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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 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 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

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 More Secrets

Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

None to Accompany Me

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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

North Of Beautiful

Justina Chen Headley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Norwegian By Night

Derek B. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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

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 Being a Man

Scott Galloway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Notes on Infinity

Austin Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Nothing

Janne Teller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

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

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 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 That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2018

No Turning Point

Theodore Corbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Nutshell: A Novel

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Obasan

Joy Kogawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1859

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

Rachel Simmons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Odds Against

Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Off the Deep End: A Thriller

Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Of Love and Shadows

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Of Nightingales That Weep

Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Of Poseidon

Anna Banks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Of Sound Mind

Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Oh, Beautiful

John Paul Godges

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oil!

Upton Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Allan Gurganus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Old Filth

Jane Gardam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Oleanna

David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Omon Ra

Victor Pelevin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Omoo

Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

On a Pale Horse

Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

On Black Sisters Street

Chika Unigwe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

On Borrowed Time

Lawrence Edward Watkin

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

On Canaan's Side

Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Marigold

Jean Ferris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Once Upon a Quinceanera

Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Once Upon a River

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Once Upon a Time in Dollywood

Ashley Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored

Clifton L. Taulbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

On China

Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

On Competition

Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

One-Bedroom Solo

Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One Child

Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

One Day I Will Write About This Place

Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

One Fat Summer

Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

One For The Money

Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One Good Dog

Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

One Good Thing

Georgia Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One Good Turn

Carla Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

One Life: My Mother's Story

Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

One Minute to Midnight

Nico Rosso

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

One of Us

Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

One Shot at Forever

Chris Ballard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

Robert Maurer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

One True Thing

Anna Quindlen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

One-Way

Didier Van Cauwelaert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

One Way Witch

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

One With You

Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016