Authors N - Annotated List

Nabokov, Vladimir 

Ada or Ardor

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Nabokov, Vladimir 

Lolita

BBC Big Read 178 

Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time 

Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 54 

Amazon UK 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English 

Amazon US 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime 

Norwegian Book Club World Library 

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Board’s List 4 

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List 34 

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe List 11 

The Novel 100 47 

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 

Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without 62

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 7

Waterstones Books of the Century 31

All-TIME 100 Novels

National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1959

Nabokov, Vladimir
Look at the Harlequins!
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1975

Nabokov, Vladimir 

Pale Fire

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Board’s List 53 

The Novel 100 95 

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Harvard Book Store Top 100 Books 64

All-TIME 100 Novels

National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1963

Nabokov, Vladimir 

Pnin

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy 

Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Comedy - Best of the Rest 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1958

Nabokov, Vladimir
The Defense
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1965

Nabokov, Vladimir
Transparent Things
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1973

Nabokov, Vladimir
Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1976

Nádas, Peter

A Lovely Tale of Photography

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001

Nádas, Peter

Own Death

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008

Nadel, Barbara

Deadly Web

Silver Dagger 2005

Nadzam, Bonnie 

Lamb

Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2013 

Naess, Atle

Doubting Thomas

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002

Nagra, Daljit

Look We Have Coming to Dover!

Costa Poetry Award 2007

Guardian First Book Award Longlist 2007

Nahai, Gina Barkhordar 

Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith

Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2000 

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001

Nahai, Gina Barkhordar

The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016

Nai'an, Shi

Guanzhong, Luo

The Water Margin

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Naipaul, Shiva 

Fireflies

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Comedy 

Lost Man Booker Prize 1970 (awarded 2010) Longlist 

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1971

Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize 1970

Naipaul, Shiva

The Chip Chip Gatherers

Whitbread Novel Award 1973

Naipaul, VS 

A Bend in the River

Guardian 100 Greatest Novels of all Time

Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 67 

Guardian 100 Best Novels Written in English 

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Board’s List 83 

The Novel 100 118 

Booker-McConnell Prize Shortlist 1979 

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation 

Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books – African Classics 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Naipaul, VS 

A House for Mr Biswas

Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Board’s List 72 

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Family and Self 

All-TIME 100 Novels

Naipaul, VS

A Way in the World

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1996

Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book - Canada and the Caribbean Regional Winner 1995

Naipaul, VS 

Half a Life

Booker-McConnell Prize Longlist 2001 

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003

Naipaul, VS 

In a Free State

Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1971 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Naipaul, VS

India

Travel Writer of the Year - British Book Awards 1991

Naipaul, VS

Magic Seeds

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006

Naipaul, VS

Miguel Street

Somerset Maugham Award 1961

Naipaul, VS

Mr Stone and the Knights Companion

Hawthornden Prize 1964

Naipaul, VS

The Enigma of Arrival

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Naipaul, VS

The Mystic Masseur

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1958

Naipaul, VS

The Suffrage of Elvira

RSL Nation’s Favourite Second Novel Voting List

Nair, Anita 

Mistress

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Longlist 2008 

Naqvi, HM

Home Boy

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011

Narayan, RK

The Guide

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Narayan, RK 

The Painter of Signs

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 

Narayan, RK 

Waiting for the Mahatma

Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 74 

Nashe, Thomas

The Unfortunate Traveller

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Naslund, Sena Jeter 

Ahab’s Wife or The Star-Gazer

Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2001 

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001

Nason, Riel

The Town that Drowned

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013

Commonwealth Book Prize - Canada and Europe Regional Winner 2012

Nasrallah, Dimitri

Niko

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013

Nassar, Raduan

A Cup of Rage

Man Booker International Longlist 2016

Natsume, Soseki

Kokoro

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Naughton, Sarah

The Hanged Man Rises

Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist 2013

Nazer, Mende

Lewis, Damien

Slave

Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2004

NDiaye, Marie

Ladivine

Man Booker International Longlist 2016

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018

NDiaye, Marie

Three Strong Women

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2014

Neale, Emma

Billy Bird

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018

Neate, Patrick

Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko

Betty Trask Award 2001

Neate, Patrick

Twelve Bar Blues

Whitbread Novel Award 2001

Neath, Glen

The Outgoing Man

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2006/2007

Neel, Janet

Death Among the Dons

Gold Dagger Shortlist 1993

Neel, Janet

Death of a Partner

Gold Dagger Shortlist 1991

Neel, Janet

Death's Bright Angel

John Creasy New Blood Dagger 1988

Neil, Barbara 

A History of Silence

Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 1999 

Neill, Fiona

The Betrayals

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Autumn 2017

Nelder, Geoff

Escaping Reality

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2005/2006

Nelson, Antonya

Living to Tell

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2002

Nelson, Jandy

I'll Give You The Sun

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 13 April 2015

Nelson, Maggie

The Argonauts

Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlist 2017

Némirovsky, Irène 

Suite Francaise

Telegraph 100 Novels Everyone Should Read 31 

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Neruda, Pablo 

Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair

Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Poetry - Best of the Rest 

Nesbit, Edith

The Railway Children

The Perfect Library: 110 Best books by the Telegraph

Nesbø, Jo

Phantom

International Dagger Shortlist 2012

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014

Nesbø, Jo

The Redbreast

International Dagger Shortlist 2007

Nesbø, Jo

The Redeemer

International Dagger Shortlist 2009

Nesbø, Jo

The Snowman

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Winter 2010

Nesbø, Jo

The Son

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 07 April 2014

Nesbø, Jo

The Thirst

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Spring 2018

Ness, Patrick

A Monster Calls

Children's Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2011

Ness, Patrick

More Than This

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 16 September 2013

Ness, Patrick

The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking, Book Two

Costa Children's Book Award 2009

Nesser, Håkan

Borkmann's Point

International Dagger Shortlist 2006

Neubert, Candy

Foreign Bodies

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2010/2011

Neugeboren, Jay

1940

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010

Neuhaus, Nele

Snow White Must Die

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Autumn 2013

Neuman, Andrés

Talking to Ourselves

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016

Neuman, Andrés

Traveller of the Century

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2014

Neville, Stuart

Ratlines

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Shortlist 2013

Neville, Stuart

Stolen Souls

Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Shortlist 2013

Neville, Stuart

The Final Silence

Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2016

Neville, Stuart

Those We Left Behind

Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Longlist 2017

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Summer 2016

Newbery, Linda

Quarter Past Two On A Wednesday Afternoon

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 26 August 2014

Newbery, Linda

Set in Stone

Costa Children's Book Award 2006

Newby, PH

Journey to the Interior

Somerset Maugham Award 1948

Newby, PH 

Something to Answer For

Booker-McConnell Prize Winner 1969 

Newland, Courttia

The Scholar

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999

Newman, Robert

Dependence Day

Betty Trask Award 1995

Newman, Sandra 

The Country of Ice Cream Star

Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2015 

Newman, Sandra

The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done

Guardian First Book Award Shortlist 2002

Newsome, David

On the Edge of Paradise: AC Benson the Diarist

Whitbread Biography Award 1980

Newton, Charlie

Calumet City

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Shortlist 2009

Newton, William

The Two Pound Tram

Waverton Good Read Shortlist 2004/2005

Ng, Celeste

Everything I Never Told You

John Creasy New Blood Dagger Shortlist 2015

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

The Sympathizer

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2016

International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 2017

Ní Dhuibhne, Éilís 

The Dancers Dancing

Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2000

Nicol, James

The Apprentice Witch

Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2016/2017

Nichol, James W

Midnight Cab

Gold Dagger Shortlist 2004

Nicholas, Denise

Freshwater Road

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007

Nicholl, Charles

Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa

Hawthornden Prize 1998

Nicholl, Charles

The Reckoning

Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 1992

Nicholls, David

One Day

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Shortlist 2010

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011

TES Teachers' Top 100 Books 38

Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2010

Popular Fiction Book of the Year - Galaxy National Book Awards 2010

Nicholls, David

Starter for Ten

Richard & Judy Book Club 2004

Nicholls, David 

Us

Man Booker Prize Longlist 2014 

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Summer 2015

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 06 October 2014

Nicholls, Henry

Lonesome George: The Lives and Loves of a Conservation Icon

Guardian First Book Award Longlist 2006

Nicholls, Sally

An Island of Our Own

Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist 2015

Nichols, Peter

Voyage to the North Star

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2001

Nicholson, Anthea

The Banner of the Passing Clouds

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2013/2014

Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2014

Nicholson, Christopher

The Elephant Keeper

Costa Novel Award Shortlist 2009

Nicholson, Geoff

Bleeding London

Whitbread Novel Award Shortlist 1997

Nicholson, William

The Society of Others

Waverton Good Read Longlist 2004/2005

Nicolson, Adam

Frontiers

Somerset Maugham Award 1986

Nicolson, Adam

Sissinghurst: an Unfinished History

Ondaatje Prize 2009

Nicolson, Nigel

Mary Curzon

Whitbread Biography Award 1977

Niffenegger, Audrey

Her Fearful Symmetry

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011

Niffenegger, Audrey 

The Time Traveler's Wife

Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist 2004 

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy 

Guardian 100 Books You Can't Live Without 19

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2005

TES Teachers' Top 100 Books 13

Richard & Judy Book Club 2005

Popular Fiction Award - British Book Awards 2006

Niffoi, Salvatore

The Legend of Redenta Tiria

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2010

Nightingale, Steven

The Thirteenth Daughter of the Moon

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999

Nikolaidis, Andrej

Till Kingdom Come

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017

Nimako, Annor

Mutilated

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003

Nin, Anais 

Delta of Venus

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Ninh, Bao 

The Sorrow of War

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - War and Travel 

Nissenson, Hugh
The Tree of Life
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1985

Niven, David 

The Moon's a Balloon

Telegraph 500 Must-Read Books - Lives 

Niven, John

Kill Your Friends

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2008/2009

Desmond Elliott Longlist 2008

Niven, John

Straight White Male

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Shortlist 2014

Niven, John

The Second Coming

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013

Niven, Larry 

Ringworld

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy 

Nixon, Carl

Rocking Horse Road

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009

Nixon, Carl

Settler’s Creek

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012

Njoku, Jude

The Quick Sands

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007

Njoroge, Mwaura

Just One More Chance

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1999

Noble, Elizabeth

Between a Mother and her Child

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Autumn 2012

Nobbs, David

Cupid's Dart

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Shortlist 2007

Noble, Jeremy

Villa Eilenroc

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2016/2017

Nokes, David

The Nightingale Papers

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2007

Nolan, Christopher

Under the Eye of the Clock

Whitbread Book of the year 1987

Whitbread Biography Award 1987

Nonhebel, Clare

Cold Showers

Betty Trask Award 1984

Noon, Jeff 

Vurt

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Science Fiction and Fantasy 

Noone, John

The Man with the Chocolate Egg

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1967

Noor, Roslan Mohd

21 Immortals

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2012

Noor, Roslan Mohd

Duke

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2013

Noort, Saskia

The Dinner Club

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009

Nooteboom, Cees 

All Souls Day

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - Love 

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003

Nooteboom, Cees

Lost Paradise

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2009

Nooteboom, Cees

Rituals

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Nooteboom, Cees

The Following Story

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1996

Norbury, Katharine

The Fish Ladder

Guardian First Book Award Longlist 2015

Nordan, Lewis

Wolf Whistle

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996

Norfolk, Lawrence

Lempriere’s Dictionary

Somerset Maugham Award 1992

Norfolk, Lawrence

The Pope’s Rhinocerous

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlist 1998

Norman, Charity

After the Fall

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Spring 2013

Norman, Charity

The New Woman

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 27 July 2015

Norman, Howard

The Bird Artist

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1996
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1994

Norman, Howard
The Northern Lights
National Book Award for Fiction Finalist 1987

Norris, Barney

Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

Betty Trask Award 2017

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2016/2017

Debut Book of the Year Shortlist - British Book Awards 2017

Authors' Club Best First Novel Shortlist 2017

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018

Norris, Frank 

McTeague

Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - State of the Nation 

Norriss, Andrew

Aquila

Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award 1997

Norriss, Andrew

Jessica's Ghost

Costa Children's Book Award Shortlist 2015

Nors, Dorthe

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Man Booker International Shortlist 2017

North, Claire

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Autumn 2014

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 22 April 2014

North, Sam

The Automatic Man

Somerset Maugham Award 1990

North, Sam 

The Unnumbered

Man Booker Prize Longlist 2004 

Northfield, Gary

Julius Zebra: Rumble with the Romans!

Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2015/2016

Norton, Graham

Holding

Waverton Good Read Nomination 2017/2018

Authors' Club Best First Novel Longlist 2017

BBC Radio 2 Book Club - 28 November 2016

Norton, Jeff

Metawars - Fight for the Future

Waverton Good Read Children's Award Entry 2012/2013

Nothomb, Amelie

Fear and Trembling

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2003

Nothomb, Amelie

Life Form

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2015

Nothomb, Amelie

The Book of Proper Names

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2006

Nothomb, Amelie

The Life of Hunger

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2008

Novalis

Henry Von Ofterdingen (unfinished)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 2008, 2010, 2012 editions

Novic, Sara 

Girl at War

Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist 2016 

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017

Novik, Naomi

Uprooted

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2017

Nugent, Liz

Lying in Wait

WH Smiths Richard & Judy Book Club Spring 2017

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2018

Nugent, Liz

Unravelling Oliver

International Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2016

Nunez, Elizabet

Anna In-Between

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2011

Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia

I Do Not Come to You by Chance

Betty Trask Award 2010

Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book - Africa Regional Winner 2010

Nwokedi, David

Fitzgerald's Wood

Waverton Good Read Longlist 2005/2006

Nyaya, Kekelwa

Hearthstones

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlist 1997

Nye, Robert

Falstaff

Hawthornden Prize 1976

Guardian Fiction Prize 1976