Books

Nada Jean-Patrick Manchette A cell of 1970s French radicals kidnaps the American ambassador, and discovers the state is happy to let hostages die. 1 recommender Nadja Andre Breton Breton spent ten days with a woman in Paris in 1928 and wrote it up with photographs of the places, inventing surrealist prose and documenting an obsession. 1 recommender Naked Pictures of Famous People Jon Stewart Stewart's pre-fame debut, a set of surreal comic essays imagining famous figures, from Princess Diana to Larry King, in ridiculous private moments. Natives Akala A rapper and writer weaves memoir with history to examine race and class in modern Britain. 1 recommender Natural History Carlos Fonseca Carlos Fonseca's second novel, translated by Megan McDowell, a meditation on art and camouflage. Natural Novel Georgi Gospodinov Gospodinov's debut novel, an experimental story of a young writer in post-communist Bulgaria. Navigational Entanglements Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard's 2024 space opera novella about apprentice navigators sent to catch a creature that has escaped into normal space. 1 recommender Necessary Illusions Noam Chomsky Where a state cannot compel belief it manufactures consent, and a free press turns out to be the most effective instrument. Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales Nelson Mandela The tales Mandela grew up with, gathered from across the continent and retold for a new generation of readers Never Go Back Lee Child Reacher finally visits his old military police unit in Virginia, only to be accused of an old homicide and told he may have a child. Never Name the Dead D.M. Rowell A Silicon Valley founder is summoned home to Kiowa country by a grandfather who knows something. 1 recommender Never Split the Difference Chris Voss, Tahl Raz A former FBI hostage negotiator turns high-stakes tactics into tools anyone can use: tactical empathy, calibrated questions, mirroring. 1 recommender New and Selected Poems Marie Howe Four decades in one volume, from the AIDS elegies through the late poems about ecology and God. The plainness is deceptive, and it holds up read aloud. 1 recommender New Masters of the Baltic Arthur Brown Ruhl A 1921 travel book about the new Baltic states, written before anyone knew how it ended. 1 recommender Next Year in Havana Chanel Cleeton A Cuban-American woman returns to scatter her grandmother's ashes, and uncovers the Havana love story that sent her family into exile. 1 recommender Nexus Yuval Noah Harari Information networks have always chosen order over truth, and Harari asks what happens when they stop needing us in the loop. Nico James Young Touring Europe with Nico in her heroin years, by the keyboard player who was there. 1 recommender Night Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel's spare memoir of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, bearing witness to what he saw as a teenager and the faith it tested. 1 recommender Night People Mark Ronson A teenage DJ learning 1990s New York from behind the decks, before that nightlife was demolished. 1 recommender Nightblind Ragnar Jónasson A murdered policeman tests Ari Thór Arason in Ragnar Jónasson's Dark Iceland series, from Minotaur. Nightcrawling Leila Mottley Leila Mottley's debut follows a seventeen-year-old in East Oakland pulled into sex work and then into a police scandal. 1 recommender Nightingale’s Song Robert Timberg Five Annapolis graduates, including John McCain, and the war that shaped all of them. 1 recommender No Excuses! Brian Tracy Tracy's case that self-discipline is the one habit underneath every other one, applied across work, money and relationships. No Fear Tim Gill An argument that shielding children from every risk leaves them less able to cope, and what to do instead. 1 recommender No god but God Reza Aslan A narrative history of Islam that reads today's turmoil in the Muslim world as a reformation, a fight over who gets to define the faith. No Is Not Enough Naomi Klein Written after the 2016 election, Klein's case that Trump's rise was built on shock politics, and that resistance needs a positive plan of its own. No Logo Naomi Klein Drafted Sep 9 2026. Its only recommender was David Lammy, removed under the owner editorial line; no other person on the site recommends it. Restore by setting post_status back to publish if a future recommendation lands on it. No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel of a troubled man who hides behind a mask of jocularity, a classic of postwar Japanese literature. 1 recommender No More Mr Nice Guy Robert A. Glover Nice Guy Syndrome: men who suppress their needs, seek approval and avoid conflict in the hope of being liked, and end up frustrated instead. 1 recommender No Rules Rules Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer The Netflix playbook from its co-founder and a business scholar: strip away rules, raise talent density and candor, and trust freedom over control. Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t Steven Pressfield Readers owe you nothing. Pressfield explains how to write something they will want to read anyway. 1 recommender Nobody’s Perfect Anthony Lane A decade of New Yorker film criticism by a man who is funniest when the movie is worst. 1 recommender Noise Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein Why two experts given the same facts reach different verdicts, and why that random scatter costs more than bias. Kahneman's follow-up on noisy judgment. Nomadland Jessica Bruder Reporting on older Americans who took to vans and RVs after the Great Recession to chase seasonal work. 1 recommender Nonzero Robert Wright 1 recommender Normal People Sally Rooney The on-and-off relationship between Connell and Marianne, from school in small-town Ireland through university in Dublin. 1 recommender