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A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Catskill Eagle
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

A Certain Justice
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

A Childhood
Harry Crews

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

A Chorus of Stones
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

A Conspiracy of Paper
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

A Country Doctor
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1919

A Crack in the Earth
Haim Watzman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Crime In The Neighborhood
Suzanne Berne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

A Crime So Monstrous
E. Benjamin Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Crucible of Souls
Mitchell Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Cure for Night
Justin Peacock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Cure for Suicide
Jesse Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curse Dark As Gold
Elizabeth C. Bunce

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Caesar
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Caged Warrior
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Cal
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Calico Joe
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Calypso
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Canada
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Candor
Pam Bachorz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Candyfreak
Steve Almond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cane River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cantoras
Carolina De Robertis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cape May
Chip Cheek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Captain Nobody
Dean Pitchford

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Captive Trail
Susan Page Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Career of Evil
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Caricature
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Carpe Diem
Autumn Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Carrie's War
Nina Bawden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

Carry on Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Carter Finally Gets It
Brent Crawford

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Carve the Mark
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Casino Royale
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Cassandra
Pierre De Ronsard

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1553

Cast of Shadows
Kevin Guilfoile

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Cathleen Ni Houlihan
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

Centennial
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Chained in Silence
Talitha L. Leflouria

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Chanda's Secrets
Allan Stratton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2009

Charles Dickens: A Life
Claire Tomalin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Charley's Choice
Fern J. Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Charlie Wilson's War
George Crile

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Charm
Leyla Atke

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Charm City
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Charming Billy
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Chasing Redbird
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Chasing the Valley
Skye Melki-Wegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Donald R. Howard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Cheaper By The Dozen
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948

Cheating Death
Marvin J Cetron, Owen Davies

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Check, Please: #Hockey
Ngozi Ukazu

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2018

Chee's Daughter
Juanita Platero

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1991

Chekhov
Henri Troyat

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

Chesapeake
James Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Mark Victor Hansen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1997

Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Child 44
Tom Rob Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1812

Child of Dandelions
Shenaaz Nanji

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Child of the Owl
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Children of a Lesser God
Mark Medoff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Children of Dust
Ali Eteraz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Children of God
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Children of Light
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Children Of The Dust
Jerry Stanley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Children of the River
Linda Crew

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Children on Their Birthdays
Truman Capote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

China Boy
Gus Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1980

China's Second Continent
Howard W. French

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Chinese Handcuffs
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Choke
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Choosing Up Sides
John H. Ritter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Chopin's Funeral
Benita Eisler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Chord
Rick Barot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Chorus of Mushrooms
Hiromi Goto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Christ Stopped At Eboli
Carlo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Chronicles of the Crusades
Jean de Joinville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1309

Chronology
Zahra Patterson

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Church of Marvels
Leslie Parry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1959

Cinderella
Grimm Brothers

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1812

Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Circling the Sun
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cities Of Salt
Abdelrahman Munif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Citizen Jane
Christopher Andersen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Citizen of the Galaxy
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Citizen Tom Paine
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Citizen Vince
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

City of Gold
Daniel Blackaby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

City of Heavenly Fire
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

City of Joy
Dominique Lapierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

City of Refuge
Kenzo Kitakata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

City of Thorns
Ben Rawlence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Amara Lakhous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Leslie S. Klinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Class Matters
The New York Times

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Clay's Quilt
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Clay Walls
Ronyoung Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Cleanness
Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Clear and Present Danger
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Climate Change
A. Barrie Pittock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Climbing the Stairs
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Closely Watched Trains
Jiri Menzel

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1965

Closer
Dennis Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Closet
R.D. Zimmerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Close to Famous
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Close To Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Michael Capuzzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Close to the Knives
David Wojnarowicz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Viv Albertine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Cloud Nine
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cloudstreet
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Cockroach
Rawi Hage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cockroaches
Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Coconut
Kopano Matlwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Code Girls
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Coffee Will Make You Black
April Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Colin Fischer
Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Color of the Sea
John Hamamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Colors of the Mountain
Da Chen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Come Back to Afghanistan
Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Come, Thou Tortoise
Jessica Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cometh Up as a Flower
Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Comfort Woman
Nora Okja Keller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Coming Apart
Roger Rosenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming, Aphrodite!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Coming Up Roses
Staci Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Comus
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1634

Concealed in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Sarah Darer Littman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1821

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
Jody Gehrman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Conspiracy of Fools
Kurt Eichenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Constantine's Sword
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Contact
Susan Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Counting on Grace
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Courage for Beginners
Karen Harrington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Courage Has No Color
Tanya Lee Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Courtesan
Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Coyote America
Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Kenneth T. Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Crackback
John Coy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Crash
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Crashing America
Katia Noyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creativity, Inc.
Amy Wallace, Edwin Catmull

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cripple Creek Days
Mabel Barbee Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Crisis in the Red Zone
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Crispin: At the Edge of the World
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Crooked
Brian M. Wiprud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Crooked River
Shelley Pearsall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Crow Fair: Stories
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Cry of the Kalahari
Mark Owens, Delia Owens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Cuba 15
Nancy Osa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Curse of the Starving Class
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Curveball
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Custer's Trials
T. J. Stiles

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Cycle of Hope
Tricia Downing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Cyclops
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Camel Bookmobile
Masha Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Cardturner
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Care and Management of Lies
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Caretaker
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

The Carrying
Ada Limón

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

The Cartel
Don Winslow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Carter Family
Frank M. Young, David Lasky

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Case for Faith
Lee Strobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Casual Vacancy
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Paula Danziger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

The Catcher Was a Spy
Nicholas Dawidoff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1994

The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1957

The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

The Cenci
Antonin Artaud

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

The Centaur
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Challenger Launch Decision
Diane Vaughan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Chamber
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Chaneysville Incident
David Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Changeover
Margaret Mahy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Chatham School Affair
Thomas H. Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Chemistry of Tears
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Child
Fiona Barton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Child in Time
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Children's Book
A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Chosen One
Carol Lynch Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Christopher Killer
Alane Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Cinderella Waltz
Ann Beattie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

The Cinnamon Shops
Bruno Schulz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1934

The Circus in Winter
Cathy Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Citizen of the World
Oliver Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1762

The City in History
Lewis Mumford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

The Clockwork Three
Matthew J. Kirby

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Cloning of Joanna May
Franklin Birkinshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Cocaine Wars
Paul Eddy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Cocktail Party
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Coffin Dancer
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Collector of Treasures
Bessie Head

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Collectors
Jacqueline West

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Colonel's Lady
Laura Frantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Color of Law
Mark Gimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Coming Anarchy
Robert D. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Commitments
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Concubine's Children
Denise Chong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Conjure Woman
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1899

The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 58

The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Constant Gardener
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Contender
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Contrast
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1801

The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

The Counterlife
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Country in the City
Richard A. Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1896

The Cove
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Crazed
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Creation of Patriarchy
Gerda Lerner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Crimson Crown
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Crown
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Cry of the Icemark
Stuart Hill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Cryptogram
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Cupcake Queen
Heather Hepler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Cure for Death by Lightning
Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Phaedra Patrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Curse of Capistrano
Johnston McCulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Cutting Season
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012