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The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nature Principle
Richard Louv

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nazi Hunters
Neal Bascomb

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2013

The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1884

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1926

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Neverending Story
Transl. Ralph Manheim, Michael Ende

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1883

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The New Couple in 5B
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The New Dress
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts
Mary Claire Haver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The New One Minute Manager
Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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 Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Night Came Slowly
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1895

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Night Gardener
Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1888

The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Night She Disappeared
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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 the Ghost Got In
James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

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

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 Watchman
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Nine Billion Names of God
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1967

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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 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 No-Guitar Blues
Gary Soto

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1990

The Nonexistent Knight
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

The Nose
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1836

The Nose
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1916

The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1910

The Notorious Benedict Arnold
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2010

The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
E.E. Evans-Pritchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Judith Rich Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998