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Nineteen
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1517

Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ninth Ward
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Nisei Daughter
Monica Sone

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

Njals Saga
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1280

No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard C. Schwartz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1961

Nobody's Fool
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Susan Kuklin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2008

No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Nocticadia
Keri Lake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

No Easy Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

No Exit
Taylor Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

No Images
William Waring Cuney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Colin Beavan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Noises Off
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

No Logo
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

No Man Is an Island
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1624

No Matter How Loud I Shout
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

No More Cake Here
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

No More Dead Dogs
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Gardiner Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

No Name in the Street
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

None of This Is True: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

No-No Boy
John Okada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

No One Can Know: A Novel
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

No One is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No One Writes To The Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1961

No Pretty Pictures
Anita Lobel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1998

No Promises In The Wind
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

Nora Goes Off Script
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Nora Webster
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Normal People
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

North
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Northern Spy
Flynn Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Northwind
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

North Woods
Daniel Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

NOS4A2
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

No Second Chance
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

No Second Troy
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

No Sugar
Jack Davis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

No Summit Out Of Sight: The True Story Of The Youngest Person To Climb The Seven Summits
Jordan Romero

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

No Sweetness Here
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1969

Not a Happy Family
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Talking
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Not an Easy Win
Chrystal D. Giles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

No Telephone to Heaven
Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Notes From A Small Island
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Notes from a Young Black Chef
Kwame Onwuachi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Notes From The Midnight Driver
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1864

Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1955

Notes on an Execution
Danya Kukafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Notes on Nursing
Florence Nightingale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1860

Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1785

Notes to John
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Nothing But The Truth
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Nothing Like the Movies
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Nothing More to Tell
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Nothing to Envy
Barbara Demick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nothing Twice
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1931

Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Not So Pure and Simple
Lamar Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Not Waving but Drowning
Stevie Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

No Two Persons: A Novel
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Noughts And Crosses
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

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

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

Nowhere Boy
Katherine Marsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

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

No Witchcraft for Sale
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1956

Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024