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Noite na Taverna
Noite na Taverna (A Night in the Tavern) is an 1855 book of interlinked macabre tales by the Brazilian Romantic poet Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo, published after his death.
Noli Me Tángere (novel)
Noli Me Tángere ("touch me not") is José Rizal's 1887 Spanish-language novel of Crisóstomo Ibarra and friar abuse in the colonial Philippines, published in Berlin, banned in 1887, followed by El filibusterismo and required reading under RA 1425.
Nome King
Nome King, also Roquat the Red and later Ruggedo, is the underground ruler of the Nomes and the recurring main villain of L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first appearing in Ozma of Oz (1907), wielding the Magic Belt, fearing eggs, and repeatedly defeated by Dorothy, Ozma, and the Water of Oblivion.
Non-fiction
Non-fiction: literature and media conveying information only about the real world; also nonfiction. Ranges from reference works to creative nonfiction, which applies fiction techniques to true stories; distinct from fiction by its factual claim.
None of This Is True
None of This Is True is a 2023 psychological thriller by Lisa Jewell about podcaster Alix Summer and her unsettling "birthday twin" Josie Fair; an instant NYT bestseller with a Netflix film adaptation in development.
Nonlinear narrative
Nonlinear narrative, also called non-chronological or fractured storytelling, presents events out of chronological order via flashbacks, parallel timelines, or reverse order, separating story time from discourse order across literature, film, and games.
Nonsense verse
Nonsense verse is whimsical light verse, usually for children, using made-up words, strict rhyme, and rhythm over meaning. Founded modernly by Edward Lear (Book of Nonsense, 1846) and Lewis Carroll, with roots in nursery rhymes and older traditions.
Noon Universe (Мир Полудня")
Noon Universe (Мир Полудня) is a science fiction cycle by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Set in the 22nd century, it depicts an optimistic future history of Earth.
Nordic Baroque literature
Nordic Baroque literature is the emotionally charged, ornate, image-rich Baroque-style writing produced in Denmark, Norway, Sweden including Finland, and Iceland from about 1600 to 1720, when Enlightenment currents took over.
Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize
The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize is an annual Nordic literary award, established in 2012, for children's and young people's fiction written in a Nordic language.
Normal People
Normal People is Sally Rooney's 2018 Faber novel about Connell and Marianne, Sligo teenagers whose relationship continues at Trinity College Dublin. It won the 2018 Costa Novel Award, was Booker-longlisted, and became a 2020 BBC/Hulu series.
Norn9
Norn9 (Norn9: Var Commons) is an Idea Factory/Otomate otome visual novel series set on a floating airship in Taisho-era Japan, with three heroines, nine romance routes, a 2015 Vita English release, a 2023 Switch port, and the Last Era fan disc.
North and South (Gaskell novel)
North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell's 1854 condition-of-England novel in which Margaret Hale moves from southern Helstone to the industrial town of Milton, meets mill-owner John Thornton and worker Nicholas Higgins, and mediates a strike.
North of Boston
North of Boston is the second poetry collection by the American poet Robert Frost, published in London in 1914 and establishing him as a major modern poet.
North Woods (novel)
North Woods is Daniel Mason's 2023 Random House novel of linked stories following one house in western Massachusetts across centuries, a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten 2023 book and NBCC finalist.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is a novel by Jane Austen that satirizes Gothic fiction through Catherine Morland, a young reader of Gothic novels; written about 1798, it was published posthumously in 1817.
Norwegian folk tales
Norwegian folk tales, or Norske folkeeventyr, are Norway's orally transmitted wonder tales and legends, best known through the collection Asbjørnsen and Moe published from 1841.
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森) (novel)
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森) is Haruki Murakami's 1987 two-volume Kodansha novel about Watanabe, Naoko, and Midori; a 4.3-million-copy bestseller translated into 36 languages and filmed by Tran Anh Hung in 2010.
NOS4A2
NOS4A2 is a 2013 horror novel by American writer Joe Hill, in which the villain Charlie Manx drives children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith to Christmasland; it was a Bram Stoker Award nominee.
Nostalgia de la muerte
Nostalgia de la muerte is a 1938 book of poems by the Mexican writer Xavier Villaurrutia, his second poetry collection and the central work of his output.
Nostromo
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel set in fictional Costaguana, where the San Tome silver mine and a stolen treasure drive Sulaco's secession; also the Alien ship Nostromo.
Not by Bread Alone
Not by Bread Alone (Не хлебом единым) is a 1956 novel by Vladimir Dudintsev, serialized in Novy Mir, about a lone inventor fighting bureaucratic obstruction.
Not Quite Dead Yet
Not Quite Dead Yet (2025) is Holly Jackson's first adult mystery thriller: Jet Mason, fatally injured on Halloween, has seven days to solve her own murder. #1 NYT bestseller, GMA Book Club pick.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Cahier d'un retour au pays natal) is a 1939 long poem by Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, a founding text of Négritude.
Notes from Underground (Записки из подполья)
Notes from Underground (Записки из подполья), Dostoevsky's 1864 two-part novella from the journal Epokha: an unnamed Petersburg retired civil servant attacks rational egoism and Chernyshevsky, and his Liza episode anticipates existentialism.
Notes of a Crocodile
Notes of a Crocodile (鱷魚手記) is a 1994 novel by the Taiwanese writer Qiu Miaojin about a lesbian university student in late-1980s Taipei; its protagonist's nickname, Lazi, became a Chinese word for lesbian.
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son is a 1955 collection of essays by James Baldwin, his first nonfiction book, examining race in America and Europe, published by Beacon Press.
Notes on the Cuff
Notes on the Cuff (Записки на манжетах) is a partially autobiographical novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, written from 1921 to 1923 about his life in Vladikavkaz and Moscow.
Notes on Three Family Villages
Notes on Three Family Villages (三家村札记), a zawen essay column in the Beijing party journal Frontline, October 1961 to July 1964, by Deng Tuo, Wu Han, and Liao Mosha under the pen name Wu Nanxing; denounced by Yao Wenyuan in May 1966, opening the Cultural Revolution's attack on Beijing's leadership.
Nothing but the Night (novel)
Nothing but the Night, John Williams's 1948 debut novel from Alan Swallow, follows Arthur Maxley through one day of drinking and trauma; Williams disowned it, and NYRB reissued it in 2019.