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The Chicken Sisters
K.J. Dell'Antonia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Children Act
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Children of Húrin
J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Children of Men
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Children's Blizzard
David Laskin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934

The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

The Chocolate Touch
Patrick Skene Catling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

The Choice
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eva Eger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

The Chosen
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nghi Vo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Christie Affair
Nina de Gramont

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Christmas Box
Richard Paul Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Chrysalids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Chrysanthemums
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1937

The Cider House Rules
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
Laurie Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Cinnamon Peeler
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

The Circle
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Circle Game
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jiménez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Circular Ruins
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1940

The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The City and the City
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The City of God
Augustine of Hippo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 426

The City of God
Saint Augustine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 426

The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Clash of Civilizations
Samuel Huntington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1993

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Clay Marble
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The Clean House
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Client
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Clockmaker's Daughter
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Cloisters
Katy Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students
Allan Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Clouds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Club
Ellery Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Michael Bungay Stanier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Coffee Trader
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Cold Dish
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cold Equations
Tom Godwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1954

The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Cold Millions
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Collected Regrets of Clover
Mikki Brammer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Collector
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Colonel
Carolyn Forché

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Colored Museum
George C. Wolfe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Color of a Lie
Kim Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Jemar Tisby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Color of Magic
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Color of My Words
Lynn Joseph

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Color of Water
James McBride

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

The Colour Out of Space
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
Alfred W. Crosby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

The Comfort Book
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Michael Easter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Coming on of Night
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1848

The Competitive Advantage Of Nations
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Compound
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Darren Hardy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1844

The Condemnation of Blackness
Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1845

The Conditions of Will
Jessa Hastings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Confession
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1782

The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Sara Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Congo
Vachel Lindsay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
Rudolph Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Conqueror Worm
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1843

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Control of Nature
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Conundrum of the Workshops
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

The Convent Threshold
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

The Convergence of the Twain: Lines on the loss of the "Titanic"
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

The Conversion of the Jews
Philip Roth

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael W. Twitty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017