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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 a Drop to Drink

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Not a Happy Family
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Talking
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Not an Easy Win
Chrystal D. Giles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

No Telephone to Heaven
Michelle Cliff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Notes From A Small Island
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Notes from No Man's Land
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

Notes From The Midnight Driver
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1864

Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Notes on a Nervous Planet
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Notes on an Execution
Danya Kukafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Notes on a Scandal
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Notes on Nursing
Florence Nightingale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1860

Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1785

Not Here to Be Liked
Michelle Quach

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Nothing
Janne Teller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | 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 Lasts Forever
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Nothing Like it in the World
Stephen Ambrose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Nothing More to Tell
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Nothing to Envy
Barbara Demick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Nothing to Lose
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Nothing Ventured
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Not If I Save You First
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

No Time for Goodbye
Linwood Barclay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Michael J. Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Not in the Heart
Chris Fabry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Not My Daughter
Barbara Delinsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Not My Father's Son
Alan Cumming

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Not My Romeo
Ilsa Madden-Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Not on Our Watch
John Prendergast

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Notorious Nineteen
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Not Pretending Anymore
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Not Quite Dating
Catherine Bybee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Not So Pure and Simple
Lamar Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2018

Not That I Could Tell
Jessica Strawser

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Dunham, Joana Avillez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

No Turning Point
Theodore Corbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Not Without My Daughter
Betty Mahmoody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

No Two Persons: A Novel
Erica Bauermeister

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Noughts And Crosses
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Novel Without a Name
Thu Huong Duong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

November 9
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

November Blues
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Novum Organum
Francis Bacon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1620

Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths
Marcus Buckingham

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Nowhere Boy
Katherine Marsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Now I Rise
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Kevin Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Now is the Time for Running
Michael Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Now That You Mention It
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Now You See Me
Sharon J. Bolton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Number9Dream
David Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Numbering all the Bones
Ann Rinaldi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Numbers
Rachel Ward

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Numbers: Book 1
Rachel Ward

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Number the Stars
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

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

NW
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

NYPD Red
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

NYPD Red 2
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

NYPD Red 3
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Nyxia
Scott Reintgen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Naked And The Dead
Norman Mailer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Naked Face
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Name of the Game Was Murder
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Name of This Book Is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Name of War
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Naming
Alison Croggon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Nanny Diaries
Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Narrows
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Natural
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Naturalist
Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaïdes

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Nature of Fragile Things
Susan Meissner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015