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Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
Dan Baum

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 Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Nine Princes in Amber
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1986

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers, #1)
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1953

Nine Tomorrows
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Nine Women, One Dress
Jane L. Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
Herman Lehmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ninth Key
Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Mary Gabriel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Ninth Ward
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Marjorie Shostak

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Nisei Daughter
Monica Sone

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1979

N is for Noose (Kinsey Millhone, #14)
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Njals Saga
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1280

Noah Barleywater Runs Away
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

No and Me
Delphine de Vigan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

No Angel (The Spoils of Time, #1)
Penny Vincenzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Darnell L. Moore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard C. Schwartz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Noble Beginnings
L.T. Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Nobody
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Nobody Is Ever Missing
Catherine Lacey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Nobody's Baby But Mine
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Nobody's Boy
Hector Malot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Nobody's Story
Catherine Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #18)
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
Susan Kuklin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2008

No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
Kate Bowler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
Buzz Aldrin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

No Easy Day
Kevin Maurer, Matt Bissonnette

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

No Easy Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

No Enemy But Time
Michael Bishop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
Nury Turkel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

No Fixed Address
Susin Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
Behrouz Boochani

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Noggin
John Corey Whaley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)
Cadwell Turnbull

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
Sarah MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

No Good Men Among the Living
Anand Gopal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

No Greater Love
Levi Benkert, Candy Chand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

No Great Mischief
Alistair MacLeod

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

No Humans Involved
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Colin Beavan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Noises Off
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not)
José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

No Logo
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

No Man's Land
Cindy Hahamovitch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

No Man's Land (Pinter: Plays)
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

No Matter How Loud I Shout
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

No More Dead Dogs
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

No More Mr. Nice Guy
Dr. Robert A. Glover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

None Dare Call It Conspiracy
Gary Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

None of This Is True: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

No-No Boy
John Okada

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing by Jamie Holmes (2016-10-11)
unknown author

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1816

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Noonday (Life Class, #3)
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2007

No One Can Know: A Novel
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

No One Ever Asked
Katie Ganshert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

No One Gets Out Alive
Adam Nevill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

No One Here Gets Out Alive
Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

No One is Coming to Save Us
Stephanie Powell Watts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

No One is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

No One Rides For Free: An Extreme Novella
Judith Sonnet

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2020

No One Writes To The Colonel
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1961

No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2005

Noon Wine
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

No Ordinary Billionaire
J.S. Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

No Ordinary Time
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

No Place Like Home
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

No Place Like Rome
Julie Moffett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

No Place to Hide
Glenn Greenwald

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

NO PLAN B
Lee Child and Andrew Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)
Lee Child, Andrew Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

No Pretty Pictures
Anita Lobel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1998

No Promises In The Wind
Irene Hunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

Nora Goes Off Script
Annabel Monaghan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022