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Marcus Emerson writes for readers in grades 3 to 5. Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja is his longest sequence, joined by Ben Braver, Recess Warriors, Secret Agent 6th Grader, Kid YouTuber, Adventure Club and Dodge Ball Wars. 106 catalogued books run from Adventure Club #1 (2012) to Short Cuts: Arcade Gamer (2026). Middle school students, ninjas, diaries and talent shows are the recurring subjects, and the median book runs 136 pages.

Marcus Kliewer is a Canadian horror writer with two books to his name: We Used to Live Here (2024) and The Caretaker (2026). The debut took the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in 2026, and horror, thriller, mystery and the paranormal are the catalogued subjects. Kliewer comes from Kelowna, British Columbia, moved to Vancouver after high school, and worked in film as crew and as a stop-motion animator, editing Amanda Strong's 2018 short Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) and directing the 2020 animated short lot.

Marcus Richardson writes post-apocalyptic and survival fiction. The Solar Storm sequence runs across two seasons, with the Elixr Plague, Future History of America, Shadow Wars and Storm Stories series beside it. The catalogue holds 37 books from Alea Jacta Est (2013) to Resurgent (2021), published at an average gap of 0.2 years, and nothing new has appeared since 2021.

Marcus Sakey

14 books• 3 series

Marcus Sakey is an American author and the host of the Travel Channel show Hidden City. 14 catalogued books run from The Blade Itself (2007) to Afterlife (2017). The Brilliance Saga is the one series; the rest are standalone novels and short fiction, among them Good People (2008), The Amateurs (2009) and The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (2011). Criminals, ex-convicts, kidnapping and a dystopian strand fill the subjects, and the catalogue is likely complete.

Cooking runs through the nine books catalogued under Marcus Samuelsson, published between 2003 and 2020. Aquavit (2003) opens the run and The Rise (2020) closes it, with The Soul of a New Cuisine (2006), New American Table (2009), Yes, Chef (2012), Marcus Off Duty (2014), Make It Messy (2015), The Red Rooster Cookbook (2016) and Our Harlem (2019) in between. Catalogue subjects record American and Scandinavian cooking, African American cooks, biography, the Aquavit restaurant and New York restaurants.

MarcyKate Connolly writes children's fantasy, including the Shadow Weaver, Hollow Dolls and Twin Daggers series. Subjects across the 11 catalogued books include magic, witches, wizards, dragons, monsters, fairy tales and women heroes. The run starts with Monstrous (2015) and Ravenous (2016), and The Thirteenth Circle (2024) is the newest title. Median length is 310 pages.

Claudia Valentine, a woman private investigator in Australia, is the series character in Marele Day's crime fiction. Day was born on 4 May 1947 and is Australian. The first Claudia Valentine novel earned Day a Shamus Award, and the 1996 guide How to Write Crime won a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction. The catalogue lists 13 books from Shirley's Song (1984) to Reckless (2023), including The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (1988) and Lambs of God (1998).

Maren Moore has 24 books catalogued from Jingle Wars (2020) to The Casanova Complex (2026). The Moore series are Totally Pucked, Hellcats Hockey, Orleans University, Strawberry Hollow, Hollyridge and Mistletoe Falls. Change on the Fly, Sincerely, The Puck Bunny and The Mistletoe Bet date from 2021, and The Ex Equation and The Final Score from 2022.

Maren Stoffels has 7 catalogued books, published from 2020 to 2026. Escape Room and Fright Night came out in 2020, Room Service in 2021, Stranger Danger in 2023, No Escape in 2024 and Deep Water in 2025, and Mystery Guest (2026) is the newest. Children's fiction is the listed subject.

Margaret Atwood

89 books• 8 series

Margaret Atwood, born November 18, 1939, is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor. The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel from 1985, is the best-known Atwood work. Atwood's output includes 18 poetry books, 18 novels, 11 non-fiction books, nine short fiction collections, eight children's books and two graphic novels. The catalogue opens with The Circle Game (1964) and runs to Book of Lives (2025), with The Edible Woman (1969) and Surfacing (1972) along the way. Series include MaddAddam, Handmaid's Tale and Angel Catbird. Awards include two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Order of Canada.

Margaret Brownley writes historical and Christian romance, with frontier and pioneer life, ranch life, women detectives and Texas among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 41 books from Full Circle (1987) to Dog Days of Summer Bride (2020), and several early titles were published under the names Megan Brownley and Kate Damon. Series include A Rocky Creek Romance, the Brides of Last Chance Ranch, the Undercover Ladies, Two-Time Texas and the Haywire Brides. Brownley, born on 30 July, wrote for magazines before books, with more than 400 articles in print.

Margaret Coel's series include Wind River Reservation, Arapaho Ten Commandments and Catherine McLeod, alongside non-fiction and short stories. Subjects name Vicky Holden and John O'Malley as characters and cover Arapaho Indians, women lawyers, clergy and Wyoming. The 34 catalogued books run from Chief Left Hand (1981) to Man Found Dead in Park (2017). The Eagle Catcher (1995), The Ghost Walker (1996) and The Dream Stalker (1997) are among the titles. The catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Christian romance and romantic suspense make up the catalogue of Margaret Daley, and the subject tags also mark inspirational fiction and the Love Inspired line. The catalogue holds 110 books from A Matter of Pride (1983) to Into the Danger (2021). Family for Keeps, Sadie's Hero and The Power of Love all appeared in 2002, and Gold in the Fire (2004) and Light in the Storm (2005) came soon after. Series include Strong Women, Extraordinary Situations; Fostered by Love; Guardians Inc.; Lone Star Justice; Men of the Texas Rangers; Caring Canines; Alaskan Search and Rescue; and Heart of the Amazon. Widows, bodyguards and missing persons recur in the tags.

Margaret Dickinson, born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and also known as Margaret Elizabeth Muggeson, writes historical sagas set largely in England. Her first novel, Pride of the Courtneys, appeared in 1968, when she was twenty-five, and the catalogue has since grown to 43 books, reaching A Woman of Spirit (2026). The Lincolnshire Fleethaven Trilogy gathers Plough the Furrow (1994), Sow the Seed (1995) and Reap the Harvest (1996). Abbeyford, the Maitland Trilogy, Eveleen Hardcastle and Buffer Girls are her other series, with social class, inheritance and workhouses among the recurring subjects.

Margaret Anne Doody, born on 21 September 1939, is a Canadian writer of historical detective fiction and a feminist literary critic. Doody teaches as a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame, helped found its PhD in Literature Program, and directed that program from 2001 to 2007. Aristotle is the series on the site, and the catalogue lists Aristotle Detective (1978), Aristotle And Poetic Justice (2000), Aristotle and the Secrets of Life (2002), Poison in Athens (2004) and Mysteries Of Eleusis (2005). Other titles include The Alchemists (1980), Frances Burney (1988), The True Story of the Novel (1996), Tropic of Venice (2006) and Jane Austen's Names (2015). Subject headings name Fanny Burney, women authors, and literary history and criticism.

Margaret Drabble

39 books• 3 series

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd (born 5 June 1939), is an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. The Millstone (1965) won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden (1967) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Drabble received the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973 and an honour from the University of Cambridge in 2006. The catalogue counts 39 books from Summer Bird Cage (1963) to Margaret Drabble on the Romantics (2025), with Radiant Way a series.

Birds name the early novels of Margaret Duffy: A Murder of Crows (1987), Death of a Raven, Brass Eagle, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Rook-Shoot, Gallows Bird. Two series carry the catalogue, one following the writer Ingrid Langley and the intelligence officer Patrick Gillard, the other the police officer Joanna McKenzie, both set in Britain. 30 books span 1987 to The Not Quite Perfect Murderer in 2021, at a median of 288 pages.

Margaret Frazer was the pen name of Gail Lynn Brown (26 November 1946 to 4 February 2013), an American writer of more than twenty historical mystery novels plus short stories. The name was first shared with Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld for The Novice's Tale (1992), which introduced the Benedictine nun Dame Frevisse, and the partnership lasted through The Murderer's Tale (1996), the sixth Frevisse book. From The Prioress' Tale (1997), an Edgar Award nominee, Gail Brown wrote as Margaret Frazer alone. The catalogue lists 38 books up to Circle of Witches (2012), with Joliffe the Player also among the characters and subjects including nuns, women sleuths and England.

Margaret George

9 books• 1 series

Margaret George, born in 1943, is an American historical novelist who writes epic fictional biographies, researched in detail and long in the telling, the median catalogued book runs to 630 pages. Rulers and figures out of history and scripture are the subjects: Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Magdalene, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I and Nero. Nine books are catalogued, from The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1986) to Emperor Nero: The Splendour Before The Dark (2019). Several reached the New York Times bestseller list, the Cleopatra novel became an Emmy-nominated ABC miniseries in 1999, and the novels have been published in 21 languages.

Margaret Irwin

18 books• 1 series

Margaret Emma Faith Irwin, who lived from 27 March 1889 to 11 December 1967, was an English author of historical novels and a nonfiction biography of Sir Walter Raleigh. The catalogue tags Irwin's books with Elizabeth I, the English Civil War, royalists, princes and courtiers, Scotland and France. Knock Four Times (1927) is the earliest listed title. The Stranger Prince (1937), The Gay Galliard (1941), Young Bess (1944) and Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948) follow, and Elizabeth Trilogy is the series credited to Irwin.

Margaret Killjoy

13 books• 2 series

Margaret Killjoy is an American author, musician and podcast host. Killjoy is best known for speculative fiction in fantasy and folk horror, especially the three-book Danielle Cain series. Killjoy founded the feminist black metal band Feminazgûl in 2018 and hosts the podcasts Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and Live Like The World is Dying. The catalogue holds 13 books from A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse (2007) to The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice (2025), including the Daughters of the Empty Throne series.

Margaret Lashley writes cozy mysteries with women sleuths at the centre. The catalogue runs to 33 books published between 2017 and 2026, opening with Glad One: Crazy is a Relative Term and reaching Almost a Birdbrain Idea. The Val Fremden Mysteries and A Val Fremden Humorous Mystery form the longest run, with the Freaky Florida Mystery Adventures, the Doreen Diller Mystery books and Mind's Eye Investigations alongside them. Lashley continues to publish.

Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 - January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and ranks among the major figures of Canadian literature. Laurence founded the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit organization set up to support the country's writing community. The catalogue holds 23 books, from A Tree for Poverty (1954) to Recognition and Revelation (2020), taking in This Side Jordan (1960), The Prophet's Camel Bell (1963), The Stone Angel (1964) and A Jest of God (1966). The Manawaka Sequence is the series recorded under Laurence's name, and subjects include Canadian fiction, women, travel, correspondence and biography.

Margaret Leroy, a British romantic novelist born in November 1951, grew up in the New Forest and read music at St Hilda's College, Oxford. Trust (1999) became the 2003 British television film Loving You, with a screenplay by Matthew Hall. Later novels include The River House (2005), Yes, My Darling Daughter (2009) and The Soldier's Wife (2011), and A Brief Affair followed. The catalogue lists 12 Leroy books starting with Miscarriage (1990), with the Second World War, mothers and daughters, married women and psychology among the subjects.

Margaret Loudon writes cosy mysteries in two series. A Sweet Nothings Lingerie Mystery came first, with Murder Unmentionable (2012), Laced with Poison (2013) and A Fatal Slip (2014); the Open Book Mysteries followed, running from Murder in the Margins (2020) through A Fatal Footnote (2021) and Peril on the Page (2022) to A Deadly Dedication (2023). Seven titles are catalogued in all.

Margaret Mallory writes historical romance. Eleven books are catalogued between 2009 and 2018, opening with Knight of Desire (2009) and closing with Kidnapped by a Rogue (2018). Knight of Pleasure (2009) and Knight of Passion (2010) follow the first, then The Guardian (2011), The Sinner (2011), The Warrior (2012) and The Chieftain (2013), before Captured by a Laird (2014) and Claimed by a Highlander (2016). Douglas Legacy is the one series catalogued, and nothing new has appeared since 2018.

Margaret Maron

43 books• 6 series

Two detective series carry Margaret Maron's mysteries: Judge Deborah Knott, a woman on the bench, and Sigrid Harald, a police officer. One Coffee With (1981) opens the catalogue, followed by Death of a Butterfly, Bloody Kin and The Right Jack. Forty-three books reach Take Out in 2017, and the catalogue is listed as complete.

Margaret Marr has 19 books in the catalogue, starting with Knight of Valentine (2000) and running to Moon of Little Winter (2020). Marr's series are Grave Keeper and Hayton County Supernatural. Poetry and single-author short stories are among the recorded subjects. Other listed titles include Memories of a Secret Friend (2001), Pieces Of My Heart (2007) and Banshee (2020).

Margaret Mayhew writes historical fiction and romance, with the Second World War as her main period: Bluebirds (1993) follows four women in wartime, and The Crew (1997) and the Royal Air Force supply further material. The Village Mysteries series turns to crime in English village settings. Mayhew was born in London within the sound of Bow Bell, and her earliest memories are of the German Blitz; her father was a pioneering heart surgeon at Guy's Hospital and her mother was French. Educated at Malvern Girls' College and in Lausanne, Mayhew began writing in her mid-thirties and published The Master of Aysgarth in 1976. The catalogue holds 27 titles through 2020.

Margaret Millar wrote mystery and suspense, 27 books catalogued from The Invisible Worm (1941) to The Couple Next Door, dated 2004. Millar was Canadian-American, born in Ontario in 1915 and dead in 1994, and was married to Kenneth Millar, who wrote as Ross Macdonald. Three series run through the work: Paul Prye, Inspector Sands and the lawyer Tom Aragon. Santa Barbara, where the Millars lived for decades, appears in later novels under the invented names San Felice and Santa Felicia. Psychological suspense, murder, mentally ill women and family relationships are the recurring subjects, with The Iron Gates (1945) and Do Evil in Return (1950) early in the run.

The Margaret Mitchell titles catalogued here are collections assembled long after Mitchell's lifetime: letters, girlhood writings and journalism rather than novels. Gone with the Wind Letters (1987) leads, followed by Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee (1989), Lost Laysen (1996), Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings (2000), Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000) and I Want to Be Famous (2002). Six books are catalogued in all, and authorship, correspondence and the Civil War in Georgia are the recurring subjects.

Police dogs and Colorado ground the Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, Margaret Mizushima's single series, where murder and investigation supply the plots and a woman sleuth stands at the centre. Eleven catalogued books run from Killing Trail (2015) through Burning Ridge (2018), Standing Dead (2023) and Dying Cry (2025) to Fighting Edge in 2026.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

55 books• 12 series

Margaret Peterson Haddix, born April 9, 1964, is an American writer best known for two children's series: Shadow Children (1998-2006) and The Missing (2008-2015). She also wrote the tenth book of The 39 Clues, a series with multiple authors. The catalogue lists 55 of her books from Running Out of Time (1995) to Moonleapers (2025), including Among the Hidden (1998), Just Ella (1999) and Turnabout (2000). Other series listings include Palace Chronicles, Children of Exile, Greystone Secrets, Mysteries of Trash and Treasure and Under Their Skin. Subjects include time travel, science fiction, brothers and sisters, and schools.

Margaret Rogerson has 5 books in the catalogue. An Enchantment of Ravens (2017) came first, then Sorcery of Thorns (2019), Vespertine (2021) and Mysteries of Thorn Manor (2023), with Knight Eternal scheduled for 2027. Sorcery of Thorns is the one series credited to Rogerson. Subjects recorded across the books include fantasy fiction, magic, fairies, princes, apprentices, libraries, painters and artists, and the titles are filed as children's fiction.

Margaret Sidney

25 books• 2 series

Margaret Sidney was the pen name of Harriett Lothrop (1844-1924), an American children's writer. The Five Little Peppers series is Sidney's best known work, opening with Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) and ending with Our Davie Pepper (1916). Lothrop took over the publishing company of her husband, Daniel Lothrop, after his death. The couple bought The Wayside and made the house a literary centre. Lothrop also founded the Children of the American Revolution. The catalogue counts 25 books.

Margaret Stohl

15 books• 4 series

Margaret Stohl is an American writer of 14 novels, five volumes of comics and several video games. The catalogue lists 15 books from 2013 to 2025, including the Mighty Captain Marvel Graphic Novels and Cats vs. Robots series. Icons (2013) and Idols (2014) are early titles, followed by Forever Red (2015), Red Vengeance (2016) and Royce Rolls (2017). Superheroes, women superheroes, the Avengers and extraterrestrial beings are among the subjects. Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel (2025) is the newest book.

Historical romance heads the subject tags for Margaret Tanner, whose 174 catalogued books run from Allison's War (2007) to A New Pa for Tim (2026). Other tags include Australia, England and South Africa. The series list includes Stagecoach Brides, Western Flower Brides, Western Lawmen Brides, Pregnant Western Widows, Range War Women and Gemstone Brides. Forbidden Love and Wild Oats also came out in 2007, and V. McKevitt shares credit on 2 books.

Margaret Truman

41 books• 1 series

Capital Crimes, a mystery series set in Washington, D.C., is the fiction Margaret Truman is listed for. Mac Smith, a law teacher, and Annabel Reed-Smith, an art dealer, recur through novels including Murder in the White House (1980), Murder on Capitol Hill (1981) and Murder in the Supreme Court (1982). The listing also holds biography, among it Harry S. Truman (1973), and runs to 41 entries ending at Murder at the CDC (2022).

Margaret Watson writes romance, with bodyguards, women physicians, orphans and city and town life among the subjects. The 59 catalogued books run from An Innocent Man (1995) to Until There Was You (2025), and early titles include An Honorable Man (1996) and Cowboy with a Badge (1998). Watson's series include Blackhawk Security, Donovan Family, Into the Storm, Cameron Cowboys, McInnes Triplets, Devereux Family, Welcome to Otter Tail and Door County.

Margaret Weis

109 books• 34 series

Margaret Edith Weis, born March 16, 1948, is an American fantasy and science fiction author who, with Tracy Hickman at TSR, Inc., created the Dragonlance role-playing game world. Weis founded Sovereign Press and Margaret Weis Productions, which license television and film franchises for role-playing games. Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons in 1999, and the Origins Hall of Fame inducted Weis in 2002. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) is among the catalogued titles, and series include Death Gate Cycle, Darksword and Star Of The Guardians.

Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 - November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, among them The Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947), both with illustrations by Clement Hurd. Brown has been called the laureate of the nursery. Brown also published as Golden MacDonald for Doubleday, as Timothy Hay for Harper & Brothers, and, with Edith Thacher Hurd, as Juniper Sage for William R. Scott. The catalogue lists 166 books, opening with When the Wind Blew (1937), then I Like Bugs and The Steam Roller (1938). Stories in rhyme, rabbits, bedtime and sound recur in the subjects.

Margaret Yorke (1924–2012) wrote English crime fiction across five decades. 44 books are catalogued under the name, from Summer Flight (1957) to an edition of Cause for Concern dated 2014. Patrick Grant, an Oxford don who investigates, is her one recurring detective; the rest of the catalogue is standalone suspense about criminals, families and murder in England. Yorke was born Margaret Beda Larminie and wrote under the Yorke name throughout her career.

Margarita Engle

40 books• 1 series

Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet who writes most of her books in verse, for children, young adults and adults alike. Cuban history and the natural world supply her subjects, from The Poet Slave of Cuba (2006) through The Surrender Tree (2008) and Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba (2009). The Surrender Tree made Engle the first Latino writer to receive a Newbery Honor, in 2009. Engle served as the sixth Young People's Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019 and won the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. Her catalogue runs to 40 books, beginning with Singing to Cuba (1993) and reaching Evamar (2026).

Marge Poore and various others is a shared credit in the catalogue for a run of recipe collections dated 1996 to 2014. The earliest title is 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes (1996). 1,000 Jewish Recipes (2000), 1,000 Mexican Recipes (2001), 1,000 Indian Recipes (2005) and 1,000 Vegan Recipes (2009) follow. Subject headings cover vegetarian, Jewish, Mexican and Indian cooking and the gluten-free diet. 1,000 Spanish Recipes (2014) is the newest title.

Margery Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English crime novelist of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, counted with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh as one of four Queens of Crime. Albert Campion, a gentleman sleuth, is Allingham's most remembered creation; Campion made a first appearance in The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) and went on to anchor 18 novels and many short stories. Early readers took Campion for a parody of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey. The catalogue begins with Blackkerchief Dick (1923) and includes Mystery Mile (1930), Police at the Funeral (1931) and Death of a Ghost (1934), with some titles written as Maxwell March.

Margery Scott is credited with 39 books, from Emma's Wish (2011) to A Stranger in Paradise (2025). Early titles include Wild Wyoming Wind (2011), Stranded with the Surgeon (2012) and The Firefighter and the Lady Doc (2012). Scott's series include Morgans of Rocky Ridge, Rocky Ridge, Behind The Badge, Mail-Order Brides of Sapphire Springs and Brides of Coldwater Creek. Margery Scott is still publishing.

Margery Sharp was an English writer who produced 25 novels for adults, two mysteries, four plays, 14 children's novels and many short stories. The Rescuers is her best known work, a children's sequence about a heroic mouse named Miss Bianca and her partner Bernard, filmed by Walt Disney Productions in 1977 and given a sequel in 1990. Sharp's catalogue holds 40 titles, from Rhododendron Pie (1930) through The Nutmeg Tree (1937) and Cluny Brown (1944) to Bernard Into Battle (1978).

Margi Preus is an American children's writer living in Duluth, Minnesota. Preus is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner, and Heart of a Samurai (2010) won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Preus books have been named ALA/ALSC Notables and translated into many languages. Preus studied at Luther College and Binghamton University and taught at the College of St. Scholastica and the University of Minnesota Duluth. The catalogue lists 17 books from The Legend of the Lady Slipper (1999) to The Case of the Pilfered Pearls (2026), with Northwoods, Samurai and Shrew Detective as series.

Margo Bond Collins has 95 books catalogued from 2013 to 2026, tagged romance and fantasy. Waking Up Dead (2013) is the first and The Alien’s Wild Starblaze Realm (2026) the latest. Series include Khanavai Warrior Bride Games, Galactic Gladiator Games, Shifter Shield, Empire of Frost and Flame, Midlife Monsters, Moonstone Pack, Vampirarchy and Tessa Fury, Accidental Bounty Hunter. Collins is an American author, a former college English professor, and a USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller.

Margot Arnold is the pen name of Petronelle Marguerite Mary Cook, née Crouch, a mystery novelist born in Britain who became American. Cook lived from May 16, 1925 to September 22, 2016. The catalogue lists 19 Margot Arnold books from The Officers' Woman (1972) to The Midas Murders (1995), including the Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower series. Subject tags name archaeologists, women anthropologists and England, and other titles include Exit Actors, Dying (1979) and The Cape Cod Caper (1980).

Margot Bennett, born Margot Mitchell (1912-1980), was a Scottish-born screenwriter and a novelist of crime and thrillers. The catalogue lists 11 books published between 1945 and 1968, from Time to Change Hats (1945) to The Furious Masters (1968), including Away Went the Little Fish (1946), The Golden Pebble (1948), The Widow of Bath (1952), The Long Way Back (1955), The Man Who Didn't Fly (1955) and Someone from the Past (1958). The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation (1964) sits in the run too, and the listing ties Bennett to the British Library Crime Classics reissues. Martin Edwards shares a credit on 1 title.

Margot Douaihy writes mysteries and poetry. Six books are catalogued. Girls Like You (2015) is a poetry collection and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; Scranton Lace (2018) and Bandit/Queen (2022) follow, with American poetry among the subject headings. The Sister Holiday Mysteries come next, in Scorched Grace (2023), Blessed Water (2024) and Divine Ruin (2026), and have been named among the Best Crime Novels of the Year by the New York Times and other publications.

Margot Livesey

12 books

Born in Scotland in 1953, Margot Livesey writes novels, short stories and essays on writing. Livesey's honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN New England Award and the Massachusetts Book Award. Livesey was fiction editor of Ploughshares and judged the PEN/Bellwether Prize in 2012. For Margot Livesey books in order, the 12 catalogued titles begin with Learning by Heart: Short Stories (1986) and include Eva Moves the Furniture (2001), The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012) and The Road from Belhaven (2024).

Marguerite Henry (born Marguerite Breithaupt, 13 April 1902 to 26 November 1997) was an American children's author who wrote fifty-nine books drawn from true stories of horses and other animals. King of the Wind, a 1948 horse book, won Henry the Newbery Medal, and two other Henry books were runners-up. Misty of Chincoteague (1947), one of those runners-up, led to several related titles and the 1961 film Misty. The catalogue lists 34 Henry books from Birds at Home (1942) to Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley (1996), including Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1945). Subjects include ponies, the Chincoteague pony and horse racing.

Mari Hannah writes police procedurals set in England. DCI Kate Daniels is her recurring investigator, and Stone & Oliver and Matthew Ryan are her other series. Sixteen books are catalogued between 2010 and 2025, opening with The Murder Wall (2010) and running through Settled Blood (2012), Deadly Deceit (2013), Killing for Keeps (2014), The Silent Room (2015), Gallows Drop (2016), The Insider (2018), The Lost (2018) and The Death Messenger (2019) to Her Sister's Killer (2025). Murder investigation, missing persons, conspiracy and Special Branch supply the subject matter, at a median of 416 pages.

Mari Jungstedt, born in Stockholm in 1962, is a Swedish crime novelist and journalist. The Anders Knutas series began with Unseen (2003) and set its first five books on the island of Gotland, pairing a detective superintendent with the journalist Johan Berg. Later series move south, in the Canary Island books and Malagasviten. Twenty-one titles are catalogued through 2024, several translated into English by Tiina Nunnally and two filmed for Swedish television. Jungstedt reported for Swedish public radio and television before writing fiction.

Mari Sandoz

24 books

Mari Sandoz (May 11, 1896 - March 10, 1966) was an American novelist, biographer, lecturer and teacher who ranks among the leading writers of the American West. Pioneer life and the Plains Indians are the subjects Sandoz returned to most, with Nebraska and the Dakota people prominent in the library headings. The 24 catalogued books open with Slogum House (1937) and include The Buffalo Hunters (1954), The Horsecatcher (1957), These Were the Sioux (1961) and Love Song to the Plains (1966). The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire carries a 2014 date.

Maria Adolfsson writes mystery fiction in the Doggerland series. Eight books are catalogued between 2018 and 2024. Fatal Isles (2018) opens the run, with Doggerland Deception (2021), Wild Shores (2022) and Cruel Tides (2023) following. The catalogue also lists Spring eller do (2021), Fallvind (2022), Nodvandigt ont (2023) and Tiga som muren (2024). The books are indexed under Germanic literature, and the series is ongoing.

Maria Dahvana Headley

13 books• 1 series

Maria Dahvana Headley, born June 21, 1977, is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, playwright, editor and translator. Headley's translation of Beowulf won the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Related Work and the 2021 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Magonia is a young-adult space fantasy, Queen of Kings is alternate-history fantasy about Cleopatra, and The Mere Wife retells Beowulf. The short story Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream earned a 2012 Nebula nomination, and The Traditional was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award finalist. The catalogue lists 13 books from The Year of Yes (2005) to The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods (2020).

Maria Grace writes historical romance and fantasy, and the catalogue lists 45 books from Darcy's Decision (2012) to Dancing with Dragons (2025). Early titles include The Future Mrs. Darcy (2012), Twelfth Night at Longbourn (2013) and A Jane Austen Christmas (2014). Grace's series include Jane Austen's Dragons, Given Good Principles, Darcys' Christmas, Jane Austen Regency Life, Queen of Rosings Park, Sweet Tea, World Wrights and Kayavan Chronicles.