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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Charlie Thorne And The Last Equation

Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth

Susanna Rowson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

Charming as a Verb

Ben Philippe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent's Search for Hope and Justice

Robert Hilland, John Edward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin

James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2018

Chasing Lincoln's Killer

James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Chasing Love

Kat T. Masen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Chasing the Falconers

Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Chasing Vermeer

Blue Balliett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

Ethan Kross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Cheaper By The Dozen

Frank B. Gilbreth Jr, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1948

Checkers

Richard Nixon

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1952

Checking Out

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Cherrylog Road

James Dickey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Cher: The Memoir: Part One

Cher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food

Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Chickamauga

Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1984

Childhood

Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Childhood Memories

William Saphier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

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 Fallen Gods

Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Children of the Corn

Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Children’s Rhymes

Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

China in Ten Words

Yu Hua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

China Rich Girlfriend

Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Chinese Cinderella

Adeline Yen Mah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1999

Chip War

Chris Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Chomp

Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great

Joshua Medcalf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Chosen

Marilyn Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Christabel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Christ in Concrete

Pietro Di Donato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Christine

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Christmas In Camelot

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Christy

Catherine Marshall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

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: Volume One

Bob Dylan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Cicero: On Duties (De Officiis)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | BCE

Cilka's Journey

Heather Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cinder

Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Cinderella is Dead

Kalynn Bayron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Circe

Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Circle of Days

Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Circus Mirandus

Cassie Beasley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

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 Illegal

José Olivarez

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

City of Ashes

Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

City of Bones

Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

City of Ghosts

V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

City of Girls

Elizabeth Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

City of Glass

Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

City of Glass

Paul Auster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

City of God

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult

City of Gods and Monsters

Kayla Edwards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 the Beasts

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

City of Thieves

David Benioff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Carys Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

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