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Nora Webster
Colm Tóibín

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

N or M?
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Normal People
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Norm and Ahmed
Alexander Buzo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2013

Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
David V. Hicks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

North and South (North and South, #1)
John Jakes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Northern Lights
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Northern Spy
Flynn Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

North Of Beautiful
Justina Chen Headley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

North of Boston
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

North of Nowhere (Alex McKnight, #4)
Steve Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)
Andrew Peterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

North River
Pete Hamill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Northwest Corner
John Burnham Schwartz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Northwest Passage
Kenneth Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Northwind
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

North Woods
Daniel Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Norwegian By Night
Derek B. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

NOS4A2
Joe Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

No Safety in Numbers (No Safety in Numbers, #1)
Dayna Lorentz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

No Second Chance
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

No Stone Unturned
Steve Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Nostromo
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

No Sugar
Jack Davis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

No Summit Out Of Sight: The True Story Of The Youngest Person To Climb The Seven Summits
Jordan Romero

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

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 (Not a Drop to Drink, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | 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

Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
Phil Collins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

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 from Underground & The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Notes of a Crocodile
Qiu Miaojin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Short Story | 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 a Silencing: A Memoir
Lacy Crawford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Notes on Democracy
H.L. Mencken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Notes To Self
Emilie Pine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters, #1)
Rebecca Schaeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Not Her Daughter
Rea Frey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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 (Jack Reacher, #12)
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 | YA | Published in 2018

No Time for Goodbye (No Time For Goodbye, #1)
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

No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Problem
Ciara Smyth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

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
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Notre-Dame of Paris
Allan Temko

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

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

Not the End of the World
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Not Without My Sister
Kristina Jones, Celeste Jones, Juliana Buhring

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008