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A Nantucket Wedding
Nancy Thayer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
Joseph Plumb Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1830

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
David Crockett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1834

A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
James E. Seaver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1824

A Nation Under Our Feet
Steven Hahn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1)
Marie Brennan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Nearly Normal Family
M. T. Edvardsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Nervous Splendor
Frederic Morton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
Henry Cole

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A New Life
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A New Religious America
Diana Eck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A New Season
Terry Fallis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Philip Massinger

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1625

A Nietzsche Reader
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

A Night Divided
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

A Night in the Lonesome October
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Night Like This
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Night to Remember
Walter Lord

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

A Night to Surrender
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Noble Masquerade (Hawthorne House, #1)
Kristi Ann Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Noise Downstairs
Linwood Barclay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Not So Meet Cute
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Novel Love Story
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

A Number
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

A Nurse's Story
Peter Baida

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Nada
Carmen Laforet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Nadja
Andre Breton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Nagamandala: Play With A Cobra
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Naïve. Super
Tor Ketil Solberg, Erlend Loe

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1996

Naked
Raine Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Naked City
Ellen Datlow

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2011

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Charles Wheelan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Naked Empire
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Naked Heat
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Naked In Death
J. D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Naked Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Namesake
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
Adrienne Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Names for the Sea
Sarah Moss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Nana
Émile Zola, Transl. Gerhard Krüger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Nana, Vol. 1
Ai Yazawa

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Nanberry: Black Brother White
Jackie French

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Nancy Drew Mystery Series
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #8)
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1932

Nantucket Nights
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Nantucket Sisters
Nancy Thayer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Naomi
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
Juan R.I. Cole

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert J. Shiller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1871

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1845

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
Henry Box Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1849

Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client
Masashi Kishimoto

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Naruto, Vol. 1: Uzumaki Naruto
Masashi Kishimoto

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

NARUTO -ナルト- 巻ノ六十二
Masashi Kishimoto

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Nasty, Stinky Sneakers
Eve Bunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Natchez Burning
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Lessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1779

Nation
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Nationalism
Rabindranath Tagore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1917

National Velvet
Enid Bagnold

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1935

Nations and Nationalism
Ernest Gellner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Native Son
Richard Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
Suzette Haden Elgin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions" (African American)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Natural Beauty
Ling Ling Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Natural Born Charmer
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Natural History: A Selection
Pliny the Elder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 77

Natural law, or, The science of justice: a treatise on natural law, natural justice, natural rights, natural liberty, and natural society: showing ... is an absurdity, a usurpation, and a crime.
Lysander Spooner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1870

Naturally Tan
Tan France

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Natural Theology
William Paley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1802

Nature Girl
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Naughty in Nice (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #5)
Rhys Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Navigating Early
Clare Vanderpool

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
Saul Friedländer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Neanderthal Seeks Human
Penny Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Nearly Gone
Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
Henry Cloud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Necessary Lies
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Necessary Losses
Judith Viorst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Necessary People
Anna Pitoniak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Drew Gilpin Faust

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Necropolis (Power of Five, #4)
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Necroscope (Necroscope, #1)
Brian Lumley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Need
Carrie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Needful Things
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Need to Know
Karen Cleveland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018