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The Cricket In Times Square
George Selden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1960

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Cross and the Switchblade
David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1963

The Crossing
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Crossover
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Crucible
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

The Cruelest Month
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Cruel Prince
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913