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The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Padraic Colum, Homer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934

The Children's Story
James Clavell

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1981

The Child Thief
Dan Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Chimes
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1844

The Chimp Paradox
Steve Peters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Chinese Bell Murders
Robert van Gulik

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Chinese Groove
Kathryn Ma

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Beth Lew-Williams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Chocolate Touch
Patrick Skene Catling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

The Choice
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and The Talmud
Maggie Anton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eva Eger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Chosen
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nghi Vo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Chosen (Contender, #1)
Taran Matharu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Chosen One
Carol Lynch Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Chosen Ones
Steve Sem-Sandberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing (Writers' Palette Book)
Leland Ryken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

The Christie Affair
Nina de Gramont

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Christmas Box
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Christmas Fix
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Christmas List
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Christmas Pact
Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Christmas Party
Kathryn Croft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Christmas Pig
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Christmas Shoes
Donna VanLiere

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Christmas Sisters
Sarah Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Christmas Spirit
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Christmas Train
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Christmas Wedding
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Christopher Killer
Alane Ferguson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Chronoliths
Robert Charles Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Chronology of Water
Lidia Yuknavitch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Chronology Protection Case
Paul Levinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Chrysalids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Cider House Rules
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Cinderella Deal
Jennifer Crusie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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 Cipher
Isabella Maldonado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Circle
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Circle of Reason
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts Rinehart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus
Charles Wilkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1900

The Circus in Winter
Cathy Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Circus of Dr. Lao
Charles G. Finney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

The Circus Train
Amita Parikh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Citadel
A.J. Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun, #4)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Citizen of the World
Oliver Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1762

The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The City and the City
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The City and the Stars
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
Louise Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The City in History
Lewis Mumford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The City Jilt: or the Alderman Turn'd Beau
Eliza Fowler Haywood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1726

The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)
Walter Moers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The City of God
Saint Augustine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 426

The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The City of the Sun
Tommaso Campanella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1602

The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1860

The Civilizing Process
Norbert Elias

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

The Civil War
Gaius Julius Caesar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 48

The Civil War: A Narrative
Shelby Foote

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

The Civil War in France
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1871

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Anne Rice, A.N. Roquelaure

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Class Struggles in France, 1848-1850
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1850

The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun, #2)
Gene Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Clay Marble
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The Clean House
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cleft
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Client
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
William D. Nordhaus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Clique (The Clique, #1)
Lisi Harrison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Clocks
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Clock Winder
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Clockwork Three
Matthew J. Kirby

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Cloisters
Katy Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Cloning of Joanna May
Franklin Birkinshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Closers
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students
Allan Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Cloud Atlas
Liam Callanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1400

The Clouds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Clown
Heinrich Böll, Laureano Xoaquín Araujo Cardalda, Leila Vennewitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Club
Ellery Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022