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The Cinnamon Peeler
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1992

The Circle
Dave Eggers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Circle Game
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jiménez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

The Circular Ruins
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1940

The City and the City
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The City of God
Augustine of Hippo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 426

The City of God
Saint Augustine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 426

The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Clash of Civilizations
Samuel Huntington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1993

The Clay Marble
Minfong Ho

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

The Clean House
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Client
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Climate Book
Greta Thunberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Clockmaker's Daughter
Kate Morton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Cloisters
Katy Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Clouds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Club
Ellery Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Coffee Trader
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Cold Dish
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cold Equations
Tom Godwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1954

The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Cold Millions
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Collected Regrets of Clover
Mikki Brammer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

The Collector
John Fowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Colonel
Carolyn Forché

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Colored Museum
George C. Wolfe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Color of Magic
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Color of My Words
Lynn Joseph

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Color of Water
James McBride

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

The Colour Out of Space
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

The Comfort Book
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Coming on of Night
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1848

The Competitive Advantage Of Nations
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Compound
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Condemnation of Blackness
Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1845

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Confession
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1782

The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Sara Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Congo
Vachel Lindsay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Conqueror Worm
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1843

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

The Control of Nature
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Conundrum of the Workshops
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

The Convent Threshold
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

The Conversion of the Jews
Philip Roth

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1958

The Cop and the Anthem
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

The Coquette
Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

The Corporation
Joel Bakan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1937

The Cost of Knowing
Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Country Husband
John Cheever

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1962

The Country Wife
William Wycherley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1675

The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Courage of Sarah Noble
Alice Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Courage That My Mother Had
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

The Cousins
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Coworker
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Crazy Woman
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Cremation of Sam McGee
Robert W. Service

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1907

The Cricket In Times Square
George Selden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1960

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Cross and the Switchblade
Elizabeth Sherrill, David Wilkerson, John Sherrill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1963

The Crossing
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Crossover
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Crucible
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953