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Coraline
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Corinne, or Italy
Madame de Staël

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1807

Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Cornelli
Johanna Spyri

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1892

Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander
Hermes Trismegistus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 200

Corrag
Susan Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Corregidora
Gayl Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Corrupt
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Corrupt (Devil's Night)
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian Klaas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Corsair (Oregon Files, #6)
Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Corydon
André Gide, Richard Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Cosmos
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Ann Druyan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Cost
Roxana Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cost of Living
Martyna Majok

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Cotillion
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Cottage by the Sea
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cotton Comes To Harlem
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Count All Her Bones
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Countdown
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

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

Counterweights
Shannan Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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

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
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

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 Lost and Found
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

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
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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 in Love
Laura Pavlov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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