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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 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, 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

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

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

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

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

Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Damsel
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dance Hall Of The Dead
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1968

Dancing After Hours
Andre Dubus II

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters
Jason Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Danger in the Shadows
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
David Chotjewitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Danse Macabre
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Daring to Drive
Manal Al-Sharif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark and Shallow Lies
Ginny Myers Sain

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Dark At The Crossing
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark Horse
John Fischer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Dark Money
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness in El Dorado
Patrick Tierney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Dark Sisters
Kristi DeMeester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dark Universe
Daniel F. Galouye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Darwin on Man
Howard E. Gruber, Paul H. Barrett

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Das Mädchen Wadjda
Haifaa al-Mansour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Daughter of Persia
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Daughter of the Forest
Juliet Marillier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
Barbara Demick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Daughters of the Vicar
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Davita's Harp
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Day: A Novel
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Daydreamer
Susie Tate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Day of the Dragon King
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Days of Awe
Achy Obejas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dead in Center Field
Paul Engleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Deadly Feasts
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Deadly Little Secret
Laurie Faria Stolarz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Dead Mountain
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dead Voices
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear and Glorious Physician
Taylor Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dear Life
Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Dear Mrs. Bird
AJ Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1949

Death Comes As The End
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death In The Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1933

Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Death Was the Other Woman
Linda L. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008