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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

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

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

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

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

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

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

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

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