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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, 1931-2012.
- 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 1925-2013.
- Human Sexual Response.
Recommended by:
LAT
- Matthiessen, Peter,
American, 1927-2014.
- 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, 1917-2016.
- 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, 1919-2004.
- 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, 1927-2019.
- 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, 1923-2010.
- 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
- Mo Yan, Chinese, 1955- . Nobel Laureate
- 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
- Modiano, Patrick, French, 1945- . Nobel Laureate
- 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, 1929-2016.
- 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, 1931-2019.
Nobel Laureate
- Morse, Edward S.,
American, 1838-1925.
- Moses de Leon,
See Zohar
- Moss, Howard,
American, 1922-1987.
- 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, 1930-2013.
- 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
- Müller, Herta,
German, 1953- .
Nobel Laureate
- Mumford, Lewis,
American, 1895-1990.
- Munro, Alice,
Canadian, 1931- .
Nobel Laureate
- 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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