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ALPHABETICAL

The Nether
Jennifer Haley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

The Neverending Story
Michael Ende, Transl. Ralph Manheim

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

The Never Game (Colter Shaw, #1)
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Never King
Nikki St. Crowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Never War
D.J. MacHale, William Dufris

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

The Newcomer
Mary Kay Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The New Couple
Alison James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
Perry Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict
Josh McDowell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The New Girl (Fear Street, #1)
R.L. Stine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The New Kids
Brooke Hauser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The New Life
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Daniel Yergin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The New Me
Halle Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 New One Minute Manager
Spencer Johnson, Ken Blanchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The New Republic
Lionel Shriver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The News about Dinosaurs
Patricia Lauber

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The News: A User's Manual
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The New Science of Learning
Terry Doyle, Todd Zakrajsek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The New Testament
Jericho Brown

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The New Wilderness
Diane Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The New World of Mr Tompkins
George Gamow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The New Yorkers
Cathleen Schine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
George Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Next Always
Nora Roberts, MacLeod Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Next Best Thing
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Next Best Thing (Gideon's Cove, #2)
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Next Great Paulie Fink
Ali Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Next Mrs. Parrish
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Next Thing on My List
Jill Smolinski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Next Wife
Kaira Rouda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nick Adams Stories
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Nicomachean Ethics
Jonathan Barnes, Aristotle, Hugh Tredennick, J.A.K. Thomson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Night Before
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Bird
Brian Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Night Eternal
Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Fire
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Gardener
George Pelecanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Night Guest
Fiona McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Night Hawks
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Night in Lisbon
Erich Maria Remarque, Ralph Manheim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Night in Question
Tobias Wolff

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

The Night Is for Hunting (Tomorrow, #6)
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Night It Ended
Katie Garner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Nightjar (The Nightjar, #1)
Deborah Hewitt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Manager
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Nightmare
Laura A. Wideburg, Lars Kepler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Night Masquerade
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Night of the Hunter
Davis Grubb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Night of Wenceslas
Lionel Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Night Olivia Fell
Christina McDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Portrait
Laura Morelli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night She Disappeared
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Night Shift
Alex Finlay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Night Sister
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Night Stalker
Robert Bryndza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Night Strangers
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
Megan Goldin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night the Bed Fell
James Thurber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1933

The Night the Gods Smiled (Charlie Salter, #1)
Eric Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Night the Lights Went Out
Karen White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

The Night Tiger
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Night Wanderer
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Night Watch
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Night We Lost Him
Laura Dave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor
Sally Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Nine Lives of Christmas
Sheila Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Nineties: A Book
Chuck Klosterman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Jensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Nix
Nathan Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Noel Diary (The Noel Collection, #1)
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Noh Mask Murder
Akimitsu Takagi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Noise of Time
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Nonexistent Knight
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The Noonday Friends
Mary Stolz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me (two plays)
Larry Kramer

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000