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Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Counting Descent
Clint Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Counting Miracles
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Counting the Cost
Craig Borlase, Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Count Me In
Varsha Bajaj

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Count My Lies
Sophie Stava

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Antjie Krog

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Courtroom 302
Steve Bogira

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Crabbe
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Cracker
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Michael Braungart, William McDonough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Crank
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2004

Crash
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Crave
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Tom Kelley, David Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Credence
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crenshaw
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
Lois Tyson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1788

Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1781

Crito
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Crook County
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Crooked House
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Crooked Kingdom: A Sequel to Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Cross Down
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Crossed
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1856

Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1889

Crossing the Mangrove
Maryse Condé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Crossing the Wire
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Cross of Gold
Robert W. Cherny, William Jennings Bryan

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1896

Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Crossroads
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crow Lake
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Crow Mary
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Crown of Midnight
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Crumbs From the Table of Joy
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Crusoe in England
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Cuba: An American History
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Cue for Treason
Geoffrey Trease

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1940

Cujo
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Zaretta L. Hammond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
Matthew Arnold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1869

Culture and Imperialism
Edward Said

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 170

Cursed Bunny: Stories
Bora Chung, Transl. Anton Hur

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Curse of the Starving Class
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Vine Deloria Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cyclops
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 422

Cymbeline
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Cynthia in the Snow
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

The Cabin at the End of the World
Paul Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Cage
Ruth Minsky Sender

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1928

The Call of the Wild
Jack London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1903

The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

The Candy House
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Candymakers
Wendy Mass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Candy Shop War
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1400

The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1887

The Canyon's Edge
Dusti Bowling

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

The Captain's Daughter
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

The Cardboard Kingdom
Chad Sell

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

The Caretaker: A Novel
Ron Rash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Carriage
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1836

The Cartographers
Peng Shepherd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Michael J. Sandel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Case for Reparations
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1846

The Castle
Franz Kafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1926

The Castle in the Attic
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1764

The Catbird Seat
James Thurber

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944