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Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Corregidora
Gayl Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Corrupt
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Corrupt (Devil's Night)
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian Klaas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Cosmos
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Cost of Living
Martyna Majok

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Cottage by the Sea
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cotton Comes To Harlem
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Count All Her Bones
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Countdown
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

COUNTDOWN
James Patterson and Brendan DuBois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Counting on Grace
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Counting the Cost
Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

COUNTING THE COST
Jill Duggar with Derick Dillard and Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Count Me In
Varsha Bajaj

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Antjie Krog

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Count Your Lucky Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Count Zero
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Courageous
Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Simone Biles

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Court
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Courtesan
Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Court of the Vampire Queen
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Courtroom 302
Steve Bogira

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Cover Her Face
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cover Story
Susan Rigetti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Covet
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Coyote America
Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Crabbe
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

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

Cracked Kingdom
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Cracker
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Cradle and All
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Crank
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2004

Crash
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Crash & Burn
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Crashed
K. Bromberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crashing America
Katia Noyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crash into You
Katie McGarry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Crave
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Craving
Helen Hardt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
Pete Earley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski, Chris Tomlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Crazy Stupid Bromance
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creation in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Tom Kelley, David Kelley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
Shakti Gawain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Credence
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Creed
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Creep
Jennifer Hillier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Crenshaw
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Cress
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Crier's War
Nina Varela

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Criminal
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Crimson Bound
Rosamund Hodge

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Crimson Shore
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1788

Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1781

Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Crocodile Tears
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

Crook County
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Crooked
Brian M. Wiprud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004