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The Nature of the Beast

Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nature Principle

Richard Louv

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nazi Hunters

Neal Bascomb

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2013

The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1884

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1926

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

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 Neverending Story

Michael Ende, Transl. Ralph Manheim

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

The Never List

Jade Presley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1883

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The New Dress

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

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

Michelle Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

Mary Claire Haver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The New One Minute Manager

Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Next Conversation

Jefferson Fisher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Night Came Slowly

Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1895

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Diary

Veera Hiranandani

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Nightingale and the Rose

Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1888

The Night of the Iguana

Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Night She Disappeared

April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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 the Ghost Got In

James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

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 Wanderer

Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Night War

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night We Lost Him

Laura Dave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Nine Billion Names of God

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1967

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Nineties: A Book

Chuck Klosterman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Nix

Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The No-Guitar Blues

Gary Soto

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1990

The Nonexistent Knight

Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1836

The Nose

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1916

The Note

Alafair Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1910

The Notorious Benedict Arnold

Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2010

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

E.E. Evans-Pritchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Judith Rich Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

Jason Fung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Ryan Holiday

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Octopus: A Story of California

Frank Norris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

The Octoroon

Dion Boucicault

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1859

The Odd Couple

Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Odyssey

Homer, Transl. Emily Wilson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Odyssey

Gareth Hinds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2010

The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Theogony

Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Ogress and the Orphans

Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1840

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1952

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Luis Sepulveda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1852

The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Old Wives' Tale

Arnold Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Oligarch's Daughter

Joseph Finder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Theology

Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Once and Future King

T. H. White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1958

The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The One

John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The One and Only Bob

Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The One and Only Family

Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

The One And Only Ivan

Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The One and Only Ruby

Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Marianne Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1973

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Jay Papasan, Gary Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Only News I Know

Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1929

The Only One Left

Riley Sager

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

Garrett M. Graff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Only Road

Alexandra Diaz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Only Woman in the Room

Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Theo of Golden

Allen Levi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Open Boat

Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1897

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

The Open Window

Saki

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911