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Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Cold Storage
David Koepp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cold Vengeance
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Colin Fischer
Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Collapse
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Collide
Gail McHugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Colored Television
Danzy Senna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Columbine
Dave Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Columbus Day
Craig Alanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Coma
Robin Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Come and Get It
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Come Away with Me
Kristen Proby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Come Back to Afghanistan
Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Come Home
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Come Sundown
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Come, Thou Tortoise
Jessica Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cometh the Hour
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Cometh Up as a Flower
Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Come Tumbling Down
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Comfort & Joy
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Comfort Woman
Nora Okja Keller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Coming Apart
Roger Rosenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming, Aphrodite!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming Home
Rosamunde Pilcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Coming Of Age In Mississippi
Anne Moody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

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 for Air
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Coming Up Roses
Staci Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Commonwealth
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Complete Me
J. Kenner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Complete Tales & Poems Of Edgar Allan Po
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poetry Collection | YA | Published in 1895

Comus
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1634

Concealed in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

Conclave
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1846

Concrete Rose
Angie Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Laila Lalami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Confess
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions
Kanae Minato, Transl. Stephen Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Sarah Darer Littman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

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 Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
Jody Gehrman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Confessions on the 7:45
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Confessor
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Congo
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Conjectures and Refutations
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

Connected
Kim Karr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Connections in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Consent to Kill
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Consider Me
Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Consilience
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Consolation
Corinne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Consolation Of Philosophy
Boethius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 524

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Conspiracy in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Contagious
Jonah Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata, Transl. Ginny Tapley Takemori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Convicted
Aleatha Romig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Conviction
Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Coolie
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Coop Knows the Scoop
Taryn Souders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Copenhagen
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Cop Town
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Coraline
P. Craig Russell, Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994