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Clytemnestra
Costanza Casati

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Code Name Hélène
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

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

Come and Get It
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Comfort & Joy
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Coming Up for Air
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Commonwealth
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Conclave
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Confess
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions
Transl. Stephen Snyder, Kanae Minato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

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

Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

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

Corregidora
Gayl Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Corrupt
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cotton Comes To Harlem
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Counting Miracles
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Count My Lies
Sophie Stava

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Credence
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Crooked House
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Cross Down
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Crossing the Mangrove
Maryse Condé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Crossroads
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crow Lake
Mary Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Crow Mary
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Cujo
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dark Matter
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Dark Places
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Daughter Of Fortune
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Daughter of Mine
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughters of Shandong
Eve J. Chung

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughters of the Dust
Julie Dash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Dawn
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dawn
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Day
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Daydream
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa, Transl. Eric Ozawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Days Without End
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Daytripper
Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Deacon King Kong
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dead Lions
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deadly Animals
Marie Tierney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dear John
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Death On The Nile
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Death's End
Liu Cixin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Defending Jacob
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Delicate Condition
Danielle Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Deliverance
James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders
Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Devil In A Blue Dress
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Devil on the Cross
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Different Seasons
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dirt Music
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Disclaimer
Renée Knight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Doctor Sleep
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Does It Hurt?
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992