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Not That I Could Tell
Jessica Strawser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Dunham, Joana Avillez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Not the End of the World
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

No Turning Point
Theodore Corbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Not Without My Sister
Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Not Without You
Harriet Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

No Two Persons: A Novel
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Noughts And Crosses
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Nova
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)
M. John Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Novel Without a Name
Thu Huong Duong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

November 9
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

November Blues
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

November Cotton Flower
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Novel | Adult

November Road
Lou Berney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Novum Organum
Francis Bacon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1620

Now
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths
Marcus Buckingham

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Nowhere Boy
Katherine Marsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Now in November
Josephine Winslow Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Now I Rise
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Now is the Time for Running
Michael Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
Leslie R. Groves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Now That You Mention It
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Now Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Now You See Her
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Now You See Me
Sharon J. Bolton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nubia: Real One
L.L. McKinney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Number9Dream
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Zeke Faux

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Numbering all the Bones
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Numbers
Rachel Ward

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Numbers: Book 1
Rachel Ward

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Numbers (Numbers, #1)
Rachel Ward

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Number the Stars
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Numero zero

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children
Ashley Merryman, Po Bronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Nutcracker
E.T.A. Hoffmann

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1816

Nutshell: A Novel
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

NW
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

NYPD Red
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

NYPD Red 2
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

NYPD Red 3
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nyxia
Scott Reintgen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Naked And The Dead
Norman Mailer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Naked Eye (Kendra Michaels, #3)
Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Naked Face
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Naked Sun
Chris Moore, Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Nameless City (The Nameless City, #1)
Faith Erin Hicks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Name of God is Mercy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Name of the Game Was Murder
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Name of This Book Is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Name of War
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Names
Florence Knapp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Naming
Alison Croggon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

The Nanny
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Nanny Diaries
Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement
Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
William Wells Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

The Narrowboat Summer
Anne Youngson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1694

The Narrows
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
Partha Chatterjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Natural
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Natural History of Religion
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1757

The Naturalist
Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Natural Way of Things
Charlotte Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaïdes

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1941

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Florence Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Nature of Fragile Things
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
Douglas W. Tallamy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nature of Prejudice
Gordon W. Allport

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nature of the Gods
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 46

The Nature of Witches
Rachel Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

The Nature Principle
Richard Louv

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nazi Hunter
Alan Elsner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Nazi Hunters
Neal Bascomb

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2013

The Nazi Officer's Wife
Edith Hahn Beer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Wallace Stevens

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays (Freethought Library)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Necromancer
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010