Night of the Living Rez, a linked short story collection by writer and academic Morgan Talty, follows the life of a young Indigenous man growing up and trying to find a place for himself on the Penobscot Nation’s reservation. As a citizen of the Penobscot Nation, Talty uses his identity to inform this collection’s gritty, lived-in portrayals of substance abuse, colonial trauma, and families coming together in the face of hardship. Night of the Living... Read Night of the Living Rez Summary

SummaryNight of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel written by award-winning author Ivy Ruckman. The book was the recipient of several awards, including the Golden Sower Award, the Iowa Children’s Choice Award, and the Sequoyah Children’s Book Award. It was also recommended as an Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association and Children’s Book Council. A movie of the same name based loosely on the book was... Read Night of the Twisters Summary

Best-selling author Kristin Hannah’s novel Night Road (2011) teaches readers about The Influence of Loss and the power of forgiveness. Hannah is the author of over 20 novels, the most notable of which are The Great Alone (2017), The Four Winds (2021), and The Nightingale (2015) which spent 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.This guide refers to the 2011 St. Martin’s/Griffin paperback edition of the text.Content Warning: This novel and study guide... Read Night Road Summary

Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is Stephen King’s first short story collection. The collection features 20 stories within the suspense and horror genres. King found early success with his novels Carrie (1974), ’Salem’s Lot (1975), and The Shining (1977), and his publisher encouraged him to collect his early fiction, which King wrote over the course of a decade.The stories that comprise Night Shift account for much of King’s early apprenticeship toward writing. Nine of... Read Night Shift Summary

Night Watch (2023) is a historical fiction novel by Jayne Anne Phillips. The novel follows ConaLee, a young girl in post-Civil War West Virginia, as she and her mother, Eliza, struggle to survive in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. The novel is split into parts that take place in 1864, 1874, and 1883, following Eliza and ConaLee’s life in the Appalachian Mountains and the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. As a work of postmodernism, Phillips uses... Read Night Watch Summary

Published in 2024 by Tracy Sierra, Nightwatching uses the scenario of a home invasion to explore commonly held fears and how people respond to danger and trauma. By tracing one mother’s quest to defend her home and family, Sierra unearths layers of complexity as the protagonist’s past influences her struggle to protect her children and combat society’s desire to silence her as a woman. As a practicing lawyer, Tracy Sierra has worked with domestic abuse... Read Nightwatching Summary

Nimona is a young adult graphic novel created by N. D. Stevenson and published in 2015 by HarperCollins. It is based on Stevenson’s webcomic, also titled Nimona, which was published in 2012 and earned Slate magazine’s 2012 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year. The graphic novel adaptation also received critical acclaim, earning the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint and becoming a 2015 National Book Award Finalist.Nimona is a... Read Nimona Summary

Nine Perfect Strangers is a 2018 novel by Liane Moriarty. Set in Sydney, Australia, the novel follows a group of strangers who gather at a wellness retreat to receive treatment from a mysterious health guru. The novel was adapted for a 2021 television series starring Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, and Michael Shannon.Other works by this author include Apples Never Fall, What Alice Forgot, and Here One Moment.This guide uses an eBook copy of the text... Read Nine Perfect Strangers Summary

Jewell Parker Rhodes’s Ninth Ward is a realistic middle grade novel that follows 12-year-old Lanesha, a resident of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward neighborhood, in the days surrounding Hurricane Katrina, a devastating storm that hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. Lanesha must rely on her resourcefulness, resilience, and fortitude to survive the storm and subsequent flooding of the Ninth Ward. First published in 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, the book earned a School... Read Ninth Ward Summary

Njal’s Saga is a late medieval Icelandic family saga authored around 1280 but set around the year 1000. It combines legend and history—many of its protagonists were historical figures, and other historical sources corroborate some of the major events the saga mentions. However, the author also embellishes characters and events as he describes them in the saga.The saga recounts intermarriage, friendships, and tragic blood feuds between multiple Icelandic families who trace their ancestry back to... Read Njals Saga Summary

Nobody’s Fool is a 2025 crime thriller by New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben and a sequel to his 2016 novel Fool Me Once, which was adapted into a Netflix series in 2024. Nobody’s Fool picks up one year after the conclusion of Fool Me Once and follows former detective Sami Kierce. While teaching a criminology class, Sami thinks he sees a woman from his past whom he thought he had accidentally killed. Sami... Read Nobody's Fool Summary

No Great Mischief is a 1999 bildungsroman by Canadian novelist Alistair MacLeod. The story begins with Alexander MacDonald, a successful Canadian orthodontist, driving to Toronto to visit his brother, Calum. He searches for his brother’s apartment through the city’s seedier districts and eventually finds the right place. Calum is an alcoholic, one of many people left behind by the modern world. They speak together in English and Gaelic, reminiscing about their family. As Calum becomes... Read No Great Mischief Summary

No Longer At Ease (1960) is a novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. The story takes place in the years prior to Nigeria’s independence from the British Empire and focuses on Obi Okonkwo. Obi is a young Nigerian man who returns home after studying English in Britain and finds a job in the civil service. He finds himself situated within the conflict between African and Western culture, raising questions about his identity and worldview. No... Read No Longer at Ease Summary

Published in 2023, None of This Is True is the 21st novel written by Lisa Jewell, who is a New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers and crime fiction. She originally wrote her debut Ralph’s Party (1999) in response to a friend’s challenge to write three chapters of a novel, the reward for which was an evening out at a fancy restaurant. The book became an immediate best-seller, and since then, her prolific work... Read None of This Is True Summary

Kate Alice Marshall’s No One Can Know (2023) is a tense psychological thriller and murder mystery. Marshall’s second novel for adults, No One Can Know follows Emma Palmer, whose parents were mysteriously shot dead 14 years ago. As a financial crisis forces Emma and her husband, Nathan, to return to her ominous childhood home, Emma reconnects with her estranged sisters, Daphne and JJ, and begins to discover uncomfortable family secrets. Tackling themes like trauma and... Read No One Can Know Summary

Patricia Lockwood published the novel No One Is Talking About This in 2021. Lockwood is a poet known for her short-form poetry posted on Twitter and her memoir Priestdaddy (2017). No One Is Talking About This, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, depicts an unnamed protagonist navigating a life devoted to maintaining an online presence through social media and blog posts. When her sister’s unborn child is diagnosed with Proteus syndrome, the protagonist puts... Read No One is Talking About This Summary

No Place Left to Hide is a young adult novel by American author Megan Lally that follows Brooke Goodwin, a Yale-bound prep school senior. She endures constant anonymous harassment over a tragic accident in her past that resulted in the death of her former friend, Claire Heck. Through dual timelines—one based in the present and one based on the night of the incident six months prior—a mystery plot unfolds that will determine Brooke’s fate. Lally’s... Read No Place Left to Hide Summary

No Promises in the Wind is a young-adult historical novel that takes place at the height of the Great Depression. The first-person narrative tells the coming-of-age story of a 15-year-old boy who leaves home with his younger brother because their family doesn’t have enough to eat. Josh and Joey Grondowski use their musical talents to survive on their own as they travel through a country of angry and impoverished people. First published in 1970, the... Read No Promises In The Wind Summary

Written by Colm Tóibín, Nora Webster (2014) is a historical novel that follows the titular character, a young woman who is struggling to raise her four young children, process her grief, and reinvent her life after her husband passes away. In 2015, the novel won the Hawthornden Prize, and it has also received numerous other prestigious award nominations. Throughout his career, Colm Tóibín has alternated between fiction and non-fiction, producing works such as Brooklyn (2009), which... Read Nora Webster Summary

Northern Spy is a thriller novel detailing the gripping story of two sisters caught on opposing sides of a conflict in Northern Ireland, 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement. Written by American author Flynn Berry, the book was originally published by Viking as part of Penguin Books on April 5, 2021. Northern Spy was chosen for Reese’s Book Club Pick and earned its place as an Instant New York Times Bestseller, as part of... Read Northern Spy Summary