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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

Comus

John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1634

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

Kanae Minato, Transl. Stephen Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

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

Conform: A Novel

Ariel Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Me

Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Contact: A Novel

Carl Sagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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

Cosmic

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

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

Cotton Comes To Harlem

Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Counterfeit

Kirstin Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Counterparts

James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

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

Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

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

Count Zero

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Court of the Vampire Queen

Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

William McDonough, Michael Braungart

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