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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 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

Names for the Sea
Sarah Moss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Nancy Drew Mystery Series
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Nearly Gone
Elle Cosimano

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Necessary Lies
Eva Stachniak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Necessary Losses
Judith Viorst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Negroland
Margo Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Nelson Mandela
Kadir Nelson

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

Netherland
Joseph O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

NeuroTribes
Steve Silberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Nevermore
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Never Stop Walking
Christina Rickardsson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

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: A Novel
James Hynes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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

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 the Howling Dogs
Graham Salisbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

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 Train
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Nightwoods
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nine Days
Toni Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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

Nobody's Story
Catherine Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

No Easy Day
Matt Bissonnette, Kevin Maurer

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

Noises Off
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

No Man's Land
Cindy Hahamovitch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

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 is Coming to Save Us
Stephanie Powell Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Noon Wine
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

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

Nora Webster
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | 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

Nostromo
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

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 Scandal
Zoë Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Not in the Heart
Chris Fabry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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 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

Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children
Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Nutshell: A Novel
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 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 Nanny Diaries
Nicola Kraus, Emma McLaughlin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Natural
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

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

The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Nest
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The New Kids
Brooke Hauser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The New New Thing
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The News about Dinosaurs
Patricia Lauber

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The New Science of Learning
Todd Zakrajsek, Terry Doyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The New Yorkers
Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1972