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Citizen Vince
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

City of Fallen Angels
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

City of Gold
Daniel Blackaby

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

City of Heavenly Fire
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

City of Joy
Dominique Lapierre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

City of Refuge
Kenzo Kitakata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

City of Thorns
Ben Rawlence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1748

Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Amara Lakhous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Leslie S. Klinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Class Matters
The New York Times

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Clay's Ark
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Clay's Quilt
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Clay Walls
Ronyoung Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Cleanness
Garth Greenwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Clear and Present Danger
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Climate Change
A. Barrie Pittock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Climbing the Stairs
Padma Venkatraman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Closely Watched Trains
Jiri Menzel

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1965

Closer
Dennis Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Closet
R.D. Zimmerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Close to Famous
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Close To Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Michael Capuzzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Close to the Knives
David Wojnarowicz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Viv Albertine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Cloud Nine
Luanne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cloudstreet
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Cockroach
Rawi Hage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cockroaches
Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Coconut
Kopano Matlwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Code Girls
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Coffee Will Make You Black
April Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Colin Fischer
Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Color of the Sea
John Hamamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Colors of the Mountain
Da Chen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Come Back to Afghanistan
Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Come, Thou Tortoise
Jessica Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cometh Up as a Flower
Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Comfort Woman
Nora Okja Keller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Coming Apart
Roger Rosenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming, Aphrodite!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Coming Up Roses
Staci Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Comus
John Milton

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

Concealed in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Sarah Darer Littman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1821

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Confessions of a Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
Jody Gehrman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Conspiracy of Fools
Kurt Eichenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Constantine's Sword
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Contact
Susan Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Counting on Grace
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Courage for Beginners
Karen Harrington

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Courage Has No Color
Tanya Lee Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Courtesan
Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Coyote America
Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Kenneth T. Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Crackback
John Coy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Crash
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Crashing America
Katia Noyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cripple Creek Days
Mabel Barbee Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Crisis in the Red Zone
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Crispin: At the Edge of the World
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Crooked
Brian M. Wiprud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Crooked River
Shelley Pearsall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Crow Fair: Stories
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015