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Countdown
Brendan DuBois, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

COUNTDOWN
James Patterson and Brendan DuBois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2)
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Counting on Grace
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Counting the Cost
Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

COUNTING THE COST
Jill Duggar with Derick Dillard and Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Count Me In
Varsha Bajaj

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Count Roderic's Castle, or, Gothic Times
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Country Girl
Edna O'Brien

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Antjie Krog

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Count the Ways
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Count Your Lucky Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Count Zero
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

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

Courageous
Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Simone Biles

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Course in General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Courtesan
Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1)
Kate Elliott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Court of the Vampire Queen
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Courtroom 302
Steve Bogira

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Cousin Phyllis
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1863

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850; the diary of Margaret A. Frink (Living Voices of the Past)
Kenneth L. Holmes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Nicole Eustace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Cover of Snow
Jenny Milchman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Cover Story
Susan Rigetti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Covet
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Cows
Matthew Stokoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Coyote America
Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Crabbe
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

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

Cracked Kingdom
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Cracker
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy
Jason Bell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Crafting for Sinners
Jenny Kiefer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Crank
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2004

Crash
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Crash & Burn
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Crashed
K. Bromberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crashed (Driven, #3)
K. Bromberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Crashing America
Katia Noyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crash into You
Katie McGarry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Crater (Helium-3, #1)
Homer Hickam

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Cratylus
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 351

Crave
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Craving
Helen Hardt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy House
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Crazy Lady! (Trophy Newbery)
Jane Leslie Conly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Ethan Watters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy Little Thing (Bell Harbor, #1)
Tracy Brogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Crazy Stupid Bromance
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Muhammad Yunus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creation in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Tom Kelley, David Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1907

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
Shakti Gawain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
John Cleese

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Creatures of Passage
Morowa Yejide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Credence
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Creed
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Creed: What Christians Believe and Why
Adam Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Creep
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Crenshaw
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series)
Merle Hodge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Criminal
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors
Frances Power Cobbe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Crimson Bound
Rosamund Hodge

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Crimson Lake (Crimson Lake, #1)
Candice Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017