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Nightwoods
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nightwork
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Nim's Island
Wendy Orr

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

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 Lives
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Nineteen Steps
Millie Bob Brown, Kathleen Mcgurl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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 Brainer (diary of a Wimpy Kid, #18)
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
Kate Bowler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

No Easy Day
Kevin Maurer, Matt Bissonnette

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Mr. Nice Guy
Dr. Robert A. Glover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

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

None Shall Sleep
Ellie Marney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
Sophie Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Noon Wine
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Noor
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

No Place Like Rome
Julie Moffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

No Place to Hide
Glenn Greenwald

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

No Plan B (jack Reacher, #27)
Lee Child, Andrew Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

North Of Beautiful
Justina Chen Headley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Norwegian By Night
Derek B. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Nory Ryan's Song
Patricia Reilly Giff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

No Stone Unturned
Steve Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

No Survivors
Tom Cain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
Ama Ata Aidoo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Not Another Love Song
Julie Soto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Notes from No Man's Land
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Notes on a Scandal
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Notes on Infinity
Austin Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Not Even Bones
Rebecca Schaeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Nothing
Janne Teller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Nothing but Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2021

Nothing Ever Dies
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ron Rash

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2012

Nothing Like it in the World
Stephen Ambrose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Nothing More Dangerous
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nothing Tastes as Good
Luke Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Nothing Ventured
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Not If I Save You First
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

No Time Like the Future
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Not in the Heart
Chris Fabry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
E. Jean Carroll

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Not on Our Watch
John Prendergast

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Notorious
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Not Safe for Work
Nisha J. Tuli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Not so Perfect Strangers
L.S. Stratton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2018

Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

No Turning Point
Theodore Corbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Nowhere Burning
Catriona Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Nowhere for Very Long
Brianna Madia

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Now I Surrender
Álvaro Enrigue, Transl. Natasha Wimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children
Ashley Merryman, Po Bronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Name of the Game Was Murder
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Names
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Nanny
Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Nanny Diaries
Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1850

The Natural
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Natural Way of Things
Charlotte Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Florence Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Nature of the Gods
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 46

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Jack El-Hai

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Nazi Conspiracy
Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Nazi Officer's Wife
Edith Hahn Beer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Need
Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019