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Nefertiti
Michelle Moran, Michelle Moran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Negative Space
B. R. Yeager

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
Deepak Malhotra, Max H. Bazerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Negroland
Margo Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Neighbor Dearest
Penelope Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Jan Tomasz Gross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Carl N. Degler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Kent Nerburn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2013

Nemesis
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Nemesis (Project Nemesis, #1)
Brendan Reichs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Nemesis: The Death Star
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Kwame Nkrumah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Neon Gods
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Neon Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nerd Camp (Nerd Camp, #1)
Elissa Brent Weissman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (NERDS, #1)
Michael Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Nero
Sarah Brianne

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Nero (Alliance, #1)
S.J. Tilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Nerve
珍妮·萊恩, 林雨蒨, Jeanne Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear
Eva Holland

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Netherland
Joseph O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Netochka Nezvanova
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1849

Nettle & Bone
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Network Effect
Martha Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Neuromancer
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Karen Horney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1950

NeuroTribes
Steve Silberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Neutron Star (Known Space)
Larry Niven

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1966

Nevada
Imogen Binnie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Never
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave
Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Never Coming Home
Hannah Mary McKinnon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Farley Mowat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1963

Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
Walter Payton, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Never Fade
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Never Fall Down
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
David Goggins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Never Forget (Victor Lessard #3)
Martin Michaud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Never Go Back
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Never Have I Ever
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Never Have I Ever: Stories
Isabel Yap

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2015

Neverhome
Laird Hunt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Never Knowing
Chevy Stevens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Never Let You Go
Chevy Stevens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Never Lie
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Never Look Back
Mary Burton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Never Love a Highlander
Maya Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Never Marry Your Brother's Best Friend
Lauren Landish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Nevermore
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Never Never
James Patterson, Candice Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Never Never: Part Two
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)
Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Never Saw Me Coming
Vera Kurian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Never Say Die: RPA's Favourite Surgeon on his Life from Doctor to Patient
Chris O'Brien

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Never Seduce a Scot
Maya Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Neverseen
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It
Chris Voss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Never Stop Walking
Christina Rickardsson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Nevertell
Katharine Orton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
Milton Meltzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Never Too Far
Abbi Glines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Neverworld Wake
Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Nevsky Prospect
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs & Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
John W. Mullins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)
Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

New England Bound
Wendy Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography & Criticism
Thomas Morton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

New from Here
Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

New Grub Street
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

New Hampshire

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Ted Conover

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

New Kid
Jerry Craft

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

New Moon
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

New Moon (Luna, #1)
Ian McDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion
Mark Cotta Vaz

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

News from Nowhere
William Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

News of a Kidnapping
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

News of the World
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905
Rebecca Edwards

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

New Spring
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

New Times
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Newton's Wake
Ken MacLeod

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
Colin G. Calloway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

New York
Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

New York Days
Willie Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993