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The Need
Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Negotiator
Dee Henderson, Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Negotiator (O'Malley, #1)
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Negro In Pennsylvania: Slavery, Servitude, Freedom, 1639-1861
Edward Raymond Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Neighbor
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Neighbor Favor
Kristina Forest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Neighbors
Hannah Mary McKinnon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Neon Lawyer
Victor Methos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Neon Rain
James Lee Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Neptune Project (The Neptune Project, #1)
Polly Holyoke

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Nest
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nether
Jennifer Haley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

The Neverending Story
Michael Ende, Transl. Ralph Manheim

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

The Never Game (Colter Shaw, #1)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Never King
Nikki St. Crowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Never List
Jade Presley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Never War
D.J. MacHale, William Dufris

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

The Newcomer
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The New Couple
Alison James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
Perry Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict
Josh McDowell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The New Girl (Fear Street, #1)
R.L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The New Kids
Brooke Hauser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The New Life
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Daniel Yergin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The New Me
Halle Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The New New Thing
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The New One Minute Manager
Spencer Johnson, Ken Blanchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
Mike Birbiglia

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

The New Republic
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly
David Meerman Scott

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The News about Dinosaurs
Patricia Lauber

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The News: A User's Manual
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The New Science of Learning
Terry Doyle, Todd Zakrajsek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)
Eric Voegelin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

The New Testament
Jericho Brown

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The New Wilderness
Diane Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #2)
Winston S. Churchill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1956

The New World of Mr Tompkins
George Gamow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The New Yorkers
Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
George Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Next Always
Nora Roberts, MacLeod Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Next Best Thing
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Next Best Thing (Gideon's Cove, #2)
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
Sonia Shah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Next Great Paulie Fink
Ali Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Next Mrs. Parrish
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Next Thing on My List
Jill Smolinski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Next Wife
Kaira Rouda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Nicomachean Ethics
Jonathan Barnes, Aristotle, Hugh Tredennick, J.A.K. Thomson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 351

The Night Before
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Bird
Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Night Eternal
Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Fire
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Gardener
Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Night Guest
Fiona McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Night Hawks
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Night in Lisbon
Erich Maria Remarque, Ralph Manheim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Night in Question
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

The Night Is for Hunting (Tomorrow, #6)
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Night It Ended
Katie Garner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Nightjar (The Nightjar, #1)
Deborah Hewitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Night Listener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Night Manager
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Nightmare
Laura A. Wideburg, Lars Kepler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Night Masquerade
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Night of Wenceslas
Lionel Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Night Olivia Fell
Christina McDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Portrait
Laura Morelli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night She Disappeared
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Night Shift
Alex Finlay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Night Sister
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Night Stalker
Robert Bryndza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Strangers
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
Megan Goldin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night the Bed Fell
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1933

The Night the Gods Smiled (Charlie Salter, #1)
Eric Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Night the Lights Went Out
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

The Night Wanderer
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Night Watch
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006