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Chemistry
Weike Wang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Chéri
Colette Gauthier-Villars

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Cherish
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Cherish (Crave, #6)
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Serhii Plokhy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Cherry
Nico Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Chesapeake
James Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Chesapeake Blue
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Chess Story
Joel Rotenberg, Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay, Стефан Цвайг

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Chestnut Street

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2014

Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food
Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice
John Layman, Rob Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cheyenne Autumn
Mari Sandoz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Chicken Boy
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Getting In. . . to College: 101 True Stories from Kids Who Have Lived Through It
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Mark Victor Hansen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 1997

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III: More Stories of Life, Love and Learning (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2000

Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Chiefs (Will Lee, #1)
Stuart Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Child 44
Tom Rob Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1812

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1855

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1886

Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Child of All Nations
Irmgard Keun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Child of Dandelions
Shenaaz Nanji

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Child of God
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Child of the Owl
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Child of the Prophecy
Juliet Marillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Children of a Lesser God
Mark Medoff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Children of Amarid (Lon Tobyn Chronicle #1)
David B. Coe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Children of Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Children of Dust
Ali Eteraz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Children of Fallen Gods
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Children of God
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Children of Light
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mel Hudson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Children Of The Dust
Jerry Stanley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Children of the Jacaranda Tree
Sahar Delijani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Children of the Land
Marcelo Hernández Castillo

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Children of the Longhouse
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1996

Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Children of the River
Linda Crew

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1989

Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Children on Their Birthdays
Truman Capote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

Child's Garden of Verses: Poems from a Poetry Pop-Up Book
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

Chilled
Kendra Elliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Chill Factor
Sandra Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Chime
Franny Billingsley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

CHIMERAS (Track Presius #1)
E.E. Giorgi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Chimerica
Lucy Kirkwood

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2013

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
Frans de Waal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them
Steve Peters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

China Boy
Gus Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

China Dream

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1980

China Mountain Zhang
Maureen F. McHugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

China Rich Girlfriend
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

China Room
Sunjeev Sahota

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

China's Second Continent
Howard W. French

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1999

Chinese Handcuffs
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Chip War
Chris Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Chita: A Memory of Last Island
Lafcadio Hearn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, #1)
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1964

Chobits, Vol. 1
Shirley Kubo, Clamp

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Chocolat
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Chocolate Fever
Robert Kimmel Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
William Glasser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Choir Boy
Tarell Alvin McCraney

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Choke
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Paul Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Chomp
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Choose Me
Tess Gerritsen, Gary Braver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream
James Altucher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Choosing Theo
Victoria Aveline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Choosing Up Sides
John H. Ritter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Chopin's Funeral
Benita Eisler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Chopsticks
Jessica Anthony, Rodrigo Corral

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Chord
Rick Barot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Chorus of Mushrooms
Hiromi Goto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Chosen
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Chosen at Nightfall
C.C. Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Chosen By God: Know God's Perfect Plan for His Glory and His Children
R.C. Sproul

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Chosen Ones
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Chowringhee
Sankar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
Diana Butler Bass

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Christianity and Liberalism
J. Gresham Machen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
John Boswell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Christina's Ghost
Betty Ren Wright

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

Christ in Concrete
Pietro Di Donato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Christine
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Christine Falls (Quirke, #1)
Benjamin Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Christmas at the Island Hotel (Mure, #4)
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020