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A Canticle For Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

A Caress of Twilight
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #9)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)
James Blish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Case of Need
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

A Catskill Eagle
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes
Helen Hunt Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1881

A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Certain Justice
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)
Laura Whitcomb

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

A Certain Smile
Françoise Sagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

A Chance in the World
Steve Pemberton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Elisabeth Elliot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

A Change in Altitude
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Change of Climate
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

A Chemical History of a Candle
Michael Faraday, William Crookes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1861

A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

A Childhood
Harry Crews

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1952

A Choice of Gods
Clifford D. Simak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

A Chorus of Stones
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A Chorus Rises (A Song Below Water, #2)
Bethany C. Morrow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1843

A Christmas Odyssey
Anne Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Circle of Children
Mary MacCracken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, #1)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

A Circle of Wives
Alice LaPlante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Clergyman's Daughter
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
Becky Chambers, Becky Chambers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Cold Dark Place (Cold Justice, #1)
Toni Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1)
Dana Stabenow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Cold Day in Paradise (Alex McKnight, #1)
Steve Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A College of Magics (A College of Magics, #1)
Caroline Stevermer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

A Column of Fire
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1958

A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

A Conjuring of Light
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

A Conspiracy in Belgravia
Sherry Thomas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Conspiracy of Kings
Megan Whalen Turner

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

A Conspiracy of Paper
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Lizabeth Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1)
Don Winslow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

A Corner of the Universe
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

A Cosmology of Monsters
Shaun Hamill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Countess Below Stairs
Eva Ibbotson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1981

A Country Doctor
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1919

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
Robert W. Merry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Country Year: Living the Questions
Sue Hubbell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume - Volume I : Text, Volume II: Workbook for Students, Volume III: Manual for Teachers
Foundation for Inner Peace, Helen Schucman

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

A Court of Honey and Ash (Honey and Ice, #1)
Shannon Mayer, Kelly St. Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

A Court This Cruel and Lovely
Stacia Stark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Crack in the Earth
Haim Watzman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Crack in the Edge of the World
Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Creed for the Third Millennium
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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 Criminal Defense
William L. Myers Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Linda Urban

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

A Crown of Swords
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Crucible of Souls
Mitchell Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Crystal Age
William Henry Hudson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1887

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Laura Taylor Namey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Cup of Rage
Raduan Nassar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Daisy Hernandez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Beginning
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curious Land: Stories from Home (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)
Susan Muaddi Darraj

Fiction | Short Story | 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

A Curse for True Love
Stephanie Garber

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Curve in the Road
Julianne MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cabal
Clive Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Cabin Fever
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Cackle
Rachel Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1935

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Marc Reisner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Caesar
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1898

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Sam Kean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Cage
Harper Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Caged Warrior
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010