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Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nobody's Fool

Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

No Exit

Taylor Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

No Great Mischief

Alistair MacLeod

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

No Longer at Ease

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

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

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

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

Northern Spy

Flynn Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Not a Happy Family

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Telephone to Heaven

Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Not Wanted on the Voyage

Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

No Two Persons: A Novel

Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Novel Without a Name

Thu Huong Duong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

November 9

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

NW

Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Oathbringer

Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Odds Against Tomorrow

Nathaniel Rich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Off to the Races

Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Of Love And Other Demons

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1937

Of Women and Salt

Gabriela Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oh, William

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Stephanie Storey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Oil on Water

Helon Habila

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Old School

Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xóchitl González

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Olive, Again

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Omeros

Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

On a Quiet Street

Seraphina Nova Glass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

On Beauty

Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Once There Were Wolves

Charlotte McConaghy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Upon a River

Diane Setterfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel

Quentin Tarantino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Upon a Wardrobe

Patti Callahan Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Once Were Warriors

Alan Duff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Once We Were Brothers

Ronald H. Balson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Amazing Thing

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

One by One

Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

One Day

David Nicholls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Day in December

Josie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

One Foot in Eden

Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

One Italian Summer

Rebecca Serle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One Last Stop

Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

One of Us Is Dead

Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

One Second After

William Forstchen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

One Summer in Savannah: A Novel

Terah Shelton Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

One True Loves

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

One Two Three

Laurie Frankel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Only the Beautiful

Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

On Mystic Lake

Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

On Such A Full Sea

Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

On the Beach

Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Oona Out of Order

Margarita Montimore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Open City

Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Open Season

C. J. Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Orbital

Samantha Harvey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Ordinary Grace

William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ordinary People

Judith Guest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Origin

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Other Birds

Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Country Friends

Gary Shteyngart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Our Missing Hearts

Celeste Ng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Our Sister Killjoy

Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Our Souls At Night

Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015