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Historical romance, most of it Regency, is Nicole Jordan's field. Jordan, born Anne Bushyhead in 1954, has reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, been a finalist for the RITA Award, and won the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence for best historical. Three series divide the work: Courtship Wars, Notorious and Rocky Mountain Brides. Thirty-two books run from Velvet Embrace (1987) to My Fair Lover in 2017, at a median of 400 pages.

Nicole Pyland organises her catalogue by world rather than by character: Sports, Celebrities, Tahoe, Boston, Royalty, Start-up and the Fire Universe each collect their own contemporary romances. Seventy-five books span 2017 to 2026, from All the Love Songs and Fresh Start (2017) to Celebrity Double Date (2026), and Pyland publishes several titles a year.

Nicole Snow writes contemporary romance, much of it around motorcycle clubs and small towns: the Prairie Devils MC, the Grizzlies MC, the Deadly Pistols MC, the Heroes of Heart's Edge, the Enguard Protectors, Bad Chicago Bosses, the Knights of Dallas and the Marriage Mistake. Seventy-four catalogued books run from Love Scars and Outlaw's Kiss (2014) to Almost Perfect (2026), at a median length of 344 pages.

Nicole Trope writes domestic suspense set in Australia, about families, missing children and violent crime. Thirty-one catalogued books run from The Boy Under the Table (2012) through Hush, Little Bird (2015), Blame (2016) and The Boy in the Photo (2019) to The Toxic Friend in 2026. Grace Dixon is her one series.

Nigel Slater is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster, born in 1956. Quick cooking is his signature subject: Real Fast Food (1992), Real Fast Desserts (1993), The 30-Minute Cook (1994) and 30-minute Suppers (1996) all work that ground, with Real Cooking (1997) and Real Good Food (1997) after them. Slater wrote for Marie Claire for five years before moving to The Observer Magazine, where his column has run for more than a decade, and he is the principal writer for Observer Food Monthly. His 27 catalogued books reach A Thousand Feasts (2024), at a median of 288 pages.

Nigella Lawson, born 6 January 1960, is an English food writer and television cook. After Oxford, Lawson became deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986 and later worked as a freelance journalist. How to Eat (1998), the first cookbook, sold 300,000 copies, and How to Be a Domestic Goddess won the British Book Award for Author of the Year. The Channel 4 series Nigella Bites began in 1999 and won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award. The catalogue lists 14 books through Cook, Eat, Repeat (2021), including Feast (2004) and Nigella Express (2007).

Nikki Ash has 46 books in the catalogue, published from 2016 to 2026. Fighting For a Second Chance (2016) is first, followed by Fighting For Your Love (2017) and Fighting With Faith (2017). Ash's series include Fighting Love, Imperfect Love, Love and Lyrics, Tempting Love, Love & Whiskey and Love with Strings. Clinched (2018), Knocked Down (2018) and Takedown (2018) are among the titles, and Secret Seduction (2026) is the newest.

Two novels stand in Nikki Erlick's catalogue, and the first of them, The Measure, went to the Today Show book club in July 2022 as Jenna Bush Hager's pick. The Poppy Fields followed three years later, in 2025. Erlick writes from the United States and is listed as actively publishing.

Nikki Hall has 9 catalogued books published between 2022 and 2026. The run opens with Game Changer and Rule Breaker (2022), followed by Front Runner, Hard Hitter and Play Maker in 2023, then four Ice Cold titles: Ice Cold Heart and Ice Cold Player (2024), Ice Cold Rival (2025) and Ice Cold Goal (2026). Beyond the Ice is the named series, and Hall is actively publishing.

Nikki Sloane writes erotic romance. Three series carry the work: Blindfold Club, Nashville Neighborhood and Dangerous Obsession. Twenty-two books are catalogued between 2015 and 2026, opening with the 2015 group that includes Three Simple Rules, Three Hard Lessons and One More Rule, and reaching Hold Me Close, also issued as Surrender, in 2026. Sloane continues to publish.

Nikki St. Crowe is a USA Today and No. 1 Amazon bestselling author of dark romantasy. St. Crowe dates the start of a writing career to fourth grade, with second place in a Young Author's Competition. The catalogue holds 26 St. Crowe books from 2020 to 2026, including The Never King (2022), the Hot Vampire Next Door seasons and The Never Queen (2026). Series include Vicious Lost Boys, Midnight Harbor, Wrath & Rain, Devourer and Great and Terrible Land, and retellings and fantasy romance appear among the subjects.

Nikki Turner is an American writer of urban fiction whom Trendsetter Magazine called the Queen of Hip Hop Lit. A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick, both from 2003, were the first two books and had sold about 150,000 copies by 2005. Turner, born in Richmond, Virginia, holds a degree from North Carolina Central University and left work as a travel agent to write full time, aiming to show the dark side of street life. The catalogue lists 28 books through Mamma (2024), including The Glamorous Life (2005), Riding Dirty on I-95 (2006), Forever a Hustler's Wife (2007) and Black Widow (2008). Unique, A Hustler's Wife, Project Chick and Glamorous Life are the series.

Nina George, born in 1973, is a German writer. George's first bestseller reached English as The Little Paris Bookshop, having appeared in German in 2013 as Das Lavendelzimmer, and has been translated into more than 28 languages. Five George titles are catalogued here: that book, The Little French Bistro (2017), The Book of Dreams (2019), The Little Village of Book Lovers (2023) and Beautiful Nights (2025). Bookselling, reading, Paris and mental healing recur as subjects. George has published 26 books in all, together with short stories and several hundred newspaper columns, and works under three pen names.

Nina Levine is an Australian romance author. Storm MC is the central series, a motorcycle club sequence that began with Storm in 2013 and extends into Sydney Storm MC and Storm MC Reloaded. Escape With An Alpha and Elixir are the other two lines. Thirty-nine books are catalogued between 2013 and 2025, from Storm to Yours, Now and Always, running near 295 pages each.

Nina Simon

4 books

Nina Simon is an American exhibition curator, museum director and writer, and the founder of the non-profit OF/BY/FOR ALL. Two books came out of the museum work: The Participatory Museum (2010) and The Art of Relevance (2016), on engagement, public relations and the social role of museums. Simon then turned to fiction with Mother-Daughter Murder Night in 2023, a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, and My Sister Is Going to Kill Me followed in 2026. Simon ran the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History from 2012 to 2019.

Nisa Santiago writes urban crime fiction about women in the drug trade. Thirty catalogued books run from Cartier Cartel (2008) to Mafioso - Part 7 (2023), with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Apple & Kola: The Baddest Chick is the longest series, joined by Mafioso, Killer Dolls, House That Hustle Built, Murdergram and South Beach Cartel. Street life, female gangs, women drug dealers, sisters and thieves recur as subjects, across books of a median 254 pages. No new title has appeared since 2023.

Fantasy is Nisha J. Tuli's genre, and her catalogue has grown fast: 15 books published between 2022 and 2026. To Wake a Kingdom (2022) opens the run, and Storm Caller (2026) is the most recent. Five series are catalogued: Artefacts of Ouranos, the Nightfire Quartet, Cursed Captors, Storm Breaker and Curse of Thorne. Titles name sun queens, aurora kings and heart queens, and the novels run to about 400 pages.

Nisha Sharma is an American author of contemporary romance for adults and young adults, written around South Asian characters. Ten books are catalogued between 2018 and 2025, from My So-Called Bollywood Life (2018) to Illusions of Fire (2025). Two series divide them, If Shakespeare Were an Auntie and the Singh Family, and the run includes The Takeover Effect (2019), The Legal Affair (2020), Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance (2021), Dating Dr. Dil (2022), Tastes Like Shakkar (2023), The Karma Map (2023), Marriage & Masti (2024) and The Letters We Keep (2024). Sharma also writes science fiction, paranormal and fantasy romance as Nina Saxena.

Nita Prose is the pen name of Nita Pronovost, a Canadian author and book editor. The Maid (2022) opens the catalogue and won the Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Ned Kelly and Goodreads Choice awards. Seven books are listed through The Maid's Secret (2025), including The Mystery Guest (2023) and The Mistletoe Mystery (2024), and Maid is the series on the listing. Prose started out writing for literary magazines, then worked as an editor at HarperCollins Canada, Doubleday and Simon & Schuster Canada, rising to vice president and editorial director, and ghost wrote celebrity memoirs. Cozy mystery and crime are among the subjects.

Nnedi Okorafor

40 books• 11 series

Nnedi Okorafor, born Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor on April 8, 1974, is a Nigerian American writer of science fiction and fantasy for children and adults. The Binti series and the novels Who Fears Death, Zahrah the Windseeker, Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, Lagoon and Remote Control lead Okorafor's body of work, which also takes in comics and film. Okorafor coined the terms Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for this writing and has won the Hugo, Nebula, Eisner and World Fantasy awards. The catalogue lists 40 books from Zahrah the Windseeker (2005) to The Daughter Who Remains (2026).

Noah Gordon

10 books• 1 series

Ten catalogued books carry Noah Gordon's name, from Night Ward (1960) to The Winemaker (2006). Physicians and healers run through the work in The Death Committee (1969), The Physician (1986) and Shaman (1992), and the Cole Family Trilogy is his one catalogued series. Jewish history supplies the other strand, in The Rabbi (1965), The Jerusalem Diamond (1979) and The Last Jew (1999), with rabbis and the Inquisition among the recorded subjects. Gordon, an American novelist, was born in 1926 and died in 2021.

Noah Hawley works mainly in television, creating, writing and often directing the FX series Fargo, Legion and Alien: Earth, and writes novels alongside that. Seven books are catalogued, from A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998) to Anthem (2022), with The Good Father (2012) and Before the Fall (2016) among them. Conspiracies, government investigators, secrets and brothers run through the subject matter. Hawley also wrote the film The Alibi (2006), wrote and directed Lucy in the Sky (2019), and sings cover versions on those television soundtracks.

Noam Chomsky

134 books• 4 series

Noam Chomsky (Avram Noam Chomsky, born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist and social critic, sometimes called the father of modern linguistics. Chomsky helped found cognitive science, is a major figure in analytic philosophy, and holds posts as laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and institute professor emeritus at MIT. The catalogue lists 134 books, starting with Syntactic Structures (1957) and reaching The Myth of American Idealism (2024). Subjects range from generative grammar to world politics and terrorism.

Noel Hynd writes conspiracy and spy thrillers, with a strand of ghost stories alongside them. Thirty-eight catalogued books span fifty years, from Revenge in 1976 to Johnson's Spy in 2026, taking in Flowers From Berlin (1985), Truman's Spy (1990) and the Russian and Cuban trilogies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, conspiracies and military history recur as subjects, and Hynd continues to publish.

Noelle Adams writes romance, with 111 books catalogued between 2012 and 2025. One Night with her Best Friend (2012) is listed as the first title, and Only December (2025) is the most recent. Series by Adams include Convenient Marriages, Willow Park, Eden Manor, Milford College, Heirs of Damon, Rothman Royals, Trophy Husbands and Beaufort Brides. Noelle Adams is an ongoing author.

Noelle Ihli has three catalogued books, all published within two years: Room for Rent and Twisted Tales in 2023, followed by Gray After Dark in 2024. The list carries no series structure and no recorded subjects, and the catalogue is marked ongoing.

Historical fiction is Noelle Salazar's form. Her five catalogued books open with The Flight Girls (2019) and continue through Angels of the Resistance (2022), The Roaring Days of Zora Lily (2023) and The Lies We Leave Behind (2024). The Meet-Poop (2025) is the most recent title, and the novels run to a median of 384 pages.

Noelle W. Ihli writes thrillers and horror. Her 11 catalogued books begin with The Thicket (2021) and continue through The Last to Drown (2026), taking in Run on Red (2022), Room for Rent (2023), None Left to Tell (2024) and Such Quiet Girls (2025). The Ask for Andrea series sits inside that run. Ihli has published in every year since 2021 and the catalogue stays open.

Nora Ephron

12 books• 1 series

Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012) was an American writer, playwright, journalist and filmmaker, known for writing and directing romantic comedies. Ephron wrote the screenplays for Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986) and When Harry Met Sally... (1989), which won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay. Further honours include nominations for three Academy Awards, a Tony Award and a Golden Globe. The catalogue lists 12 books, including Wallflower at the Orgy (1970), Crazy Salad (1975), Heartburn (1983), I Feel Bad About My Neck (2006) and I Remember Nothing (2010).

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb is a paired author entry, covering work credited to both names together. One title sits under this entry in the catalogue: Spellbound (2005).

Norah Lofts (27 August 1904 – 10 September 1983), born Norah Ethel Robinson, was a British writer of more than fifty books who also published as Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. Historical fiction rooted in English history was the Lofts specialty, though the output also covers mysteries, short stories and non-fiction. Lofts wrote novels, the Suffolk Trilogy among them, that trace particular houses and their occupants across generations. The catalogue holds 62 titles, from I Met a Gypsy (1935) to The Story of Maude Reed, dated 2024, and one 1940 entry carries the Peter Curtis byline. Series listed are House, Sir Godfrey Tallboys and Gad's Hall.

Norman Mailer

56 books• 1 series

Norman Mailer (January 31, 1923 to November 10, 2007), born Nachem Malech Mailer, was an American writer, journalist and filmmaker. Over more than six decades Mailer produced 11 bestsellers, with at least one in each of the seven decades after the Second World War. The Naked and the Dead (1948) brought early fame. The Armies of the Night (1968), a nonfiction novel, won both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and the National Book Award, and The Executioner's Song (1979) won the Pulitzer for fiction. An American Dream and The Fight are other well-known works. The catalogue lists 56 titles, including Barbary Shore (1952), The Deer Park (1955) and Advertisements for Myself (1959).

Nyssa Kathryn has published 40 books since 2020, across six series: Project Arma, Blue Halo, Amber Ridge, Deep River, Mercy Ring and Beautiful Pieces. Single first names title much of the run - Luca (2020), Asher (2020), Eden (2020), Bodie (2021), Mason (2021) and Wyatt (2021) among them. Unfinished (2026) is the most recent entry, and Kathryn remains in active publication.

N'Dia Rae has published 71 books since 2016, almost all of them in series and many in short numbered instalments. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks (2016) opens the catalogue and its own sequence, and A Trap King Chose Me, Ratchet Wives Club: Atlanta Edition, Thot Next Door, Crazy Baby Daddy Chronicles, Banks Empire and the Coldest Billionaire Ever books follow. Justice (2026) is the most recent title, and the catalogue stays open.