Book Series Guide

Author index

Authors beginning with M

M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison

English author and literary critic known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, criticism, and memoir.

30 works3 series
M. L. Rio

M. L. Rio

M. L. Rio is an American novelist known for literary thrillers, gothic fiction, and dark-academia stories.

3 works0 series

M. L. Stedman

Australian novelist best known for The Light Between Oceans and A Far-flung Life.

2 works0 series
M. L. Wang

M. L. Wang

M. L. Wang is a Wisconsin-based author and martial artist who writes character-driven fantasy and science fiction.

8 works2 series
M. T. Anderson

M. T. Anderson

American author of novels, picture books, nonfiction, graphic novels, and short fiction for children, young adults, and adults.

28 works3 series
M.A. Carrick

M.A. Carrick

M.A. Carrick is the joint pen name of fantasy authors Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms.

5 works2 series
M.R. Carey

M.R. Carey

British novelist and comic-book writer, also known as Mike Carey and Adam Blake, whose work spans horror, fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, and graphic fiction.

114 works12 series
Mackenzi Lee

Mackenzi Lee

American author of young adult historical fiction, fantasy, romance, licensed novels, and nonfiction.

12 works2 series
Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle

American writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and children's literature, best known for A Wrinkle in Time.

63 works7 series

Madeleine Roux

American author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and romance for adults, teens, and children.

28 works4 series
Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller is an American novelist and classicist known for mythological retellings including The Song of Achilles and Circe.

5 works0 series

Maggie Nelson

American poet, essayist, memoirist, and art critic whose genre-defying books explore color, violence, family, freedom, gender, care, and artistic life.

13 works0 series
Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell

Irish-British novelist, memoirist, and children's author known for literary and historical fiction.

14 works0 series
Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater

American novelist, artist, and musician known for fantasy, speculative fiction, and historical fiction for young readers and adults.

27 works8 series
Maia Kobabe

Maia Kobabe

Nonbinary queer cartoonist and author best known for the graphic memoir Gender Queer: A Memoir.

3 works0 series
Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani education activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and author whose books focus on girls' education, displacement, and coming of age.

4 works0 series

Malcolm Cowley

American poet, literary critic, editor, memoirist, and historian of American literature (1898–1989).

20 works1 series
Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell

Canadian journalist and nonfiction author known for accessible works on psychology, sociology, social science, and human behavior.

9 works1 series

Malcolm Jones III

American comic-book artist and inker (1959–1996), best known for The Sandman and The Question.

10 works4 series

Malcolm Pasley

British Germanist and literary scholar best known for his critical editing of Franz Kafka's works.

10 works2 series

Malcolm X

American Muslim minister, human-rights activist, and influential writer and speaker on Black nationalism, Islam, Pan-Africanism, and racial justice.

8 works0 series
Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo

Malinda Lo is a New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of seven novels, including A Scatter of Light. Her work spans queer young adult fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and thrillers.

9 works2 series
Malka Older

Malka Older

Malka Older is an American science-fiction author, sociologist, and humanitarian aid worker known for politically engaged speculative fiction.

7 works2 series

Malvina G. Vogel

Malvina G. Vogel was a children's-book adapter and writer best known for accessible retellings of classic literature.

29 works1 series

Marc Thompson

Marc Thompson is an English-language haiku poet known for the chapbooks Ordinary Time and Oklahoma Heat.

2 works0 series
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

French modernist novelist, essayist, critic, and short-story writer best known for À la recherche du temps perdu.

19 works1 series

Marcie R. Rendon

Marcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation and an Anishinaabe author, poet, playwright, and community arts activist.

16 works1 series
Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher best known for Meditations.

1 works0 series
Marcus Kliewer

Marcus Kliewer

Canadian horror writer and stop-motion animator based in Vancouver.

3 works0 series
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Canadian novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, critic, memoirist, dramatist, and author of children's and graphic literature.

100 works5 series

Margaret Jull Costa

British literary translator and editor of Spanish- and Portuguese-language literature.

3 works0 series
Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

American novelist and journalist best known for Gone with the Wind.

6 works0 series

Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen is an American young adult fantasy author and illustrator based in Seattle.

7 works2 series
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix

American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, best known for the Shadow Children and The Missing series.

54 works10 series
Margaret Rogerson

Margaret Rogerson

Margaret Rogerson is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and novellas.

4 works1 series
Margaret Stohl

Margaret Stohl

Margaret Stohl is an American young adult novelist and comics writer, best known for co-authoring the Caster Chronicles and writing Marvel novels and graphic works.

28 works9 series
Margaret Weis

Margaret Weis

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for co-creating Dragonlance with Tracy Hickman.

115 works26 series
Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley

American author of fantasy, literary fiction, young adult fiction, memoir, drama, and speculative fiction.

13 works2 series

Maria Semple

American novelist and former television writer known for comic, satirical literary fiction.

4 works0 series

Maria V. Snyder

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Study, Glass, Soulfinders, Healer, Insider, Sentinels of the Galaxy, and Archives of the Invisible Sword series.

32 works9 series
Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enriquez

Argentine novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and essayist known for literary horror, dark fiction, and nonfiction about cemeteries, literature, music, and cultural figures.

17 works0 series
Mariana Zapata

Mariana Zapata

American contemporary romance author known for slow-burn romantic novels.

14 works0 series
Marie Benedict

Marie Benedict

Marie Benedict is an American historical fiction author and lawyer who writes about overlooked women in history.

15 works2 series
Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan is the pen name of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author and former anthropologist and folklorist.

51 works11 series

Marie Kondo

Japanese tidying consultant, bestselling author, founder of KonMari Media, and host of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.

11 works1 series
Marie Lu

Marie Lu

Chinese-American author of young adult and adult speculative fiction, including Legend, The Young Elites, Warcross, Skyhunter, and Stars & Smoke.

24 works9 series
Marie Rutkoski

Marie Rutkoski

American author of children's, young adult, fantasy, thriller, and literary fiction.

13 works3 series
Marieke Nijkamp

Marieke Nijkamp

Dutch nonbinary author of young adult and middle-grade novels, graphic novels, comics, and anthologies.

18 works2 series

Mariko Tamaki

Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist known for queer coming-of-age fiction, graphic novels, essays, and superhero comics.

50 works6 series
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist known for literary fiction and theological nonfiction.

13 works1 series
Marina Dyachenko

Marina Dyachenko

Ukrainian-American fantasy and speculative-fiction author, formerly an actress, who wrote extensively in collaboration with her husband, Sergey Dyachenko.

53 works5 series
Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo

American novelist and screenwriter best known for The Godfather and his fiction about crime, family, power, and immigrant life.

13 works1 series
Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian-Spanish novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, and political writer (1936–2025), awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

70 works1 series
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

American author of fantasy, science fiction, science fantasy, and historical fantasy, best known for the Darkover novels and The Mists of Avalon.

93 works9 series
Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl

American novelist known for intricate, genre-blending mysteries and psychological thrillers.

4 works0 series
Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer is an American bestselling author of young adult, middle-grade, fantasy, science-fiction, romance, graphic, and nonfiction works.

27 works7 series

Marjan Kamali

Iranian-American novelist known for emotionally rich historical and contemporary fiction centered on Iranian life, friendship, family, migration, and love.

3 works0 series
Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi

Iranian-born French graphic novelist, memoirist, children's-book author, filmmaker, and visual artist best known for Persepolis.

11 works1 series
Marjorie M. Liu

Marjorie M. Liu

American novelist and comic-book writer known for paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and award-winning graphic novels.

51 works14 series

Mark Buckingham

British comic-book artist and writer known for Fables, Miracleman, The Sandman, Hellblazer, and Dead Boy Detectives.

3 works2 series

Mark Deakins

Author of independently published Christian biblical-study books, also credited as Mark Allen Deakins.

9 works2 series
Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher

British cultural critic, theorist, writer, and lecturer known for his analyses of capitalism, popular culture, depression, hauntology, and lost futures.

5 works0 series
Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon is an English writer and artist known for novels, children's fiction, poetry, short stories, plays, and memoir.

34 works2 series

Mark Harman

Irish-American literary translator and Kafka scholar known for award-winning translations from German.

6 works0 series
Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky

American journalist and author of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and children's books, known for richly researched histories of food, commodities, places, and culture.

39 works0 series
Mark Lawrence

Mark Lawrence

American-British novelist known for grimdark fantasy and science fiction, including The Broken Empire, The Red Queen's War, Book of the Ancestor, and The Library Trilogy.

41 works8 series
Mark Manson

Mark Manson

American self-help author and blogger known for candid writing on personal development, relationships, values, and meaning.

6 works0 series

Mark Millar

Scottish comic-book writer known for creator-owned and mainstream superhero graphic works.

93 works55 series

Mark Musa

American Italianist, translator, literary scholar, and Indiana University professor best known for influential English translations of Dante and other Italian classics.

16 works1 series

Mark Olshaker

American novelist, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and nonfiction author known for thriller fiction, criminal-justice books, and public-health writing.

20 works3 series
Mark Oshiro

Mark Oshiro

Award-winning author of young adult and middle-grade fiction.

9 works1 series

Mark T. Sullivan

American author of mystery, thriller, suspense, and historical fiction novels.

23 works3 series
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American humorist, novelist, travel writer, essayist, lecturer, and social satirist.

62 works1 series

Mark Waid

American comic-book writer known for influential superhero comics including Kingdom Come, The Flash, Superman: Birthright, Daredevil, Captain America, and Batman/Superman: World's Finest.

121 works22 series
Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski

American novelist known for experimental, typographically innovative fiction including House of Leaves and The Familiar.

11 works2 series
Marko Kloos

Marko Kloos

German-born author of military science fiction, best known for the Frontlines series.

22 works4 series
Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak

Australian author of six novels and the memoir Three Wild Dogs (and the truth).

7 works1 series
Marlon James

Marlon James

Jamaican-born novelist known for historically grounded, formally ambitious fiction spanning Jamaica, the Caribbean, and an expansive African-inspired fantasy world.

6 works1 series

Marshall B. Rosenberg

American psychologist, mediator, author, and founder of Nonviolent Communication.

16 works1 series

Marta Barone

Italian writer, translator, and editorial consultant known for children's literature, literary fiction, memoir, and literary nonfiction.

5 works0 series
Martha Wells

Martha Wells

Martha Wells is an American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for The Murderbot Diaries and The Books of the Raksura.

46 works7 series
Martin Amis

Martin Amis

English novelist, essayist, literary critic, memoirist, and journalist known for satirical, formally inventive fiction and incisive cultural criticism.

26 works1 series
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

American writer best known for recreational mathematics, puzzles, popular science, magic, scientific skepticism, literary annotation, and fiction.

95 works2 series

Martin Hammond

English classical scholar, translator, and former school headmaster known for prose translations of Greek and Roman classics.

8 works0 series

Martin J. Sherwin

American historian of nuclear weapons, atomic diplomacy, and Cold War history; co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus.

3 works1 series
Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer

American writer, editor, librarian, and bookseller best known for her posthumously published historical novel co-authored with Annie Barrows.

1 works0 series

Mary Beard

British classicist, historian, and author specializing in ancient Rome, classical archaeology, and the reception of the classical world.

21 works1 series
Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell

American novelist with a Ph.D. in biological anthropology, known for science fiction and meticulously researched historical fiction.

7 works1 series
Mary E. Pearson

Mary E. Pearson

Mary E. Pearson is an American bestselling author of young adult fantasy, science fiction, contemporary fiction, children's books, and adult fantasy.

21 works4 series

Mary GrandPré

Mary GrandPré is an American children's-book author and illustrator best known for the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter novels.

2 works0 series
Mary H. K. Choi

Mary H. K. Choi

Mary H. K. Choi is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and comic-book writer.

7 works0 series
Mary Kubica

Mary Kubica

Mary Kubica is an American bestselling author of psychological and domestic thrillers.

10 works0 series
Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

American poet and essayist (1935–2019) known for lyric poetry rooted in the natural world.

34 works1 series
Mary Roach

Mary Roach

American popular-science writer and humorist known for witty, research-driven nonfiction about the human body, science, death, space, sex, war, and nature.

10 works0 series
Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is an American science-fiction and fantasy author, puppeteer, voice actor, and former SFWA president.

19 works2 series
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

English novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, travel writer, biographer, and editor, best known for Frankenstein.

18 works1 series

Mason Deaver

Bestselling and award-winning author of young adult and adult romance novels.

7 works1 series
Matt Dinniman

Matt Dinniman

American writer, artist, and musician best known for science-fantasy LitRPG.

18 works4 series

Matt Fraction

American comic-book writer known for creator-owned and superhero graphic works including Casanova, Sex Criminals, Hawkeye, The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.

74 works24 series
Matt Haig

Matt Haig

English novelist, journalist, and nonfiction writer known for speculative fiction, children's literature, memoir, and books about mental health.

29 works5 series

Matt Ridley

British science writer, journalist, and businessman known for books on evolution, genetics, human nature, innovation, economics, and environmental issues.

16 works0 series

Matt Ruff

American novelist known for genre-spanning fiction combining fantasy, science fiction, thriller, horror, alternate history, and dark humor.

8 works1 series
Matt Wagner

Matt Wagner

American comics writer and artist best known for creating Mage and Grendel.

37 works8 series

Matt Wilson

American humor writer, comics writer, and editor known for parody nonfiction and creator-owned graphic works.

6 works3 series
Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond

American sociologist, author, and Princeton University professor known for ethnographic and policy research on poverty, housing insecurity, eviction, race, and urban inequality.

5 works0 series

Matthew McConaughey

American actor and author known for memoir, inspirational nonfiction, children's picture books, and poetry.

3 works0 series
Matthew Quick

Matthew Quick

American novelist and memoirist known for emotionally driven adult and young-adult fiction.

10 works0 series

Matthew Sweet

English journalist, broadcaster, cultural historian, novelist, and audio-drama writer.

17 works5 series

Matthew Walker

British neuroscientist, sleep researcher, professor, and author known for the popular-science book Why We Sleep.

1 works0 series
Matthew Woodring Stover

Matthew Woodring Stover

American fantasy and science-fiction novelist known for The Acts of Caine, Barra the Pict, and Star Wars novels.

13 works6 series
Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is an American author best known for young adult mystery, contemporary, fantasy, and romance fiction.

35 works9 series

Maurice Broaddus

Maurice Broaddus is an Indianapolis-based author, editor, librarian, educator, and community organizer whose fiction spans science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult literature.

19 works2 series

Maurice Hindle

English writer, literary scholar, and editor known for work on Romantic literature, Gothic fiction, Shakespeare, and film adaptation.

9 works2 series
Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak

American author and illustrator best known for psychologically rich, darkly playful picture books.

21 works1 series
Max Barry

Max Barry

Australian novelist known for satirical, speculative, and science-fiction novels about corporations, technology, language, and power.

8 works0 series
Max Brooks

Max Brooks

Max Brooks is an American author, screenwriter, and actor known for satirical fiction and nonfiction about disaster, warfare, survival, and social resilience.

17 works3 series
Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone

Max Gladstone is an award-winning American speculative-fiction author known for the Craft Sequence, Empress of Forever, and This Is How You Lose the Time War, co-written with Amal El-Mohtar.

15 works4 series

Max Hayward

British scholar, critic, editor, and translator of Russian literature.

7 works0 series

Max Porter

English writer and former bookseller and editor known for formally experimental fiction blending prose, poetry, and visual approaches.

9 works0 series

Max Tegmark

Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist, machine-learning researcher, and author known for popular-science writing on cosmology, mathematical reality, artificial intelligence, and the future of life.

2 works0 series
Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

American poet, memoirist, essayist, playwright, children's author, and civil rights activist.

41 works2 series
Meagan Spooner

Meagan Spooner

Meagan Spooner is an American young adult author known for science fiction, fantasy, and romantic adventure novels, including the Skylark trilogy and collaborations with Amie Kaufman.

15 works5 series
Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot

American novelist writing middle-grade, young adult, and adult fiction, best known for The Princess Diaries and The Mediator.

92 works18 series
Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer

Meg Shaffer is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels.

3 works0 series

Meg Wolitzer

American novelist and author of books for adults and younger readers.

23 works1 series

Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott is an Edgar Award-winning American novelist and nonfiction writer known for noir, crime fiction, and psychologically intense stories about women, ambition, desire, and power.

15 works0 series
Megan Bannen

Megan Bannen

USA Today bestselling author of award-winning speculative fiction, including fantasy romance and young adult fantasy.

6 works1 series
Megan E. O'Keefe

Megan E. O'Keefe

Megan E. O'Keefe is a US author of science fiction and fantasy, including space opera and steampunk fiction.

12 works3 series
Megan Goldin

Megan Goldin

Australian author of psychological crime and thriller novels.

5 works1 series

Megan Miranda

Megan Miranda is a New York Times bestselling author of psychological suspense and mystery novels for adults and young adults.

17 works1 series
Megan Whalen Turner

Megan Whalen Turner

American author of fantasy novels and short fiction for children and young adults, best known for The Queen's Thief series.

8 works1 series
Meghan Quinn

Meghan Quinn

American bestselling author of romantic comedy and contemporary romance.

86 works23 series
Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins is an American author, speaker, podcast host, and personal-development educator known for practical tools for behavior change, confidence, motivation, and habit formation.

6 works0 series
Melissa Albert

Melissa Albert

American author of young adult and adult fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction.

6 works1 series
Melissa Bashardoust

Melissa Bashardoust

Melissa Bashardoust is a young adult fantasy author known for feminist fairy-tale retellings.

2 works0 series

Melissa Broder

American novelist, poet, and essayist known for surreal, darkly comic writing about desire, anxiety, embodiment, faith, and contemporary life.

9 works0 series
Melissa de la Cruz

Melissa de la Cruz

Filipina-American bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults.

96 works21 series
Melissa Marr

Melissa Marr

Melissa Marr is an American author of fantasy, romance, young-adult, adult, and children's fiction, best known for the Wicked Lovely series.

45 works11 series
Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes Lackey

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Valdemar novels, Elemental Masters, and numerous co-authored fantasy series.

189 works33 series
Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake

British biologist, mycologist, and writer known for his work on fungi, mycorrhizal networks, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science.

1 works0 series

Mervyn Peake

English writer, poet, artist, and illustrator best known for the Gormenghast novels.

28 works1 series
Meryl Wilsner

Meryl Wilsner

Meryl Wilsner is a bestselling author of contemporary romances featuring queer folks who love women.

4 works0 series

Mhairi McFarlane

Scottish novelist known for romantic comedy and contemporary fiction.

12 works2 series

Mia Sheridan

Mia Sheridan is a bestselling American author of emotionally driven contemporary romance and romantic suspense.

30 works5 series

Micaiah Johnson

Micaiah Johnson is an American author and scholar who writes science fiction, speculative fiction, and horror.

3 works1 series
Michael A. Singer

Michael A. Singer

American spiritual teacher, author, meditation-center founder, and entrepreneur known for nonfiction on consciousness, meditation, surrender, and inner freedom.

7 works0 series
Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and comics creator.

19 works2 series
Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

American crime novelist and former crime reporter best known for the Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, Renée Ballard, Jack McEvoy, and Catalina series.

48 works5 series
Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, physician, and nonfiction author known for scientifically grounded thrillers.

35 works1 series

Michael Crouch

Australian writer, memoirist, novelist, and biographer (1935–2013).

4 works0 series
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and screenwriter best known for The Hours.

11 works0 series

Michael Dante DiMartino

American author, animation director, writer, and co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.

10 works4 series
Michael Ende

Michael Ende

German author best known for imaginative children's and fantasy literature, including Jim Knopf, Momo, and Die unendliche Geschichte.

42 works1 series

Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson is an American scholar, author, ordained Baptist minister, and public intellectual whose work examines race, religion, politics, popular culture, and African American life.

26 works1 series

Michael Finkel

American journalist and nonfiction author known for narrative works about crime, isolation, adventure, and unusual lives.

4 works0 series
Michael Grant

Michael Grant

American author Michael Grant, pseudonym of Michael Reynolds, known for young adult science fiction, dystopian, fantasy, horror, historical, and thriller fiction.

29 works9 series

Michael Henry Heim

American literary translator and Slavic scholar known for influential translations from Central and Eastern European languages.

4 works1 series

Michael Hofmann

German-born British poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator, born in 1957.

12 works0 series

Michael Hulse

English poet, translator, critic, and interviewer, born in 1955.

10 works0 series
Michael J. Sullivan

Michael J. Sullivan

American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Riyria novels.

25 works4 series

Michael Kandel

American science-fiction author, translator, and editor known for four satirical novels and acclaimed translations of Polish literature.

4 works0 series
Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is an American nonfiction writer and journalist known for narrative books about finance, business, sports, technology, politics, and public institutions.

20 works0 series
Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell

American novelist and screenwriter best known for Southern Gothic horror, the Blackwater serial novel, and the screenplay for Beetlejuice.

39 works5 series
Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

English novelist, short-story writer, editor, critic, and musician known for science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, and the New Wave movement.

126 works21 series

Michael Nicholson

English journalist, television correspondent, war reporter, novelist, and memoirist (1937–2016).

9 works0 series

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, novelist, filmmaker, and editor known for formally inventive writing about memory, displacement, war, and identity.

22 works0 series

Michael Page

Michael Fitzgerald Page was a British-born Australian writer, editor, and former merchant sailor known for nautical fiction, Australian history, biographies, and illustrated fantasy reference books.

28 works0 series
Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan

American author, journalist, and professor known for nonfiction about food, agriculture, plants, psychedelics, and consciousness.

11 works0 series
Michael Scott

Michael Scott

Irish author of fantasy, science fiction, horror, folklore, romance, and nonfiction, also writing romance as Anna Dillon and some young-adult fiction as Mike Scott.

77 works7 series

Michael Sheen

Welsh actor, activist, and co-author of children’s picture books.

1 works0 series
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for award-winning novels, short fiction, collections, criticism, and literary biography.

60 works3 series

Michael Tanner

British philosopher, Cambridge fellow, and opera critic known for studies of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Wagner.

5 works3 series

Michael W. Kramer

American communication scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Oklahoma, known for work on organizational communication, uncertainty management, organizational socialization, and volunteering.

7 works0 series

Michael Zulli

American comics artist, writer, and wildlife illustrator known for The Puma Blues, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Soul's Winter, The Sandman, and The Fracture of the Universal Boy.

4 works2 series

Michel Faber

Dutch-born Australian-raised Scottish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist.

12 works2 series
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

French philosopher and historian of ideas whose works analyzed knowledge, power, institutions, subjectivity, and sexuality.

36 works2 series
Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq

French novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, and filmmaker known for bleak, satirical examinations of contemporary Western society.

21 works0 series
Michelle Alexander

Michelle Alexander

American civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, and author of The New Jim Crow.

1 works0 series

Michelle McNamara

American true-crime writer and founder of True Crime Diary, best known for her posthumously published investigation of the Golden State Killer.

1 works0 series
Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama

American author, lawyer, and former First Lady of the United States.

4 works0 series
Michelle Paver

Michelle Paver

British author of historical fiction, children's historical fantasy, and supernatural novels.

23 works3 series
Michelle Zauner

Michelle Zauner

American musician and author best known for the memoir Crying in H Mart.

1 works0 series

Michiko Aoyama

Japanese novelist known for warm, interconnected contemporary fiction and short-story collections.

16 works1 series
Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku

Japanese-American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science author known for his work on string field theory and books explaining physics, cosmology, and future technology.

16 works0 series
Mick Herron

Mick Herron

British crime and espionage novelist best known for the Slough House series.

25 works2 series
Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami

Japanese novelist, poet, essayist, and memoirist born in Osaka in 1976.

26 works2 series

Miguel Ruiz

Mexican spiritual teacher and bestselling author of practical books on Toltec wisdom, personal freedom, love, and awareness.

12 works2 series
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Hungarian-American psychologist and co-founder of positive psychology, best known for developing the concept of flow.

20 works0 series

Mike Allred

American comics writer and artist best known for creating Madman and co-creating The Atomics and X-Ray Robot.

14 works9 series
Mike Carey

Mike Carey

British writer of novels, graphic works, comics, short fiction, and screenplays, also published as M. R. Carey and Adam Blake.

59 works17 series
Mike Chen

Mike Chen

Mike Chen is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and young adult fiction, as well as a writer of licensed franchise novels and comics.

11 works2 series

Mike Dringenberg

American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work on The Sandman.

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Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola

American comic-book writer and artist best known as the creator of Hellboy and its connected supernatural universe.

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, playwright, physician, and satirist.

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Mikki Kendall

American writer, cultural critic, speaker, and editor known for nonfiction on feminism, race, culture, and social justice, as well as graphic works and speculative-fiction publishing.

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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

Czech-born French novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist known for philosophically intricate fiction about memory, identity, desire, history, and exile.

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Miles Cameron

Miles Cameron

Miles Cameron is the fantasy-fiction pen name of Canadian novelist Christian Cameron, a military veteran and medieval-history graduate.

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Millôr Fernandes

Brazilian writer, humorist, journalist, cartoonist, poet, playwright, translator, and visual artist known for satirical prose, aphorisms, fables, poetry, theater, and political humor.

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Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee is a Korean American novelist whose fiction explores family, migration, identity, class, and the Korean diaspora.

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Mindy Kaling

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American comedian, writer, actress, producer, and playwright.

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Mindy McGinnis

Edgar Award-winning American novelist from Ohio who writes across young adult and adult genres.

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Mira Grant

Mira Grant

Mira Grant is the pseudonym of American author Seanan McGuire, used primarily for science fiction, horror, and apocalyptic fiction.

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Miranda July

Miranda July

Miranda July is an American writer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist known for literary fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, performance, and artist's books.

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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews

Canadian novelist and memoirist known for darkly comic, compassionate writing about family, religion, mental illness, and survival.

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Mirjam Pressler

German author and translator best known for novels about difficult childhoods, Jewish life, memory, and the Holocaust.

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Mitch Albom

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Chinese danmei and xianxia novelist known for three completed web novels.

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Mohsin Hamid

Pakistani-British novelist and essayist known for literary fiction addressing migration, identity, globalization, and political change.

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Mona Awad

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Canadian novelist known for darkly comic, surreal fiction about women, identity, beauty, pain, friendship, and artistic creation.

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Monika Kim

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Monika Kim is a second-generation Korean American horror novelist living in Los Angeles. Her debut novel, The Eyes Are the Best Part, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.

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Morgan Housel is a bestselling nonfiction author and partner at The Collaborative Fund, known for writing about money, investing, behavior, and decision-making.

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Morgan Talty is a Penobscot writer and author of literary fiction and short stories.

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Mortimer J. Adler

American philosopher, educator, author, and advocate of liberal education and the Great Books tradition.

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