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Competitive Advantage
Michael E. Porter

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

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 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

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
Fred Kofman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

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

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

Countdown
Brendan DuBois, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Covet
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

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

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

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy House
James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Crazy Love
Francis Chan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Cress
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Crier's War
Nina Varela

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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

Cross and Sampson
James Patterson, Brian Sitts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Crossed (Never After, 5)
Emily McIntire

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Crosshairs
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Cross Justice
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Crow Country
Kate Constable

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Crowds and Power
Elias Canetti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Crow Fair: Stories
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Crow Talk
Eileen Garvin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Cruel Beauty
Rosamund Hodge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Cruel Seduction
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Crush
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Cry Havoc
Jack Carr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Cry of the Kalahari
Mark Owens, Delia Owens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Cuba 15
Nancy Osa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Cultures and Organizations
Geert Hofstede

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Curtain
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Curveball
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Custer's Trials
T. J. Stiles

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chogyam Trungpa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Cycle of Hope
Tricia Downing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Cycle of the Werewolf
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1983

Cyclops
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Cytonic
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Camel Bookmobile
Masha Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Camp of the Saints
Jean Raspail, Transl. Ethan Rundell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Candy Smash
Jacqueline Davies

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Cardturner
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Care and Management of Lies
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Caretaker
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

The Carrying
Ada Limón

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

The Cartel
Don Winslow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Carter Family
David Lasky, Frank M. Young

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

The Casanova
T. L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021