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Christmas Bells
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Christmas In Camelot
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Christmas Jars
Jason F. Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Christmas on the Island (Mure, #3)
Jenny Colgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Christmas Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Christmas Wishes
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Christ of the Celts: The Healing of Creation
John Philip Newell, J. Philip Newell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Christopher and His Kind
Christopher Isherwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

Christ Stopped At Eboli
Carlo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Chron
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Chronicle in Stone
Ismail Kadare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1981

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1542

Chronicles
Jean Froissart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1400

Chronicles of the Crusades
Jean de Joinville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1309

Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Chronology
Zahra Patterson

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Chthon
Piers Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
Zhuangzi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 351

Chúcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa
Francis Kalnay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1958

Chu Ju's House
Gloria Whelan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Chupacabra (Marty and Grace #3)
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Church Dogmatics 1.1: The Doctrine of the Word of God
Karl Barth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

Church History in Plain Language
Bruce L. Shelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Andrew Roberts

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Church of Marvels
Leslie Parry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1959

Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cinder
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Cinderella
Grimm Brothers

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1812

Cinder & Ella
Kelly Oram

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Cinderella is Dead
Kalynn Bayron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Cinderella Liberator
Rebecca Solnit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Cinema Speculation

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Cinnamon Gardens
Shyam Selvadurai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Circe
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Eliza Griswold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1841

Circling the Sun
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Circus Mirandus
Cassie Beasley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Circus of the Damned
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Circus of Wonders
Elizabeth Macneal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Circus Shoes (Shoes, #3)
Noel Streatfeild

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1938

Cirque Du Freak: Lord of the Shadows, Vol. 11
Darren O'Shaughnessy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Cirque Du Freak, Vol. 1
Darren Shan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

C is for Corpse
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Cities
John Reader

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cities Of Salt
Abdelrahman Munif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1946

Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Citizen Jane
Christopher Andersen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Citizen Kane
Orson Welles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

Citizen of the Galaxy
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Lynne Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Stephen E. Ambrose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Citizen Tom Paine
Howard Fast

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Citizen Vince
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

City Lovers
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

City of Bohane
Kevin Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

City of Bones
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

City of Bones: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
Mimi O'Connor

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
William Dalrymple

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

City of Dragons
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

City of Dreams (Old New York, #1)
Beverly Swerling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

City of Endless Night (Pendergast, #17)
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

City of Ghosts
Stacia Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

City of Glass
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

City of God

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

City of Gold
Daniel Blackaby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
Tad Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

City of Heavenly Fire
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

City of Joy
Dominique Lapierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

City of Lies (Counterfeit Lady, #1)
Victoria Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
Ramita Navai

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

City of Night
John Rechy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

City of Orphans
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

City of Refuge
Kenzo Kitakata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
Robert Jackson Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

City of the Beasts
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

City of the Lost (Rockton, #1)
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

City of the Plague God (Adventures of Sik Aziz, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

City of Thieves
David Benioff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

City of Thorns
Ben Rawlence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

City of Tranquil Light
Bo Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

City Spies
James Ponti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1866

Civilization And Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1930

Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Clade
James Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Claimed
Evangeline Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011