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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

Contrapposto
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Corrections in Ink
Keri Blakinger

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Count the Ways
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Cover Story
Susan Rigetti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Cover Story
Celia Laskey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

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 in Love
Laura Pavlov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies From a Life at Disney
Lee Cockerell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Creation
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Creativity
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Cress
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Cress Watercress
Gregory Maguire

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Crier's War
Nina Varela

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Criminal
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Criminal Destiny
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

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

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1844

Critique of Judgment
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1790

Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Crooked
Brian M. Wiprud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Crooked Little Heart
Anne Lamott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

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

Cross Her Heart
Melinda Leigh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Crossroads of Ravens
Andrzej Sapkowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Crucible
John Sayles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Crucible
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cruel Beauty
Rosamund Hodge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Cruel Crown
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2016

Cruel Seduction
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Crush
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Crux
Gabriel Tallent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Cryptid Hunters
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Cuba 15
Nancy Osa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003