Seiyaku no Valkyria) is a 24-volume Japanese light novel series by Seiichi Takayama about Yuuto ruling Bronze Age Yggdrasil, adapted into a 2018 anime.
The Master Polycarp's Dialogue with Death
The Master Polycarp's Dialogue with Death (Polish: Rozmowa mistrza Polikarpa ze Śmiercią) is an anonymous mid-15th-century Polish poem in which a learned master questions personified Death about her power.
The Matriarch
The Matriarch is a 1986 historical novel by New Zealand Māori writer Witi Ihimaera, narrated by Tamatea Mahana and winner of the 1986 Wattie Book of the Year.
The Maximus Poems
The Maximus Poems is a sequence of more than 300 linked poems by the American poet Charles Olson, centered on the speaker Maximus and Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The Maxx
The Maxx is a 35-issue Image Comics series (March 1993–February 1998) by Sam Kieth about a homeless man who believes he is a superhero in a dream world called the Outback, adapted as a 1995 MTV animated miniseries.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge is an 1886 Thomas Hardy novel about Michael Henchard, who sells his wife in a drunken act and later becomes mayor of Casterbridge.
The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner (2009) by James Dashner, also known as the Maze Runner series' first novel, is a YA dystopian sci-fi book about amnesiac teen Thomas in the Glade inside a deadly Maze run by WICKED; adapted into Wes Ball's 2014 film with Dylan O'Brien, which opened with $32.5 million.
The Maze Runner (book series)
The Maze Runner book series by James Dashner: YA dystopian novels (2009-2025) about Thomas, the Gladers, WICKED, and the Maze; trilogy, two prequels, Crank Palace novella, and Maze Cutter sequels, adapted into three films.
The Meaning of the Disaster
The Meaning of the Disaster is a 1948 Arabic book by Constantine Zurayk analyzing the Arab defeat in the 1948 Palestine war, which it named al-Nakba.
The Mehlis Report
The Mehlis Report (تقرير مهليس) is a novel by Lebanese writer Rabee Jaber set in Beirut in 2005, between Rafik Hariri's assassination and the release of the UN inquiry report.
The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln, written by Glikl bas Judah Leib between 1691 and 1719, is regarded as the first complete life story by a Jewish woman.
The Memoirs of Jan Chryzostom Pasek
The Memoirs of Jan Chryzostom Pasek (Pamiętniki) are the memoirs of Jan Chryzostom Pasek, a Polish nobleman and soldier, covering 1656 to 1688 and first printed in 1836.
The Memoirs of Tan Kah Kee
The Memoirs of Tan Kah Kee (Nanqiao Huiyilu) is the autobiography of Singapore rubber magnate Tan Kah Kee, written in hiding in Java from 1943 to 1944.
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer is Janelle Monáe's 2022 Harper Voyager debut, five Afrofuturist stories with Johnson, Lore, Ewing, Delgado, and Thomas set in the New Dawn surveillance dystopia.
The Memory of Love
The Memory of Love is a 2010 novel by Aminatta Forna set in postwar Freetown, Sierra Leone, centering a British psychologist, a traumatized surgeon, and a hospitalized historian.
The Memory Police
The Memory Police (Hisoyaka na kessho, 密やかな結晶) is Yoko Ogawa's 1994 dystopian novel, translated by Stephen Snyder in 2019, about an island where objects and memories disappear and a secret police enforces the forgetting; NBA finalist 2019.
The Men in Black (comics)
The Men in Black (comics): 1990 black-and-white Aircel Comics series by Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers about a secret agency policing the paranormal; later Malibu and Marvel property and basis of the 1997 Men in Black film.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's comedy (1596-98) of the bond of flesh between Antonio and Shylock, Portia's casket test and courtroom defense, first printed in 1600, and a lasting site of debate over antisemitism.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor is a Shakespeare comedy set in Windsor, in which Sir John Falstaff tries to seduce two married women who outwit him.
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea is a 1965 coming-of-age novel by the Australian writer Randolph Stow, set in Geraldton, Western Australia, during and after World War II.
The Message (Coates book)
The Message (2024) is Ta-Nehisi Coates's nonfiction book of three essays on Senegal, a South Carolina book-banning fight, and Israel-Palestine, written as a letter to his Howard University writing students.
The Messiah of the House of Joseph
The Messiah of the House of Joseph (Yiddish: Meshiekh ben Efrayim) is a 1924 novel by Moyshe Kulbak on the Talmudic legend of the 36 hidden just men.
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), Kafka's 1912 novella published 1915, in which salesman Gregor Samsa wakes as monstrous vermin (Ungeziefer); its German title literally means transformation, not metamorphosis.
The Meursault Investigation
The Meursault Investigation (Meursault, contre-enquête) is a 2013 novel by Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, a postcolonial response to Camus's The Stranger told through the murdered Arab's brother.
The Middle Five
The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School is a 1900 autobiographical book by Francis La Flesche about his boyhood at a Presbyterian mission school on the Omaha Reservation.
The Midnight Court
The Midnight Court (Cúirt an Mheán Oíche) is a satiric, bawdy narrative poem of 1,026 lines in Irish, composed around 1780 by the schoolmaster Brian Merriman of County Clare.
The Midnight Train
The Midnight Train is Matt Haig's 2026 novel, second in the Midnight World series and companion to The Midnight Library. Dead bookseller Wilbur Budd, 81, rides a magical train through his past with guide Agnes Bagdale, breaking its rules to reach his 1974 Venice honeymoon with Maggie.
The Mighty Avengers
The Mighty Avengers is a Marvel Comics series (2007–2010, 36 issues) begun by Brian Michael Bendis and continued by Dan Slott, featuring Iron Man's government-sanctioned post-Civil War team; Al Ewing revived the name in 2013.