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A Nail Through the Heart (2007) - Timothy Hallinan (1942-)  (Grade:B)

The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)  (Grade:D)

The Name of the Rose [Il nome della rosa] (1980) - Umberto Eco (1932 -)  (Grade:B+)

Napalm & Silly Putty (2001) - George Carlin (1937-)  (Grade:C)

Narcissus Leaves the Pool : Familiar Essays (1999) - Joseph Epstein (01/09/1937 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) - Edgar Allan Poe (01/19/1809 -10/07/1849)  (Grade:A-)

A Nation of Strangers (1972) - Vance Packard (1914-1996)  (Grade:A)

A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat (2003) - Zell Miller (02/24/1932-)  (Grade:A)

Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-)  (Grade:A-)

Native Angels: A Peter Boone Novel (1995) - William Jaspersohn (1947-)  (Grade:B)

Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright (9/04/1908 -11/28/1960)  (Grade:C+)

The Natural (1952) - Bernard Malamud (04/26/1914 -03/18/1986)  (Grade:A)

Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future (2004) - Daniel Altman (-)  (Grade:B-)

Events are in the Saddle and They Ride the Neocons (2002) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F)

The Neon Rain (1987) - James Lee Burke (12/05/1936-)  (Grade:A-)

Neuromancer (1984) - William Gibson (1948-)  (Grade:C+)

Never Let Me Go (2005) - Kazuo Ishiguro (11/08/1954 -)  (Grade:A)

Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill (2003) - Michael Dobbs (11/14/1948-)  (Grade:C)

Neverwhere (1997) - Neil Gaiman (11/10/1960 -)  (Grade:B+)

The New Brain (2003) - Richard M. Restak (-)  (Grade:B)

The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II (2001) - Thomas Fleming (-) (Grade:A+)

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism (1999) - Simon Reeve (-) (Grade:B+)

A New Kind of Science (2002) - Stephen Wolfram (1959-)  (Grade:A+)

The New New Left : How American Politics Works Today (2005) - Steven Malanga (-)  (Grade:B+)

The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (2001) - Tammy Bruce (-)  (Grade:B)

Nickel and Dimed : On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) - Barbara Ehrenreich (8/26/1941 -9/01/2022)  (Grade:C)

Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985) - Alexander Nehamas (03/22/1946-)  (Grade:A-)

Night (1958) - Elie Wiesel (1928-)  (Grade:A)

The Night Crew (1997) - John Sandford (-)  (Grade:C+)

Night of the Hunter (1953) - Davis Grubb (1919-1980)  (Grade:A)

In the Night of Time (2009) - Antonio Munoz Molina (01/10/1956-)  (Grade:C)

Night Train (1997) - Martin Amis (8/25/1949 -5/19/2023)  (Grade:D)

Night Watch: A Novel [Nochnoi Dozor] (1998) - Andrew Bromfeld (-) - Sergei Lukyanenko (04/11/1968-)  (Grade:A)

The Nightingale's Song (1995) - Robert Timberg (-)  (Grade:B-)

Nightmare in Pink (1964) - John D. MacDonald (7/24/1916 -12/28/1986)  (Grade:C+)

Nightwing (1977) - Martin Cruz Smith (-)  (Grade:C+)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) - Rick Perlstein (9/03/1969 -)  (Grade:B-)

No Country for Old Men (2005) - Cormac McCarthy (07/20/1933 -06/13/2023)  (Grade:A)

No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005) - Reza Aslan (1972-)  (Grade:A)

No Longer at Ease (1960) - Chinua Achebe (11/16/1930 -3/21/2013)  (Grade:A)

No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (2000) - Christopher Hitchens (4/13/1949 -12/15/2011)  (Grade:B)

No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II (1994) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (1/04/1943 -)  (Grade:C+)

A Noble Radiance (1998) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)  (Grade:A+)

Nobody's Fool (1994) - Richard Russo (-)  (Grade:B)

North Dallas Forty (1973) - Peter Gent (-)  (Grade:A)

Norwegian Wood (1987) - Haruki Murakami (01/12/1949 -)  (Grade:B)

Norwood (1966) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:B+)

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) - Joseph Conrad (12/03/1857 -8/03/1924)  (Grade:D+)

Not in Front of the Children : Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth (2001) - Marjorie Heins (-)  (Grade:D)

Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (1996) - Mary Lefkowitz (04/30/1935 -)  (Grade:A)

The Notebook (1996) - Nicholas Sparks (1965-)  (Grade:D)

Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)  (Grade:D)

Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821 -02/09/1881)  (Grade:A)

Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present (2010) - George C. Szpiro (-)  (Grade:B)