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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 Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Commitments
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1925

The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1848

The Communist Manifesto/Wages, Price and Profit
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1848

The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Paradigm)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Companions (The Sundering, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #24)
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Company of Wolves
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

The Comparative Anatomy of Angels
Gustav Theodor Fechner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1825

The Competitive Advantage Of Nations
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Complete Collected Poems
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1850

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1812

The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
Tony Attwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

The Complete Robot (Robot, #0.3)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Complete Stories and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1849

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

The Compound
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Darren Hardy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Computer Connection
Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1844

The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Concept of Mind
Gilbert Ryle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Concept of Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924

The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Concubine
Elechi Amadi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Concubine's Children
Denise Chong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Condemnation of Blackness
Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1845

The Conditions of Will
Jessa Hastings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1860

The Confabulist
Steven Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Confession
Mary Roberts Rinehart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

The Confession Club (Mason, #3)
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Confession of Saint Patrick
Patrick of Ireland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 425

The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1782

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
C.W. Gortner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Sara Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Confessions of Lady Nijō
Lady Nijō

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1307

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Confessions of X
Suzanne M. Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, #3)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Confidant
Hélène Grémillon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
Christopher C. Gorham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
Katty Kay, Claire Shipman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
Maria Konnikova

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

The Confidential Clerk
T.S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1950

The Conformist (Italia)
Alberto Moravia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Confusion
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1906

The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
Rudolph Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Conjure Woman
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1899

The Connellys of County Down
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Conquest of Bread
Pyotr Kropotkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 58

The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1930

The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our World
R.C. Sproul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Russell Kirk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Thomas Ligotti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Constant Gardener
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Constitution of Liberty
Friedrich A. Hayek

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1960

The Consuming Fire
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Contender
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Contrast
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1801

The Control of Nature
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Convalescent
Jessica Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Convenient Marriage
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

The Cookbook Collector
Allegra Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael W. Twitty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Copper Beech
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium, #2)
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Coppersmith Farmhouse
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Coquette
Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

The Coral Island
R.M. Ballantyne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1857

The Corbaccio, or, The Labyrinth of Love
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1365

The Core
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Corn Grows Ripe (Puffin Newbery Library)
Dorothy Rhoads

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1956

The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
Colin Cotterill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Corporation
Joel Bakan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
Hassan Blasim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Corsican Brothers
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

The Cossacks and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1863