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The Complete Stories and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1984

The Compound
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Darren Hardy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Concrete Blonde
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Concubine's Children
Denise Chong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

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 Confessor
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Confusion
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
Rudolph Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Conjure Woman
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1899

The Connellys of County Down
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Conquest of Bread
Pyotr Kropotkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 58

The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Constant Gardener
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Consuming Fire
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Contender
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Contrast
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1801

The Control of Nature
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael W. Twitty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Copper Beech
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Copper Gauntlet
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

The Coppersmith Farmhouse
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Coquette
Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

The Coral Island
Robert Michael Ballantyne

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1857

The Core
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Corporation
Joel Bakan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

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 Counterlife
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Country in the City
Richard A. Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1896

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 to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Course of Love
Alain de Botton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Courts of Chaos
Roger Zelazny, Tim White

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Cousins
Karen M. McManus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Cove
Catherine Coulter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Coven
Harper L. Woods

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

The Covenant
James A. Michener, Larry McKeever

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Coworker
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Cradle Will Fall
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Crazed
Ha Jin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Crazy Horse Electric Game
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Creation of Patriarchy
Gerda Lerner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Creeping Shadow
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Cricket In Times Square
George Selden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1960

The Crimson Campaign
Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Crimson Crown
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Crimson Petal and the White
Michel Faber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Crippled God
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Cross and the Lynching Tree
James H. Cone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1963

The Crossing
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

The Crossing Places
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Crossover
Kwame Alexander

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

The Crown
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Crown Conspiracy
Michael J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Crown of Embers
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Crown's Game
Evelyn Skye

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Crown Tower
Michael J. Sullivan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Crow Road
Iain Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Crow Trap
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Crucible
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

The Crucifix Killer
Chris Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Cruelest Month
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Cruel Prince
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

The Cry of the Icemark
Stuart Hill

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

The Cryptogram
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Crystal Cave
Mary Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Crystal Shard
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Cuban Affair
Nelson DeMille, Scott Brick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Sara Ahmed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
Erin Meyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979