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New York Days
Willie Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

New York Dead (Stone Barrington, #1)
Stuart Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

New York to Dallas
J.D. Robb, Susan Ericksen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Next
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Next: A Novel
James Hynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Next Is Now: 5 Steps for Embracing Change―Building a Business that Thrives into the Future
Lior Arussy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Next of Kin
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Next to Normal
Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2008

Next Year In Havana
Chanel Cleeton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Nexus (Nexus, #1)
Ramez Naam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Nibelungenlied
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1200

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
Molly Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Nice Work
David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

Nick and Charlie
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Short Story | Published in 2015

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
David Levithan, Rachel Cohn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Nicked
M.T. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Nickel Mountain
John Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Nicolae
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Nietzsche
Peter Berkowitz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Night
Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1956

Night and Day
Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Night at the Crossroads
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Night at the Fiestas
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Nightbird
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nightbooks
J. A. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Night Broken
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
Harry M. Caudill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Night Crossing
Don J. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Night Embrace
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Nightfall
Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Night Fall
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Nightfall: Devil's Night #4
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Nightfall (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #6)
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Night Film
Marisha Pessl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Night Hoops
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Nightingale
David Farland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Nightmare Abbey
Thomas Love Peacock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1818

Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Nightmare in Berlin
Hans Fallada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Nightmare Mountain
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Nightmares!
Jason Segel, Kirsten Miller, Transl. Karl Kwasny

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

Night, Mother
Marsha Norman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Night Music
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Night of Miracles (Mason, #2)
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Night of the Grizzlies
Jack Olsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Night of the Howling Dogs
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Night of the Living Dummy
R.L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1993

Night of the Living Trekkies
Kevin David Anderson, Sam Stall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, #5)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Night of the Scorpion
Nissim Ezekiel

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Night of the Soul Stealer
Patrick Arrasmith, Joseph Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

Night on Fire
Ronald Kidd

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Night over Water
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Night Play
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Night Pleasures
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Night Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Night Road
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Night School
Lee Child, Dick Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Night School (Jack Reacher, #21)
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Night Sea Journey: A Tale of the Supernatural
Paula Cappa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Nightshade
Andrea Cremer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Nights of Rain and Stars
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
Alan Furst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
Philip Carlo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Night Star
Alyson Noel

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Night Train
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier, Barbara Harshav

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Nightwatching
Tracy Sierra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Night Watch (Watch, #1)
Sergei Lukyanenko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Night Wherever We Go
Tracey Rose Peyton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Nightwood
Djuna Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Nightwoods
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nightwork
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Nil (Nil, #1)
Lynne Matson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

Nimona
N. D. Stevenson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Nim's Island (Nim, #1)
Wendy Orr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Nine Coaches Waiting
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Nine Days
Toni Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Nine Dragons
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Nine Elms
Robert Bryndza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016