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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
David Crockett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1834

A Nation Under Our Feet
Steven Hahn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Nervous Splendor
Frederic Morton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

A New New Me
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A New Religious America
Diana Eck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Philip Massinger

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1625

A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Nurse's Story
Peter Baida

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Nadja
Andre Breton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Naked in Death
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Names for the Sea
Sarah Moss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Nancy Drew Mystery Series
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

Nantucket Nights
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Narcissus and Goldmund
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Natchez Burning
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Nation
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Native Guard
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Akala

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
William Paley

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1802

Nearly Gone
Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Near the Bone
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Necessary Lies
Eva Stachniak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Necessary Losses
Judith Viorst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Margaret Atwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Negroland
Margo Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson

Nonfiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2013

Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nesting
Roisín O'Donnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Netherland
Joseph O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

NeuroTribes
Steve Silberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Never Ever After
Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Never Fade
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Nevermore
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Never Say Never
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Never Stop Walking
Christina Rickardsson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Never the Roses
Jennifer K. Lambert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Never Thought I'd End up Here
Ann Liang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

New Grub Street
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

News of a Kidnapping
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

New Times
Rehana Rossouw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

New York Days
Willie Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Next
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Next: A Novel
James Hynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Next of Kin: A Memoir
Gabrielle Hamilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Next to Heaven
James Frey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Next to Normal
Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2008

Nice Work
David Lodge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1967

Nietzsche
Peter Berkowitz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Night and Day
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Nightbird
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Night Crossing
Don J. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Nightfall
Anne Stuart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Nightingale
David Farland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Nightmare Mountain
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Night of Miracles
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Night of the Howling Dogs
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Night of the Mannequins
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2020

Night of the Ninjas
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Night Sea Journey: A Tale of the Supernatural
Paula Cappa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Nights in Rodanthe
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Night Swim
Jessica Keener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Night Train
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Night Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko, Transl. Andrew Bromfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Night Watch
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Night Watcher
Daphne Woolsoncroft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Nightwoods
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nine Days
Toni Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief
T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2013

Nine Lives
William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Nine Month Contract
Amy Daws

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born
Miranda Paul

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2019

Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1953

Noah Barleywater Runs Away
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Darnell L. Moore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Nobody's Story
Catherine Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t
Messie Condo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Nobody Will Tell You This but Me
Bess Kalb

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

No Easy Day
Kevin Maurer, Matt Bissonnette

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

No Friend to This House
Natalie Haynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Noggin
John Corey Whaley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

No Good Men Among the Living
Anand Gopal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

No Is Not Enough
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

No Man's Land
Cindy Hahamovitch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

No Matter What
Cara Bastone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

No More Secrets
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

No Name
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1862

Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Nonesuch
Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Non-Violent Resistance
Mahatma Gandhi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2007

No One Ever Asked
Katie Ganshert

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

No One is Coming to Save Us
Stephanie Powell Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017