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City Spies
James Ponti

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1849

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

Civil Peace
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Clap When You Land
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2020

Class Act
Jerry Craft

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stephanie Land

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip Hoose

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2009

Clay
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

Clean Getaway
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Clementine
Sara Pennypacker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Click
Kayla Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Clock Dance
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Closed for the Season
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Closer to Freedom
Stephanie Camp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Close to Death
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Clotel
William Wells Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Cloud Atlas
David C. Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Clues to the Universe
Christina Li

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Clybourne Park
Bruce Norris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2010

Clytemnestra
Costanza Casati

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Coal
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Code Name Hélène
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1781

Code of Honor
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Code of the Street
Elijah Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Code Orange
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Code Talker
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Judith Schiess Avila, Chester Nez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Mary L. Dudziak

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Collapse
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Colored Television
Danzy Senna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Columbine
Dave Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Columbus
Joaquin Miller

Nonfiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1900

Come and Get It
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Comfort & Joy
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Coming Of Age In Mississippi
Anne Moody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Coming Up for Air
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Common Sense
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1776

Commonwealth
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1850

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

Conclave
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1846

Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1836

Concrete Rose
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Laila Lalami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Confederate Reckoning
Stephanie McCurry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Confederates In The Attic: Dispatches From The Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Confess
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions
Saint Augustine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 400

Confessions
Transl. Stephen Snyder, Kanae Minato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Confessions on the 7:45
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

Conjectures and Refutations
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

Conscientious Objector
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Consider The Lobster
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2004

Consilience
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Consolation Of Philosophy
Boethius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 524

Constitution of United States of America
Constitutional Convention

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1787

Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket
Jack Finney

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1956

Continuity of Parks
Julio Cortázar

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1964

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Teresa Torres

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata, Transl. Ginny Tapley Takemori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Coolie
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Copenhagen
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Coraline
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Cora Unashamed
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Corregidora
Gayl Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Corrupt
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Cosmos
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Cost of Living
Martyna Majok

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016