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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

Clown Town

Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Clutch

Emily Nemens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success

John Wooden, Jay Carty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cockroach

Rawi Hage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Cockroaches

Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Cocoa Beach

Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Coconut

Kopano Matlwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Code

Lawrence Lessig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Coded Justice

Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Code Girls

Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Coffee Will Make You Black

April Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Coffin Moon

Keith Rosson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Cold Skies

Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cold Zero

Brad Thor, Ward Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Coleridge: Early Visions

Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Colin Fischer

Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Collide

Bal Khabra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Closer

Sara Gran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Come, Thou Tortoise

Jessica Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cometh Up as a Flower

Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Comet in Moominland

Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1946

Comfort Me With Apples

Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Comfort Woman

Nora Okja Keller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Comics and Sequential Art

Will Eisner

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1985

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

Coming up Short

Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Company

Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1979

Competitive Advantage

Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Competitive Strategy

Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Concealed in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Concrete Botany

Joey Santore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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 a Murder Suspect

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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 Triple Shot Betty

Jody Gehrman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Confessions of the Dead

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Confronting Evil

Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Confucius

Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Congo

Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Connie

Connie Chung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

Fred Kofman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Conscious Uncoupling

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Continental Drift

Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Conundrum

Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Conviction

Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Cooper Union Address

Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Cop Town

Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Countdown

Brendan DuBois, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Countdown

Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Counterweights

Shannan Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Counting Backwards

Binnie Kirshenbaum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Court

Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

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

Cover Her Face

P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Covet

Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Cowboy Stuntman

Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Cows

Matthew Stokoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Cradle and All

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Crafting for Sinners

Jenny Kiefer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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