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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Michael W. Twitty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Cop and the Anthem

O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

The Coquette

Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

The Corporation

Joel Bakan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1937

The Cost of Knowing

Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Country Husband

John Cheever

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1962

The Country of the Blind

H. G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

The Country Wife

William Wycherley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1675

The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Courage of Sarah Noble

Alice Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Courage That My Mother Had

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

The Courage to Be Disliked

Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Cousins

Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Coven

Harper L. Woods

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Coworker

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Crash

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Crazy Woman

Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

G. Edward Griffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert W. Service

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1907

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

John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, David Wilkerson

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 Crown of Gilded Bones

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Stephen Hanselman, Ryan Holiday

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Danger of a Single Story

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Transl. Megan McDowell, Mariana Enríquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

The Darkest Child

Delores Phillips

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Dark Forest

Transl. Joel Martinsen, Liu Cixin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Darkling Thrush

Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

The Dark Prophecy

Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Dark Tower

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Darling

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Daughter of Invention

Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Daughter Of Time

Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Catherine Grace Katz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber, David Wengrow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Jim DeFede

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

Nat Hentoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Dead

James Joyce

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1914

The Dead

Susan Mitchell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

The Dead and the Gone

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne, Tamara Payne

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dead Zone

Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Deal

Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Dearly Beloved

Cara Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dan Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death Cure

James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

David A. Ansell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death of a Government Clerk

Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1883

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Transl. Alfred J. MacAdam, Carlos Fuentes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Death of a Soldier

Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend

Peter Ackroyd, Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Death of Santa Claus

Charles Harper Webb

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Death of the Author

Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1967

The Death of the Hired Man

Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Death of the Moth

Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Death of Woman Wang

Jonathan Spence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1353

The Decay of Lying

Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1889

The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1776

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Deep

Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2019

The Deep End

Jeff Kinney

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

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity

Nadine Burke Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Deer and the Dragon

Piper CJ

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Defence of Poesy

Philip Sidney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1595

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy

Stephanie Kelton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Demon in the Freezer

Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Demon Lover

Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945