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Not Without You
Harriet Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Nova
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)
M. John Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

November Cotton Flower
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Novel | Adult

November Road
Lou Berney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Novum Organum
Francis Bacon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1620

Now
Morris Gleitzman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Nowhere Boy
Katherine Marsh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Now in November
Josephine Winslow Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

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 Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Now You See Her
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Now You See Me
Sharon J. Bolton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Nubia: Real One
L.L. McKinney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

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

Numbers (Numbers, #1)
Rachel Ward

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

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

Nutcracker
E.T.A. Hoffmann

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1984

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 Eye (Kendra Michaels, #3)
Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Naked Face
Sidney Sheldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Nameless City (The Nameless City, #1)
Faith Erin Hicks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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
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 2007

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1838

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
William Wells Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Narrowboat Summer
Anne Youngson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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 Natural History of Religion
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Naturalist
Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Natural Way of Things
Charlotte Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Prejudice
Gordon W. Allport

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nature of the Gods
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Nature of Witches
Rachel Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

The Nature Principle
Richard Louv

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nazi Hunter
Alan Elsner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Nazi Officer's Wife
Edith Hahn Beer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Necromancer
Michael Scott

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Need
Helen Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Negotiator
Dee Henderson, Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Negotiator (O'Malley, #1)
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Neighbor
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Neighbor Favor
Kristina Forest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Neighbors
Hannah Mary McKinnon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Neon Lawyer
Victor Methos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Neon Rain
James Lee Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Neptune Project (The Neptune Project, #1)
Polly Holyoke

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Nest
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016