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Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Kent Nerburn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

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

Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

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

Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1898

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 Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Farley Mowat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1963

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

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 Flinch
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Never Lie
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Never Never
Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Never Shall I Forget
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2023

New Atlantis
Francis Bacon

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1627

New England Bound
Wendy Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

New from Here
Kelly Yang

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

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

News from Nowhere
William Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

News of the World
Paulette Jiles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

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

Next of Kin
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Next to Normal
Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Play | 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

Nibelungenlied
Anonymous

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

Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
Lois P. Frankel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1839

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Night
Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1956

Night
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

Night at the Fiestas
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Nightbane
Alex Aster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Nightbooks
J. A. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Night, Death, Mississippi
Robert Hayden

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Nightfall
Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
Ignatia Broker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Night Hoops
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Night, Mother
Marsha Norman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1984

Night Road
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Nightshade
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Night Shift
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Night Watch: A Novel
Jayne Anne Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Nightwatching
Tracy Sierra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Nightwood
Djuna Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Nimona
N. D. Stevenson

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

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | 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 | Adult | Published in 2023

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

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