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Cassandra in Reverse
Holly Smale

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Castle in the Air
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Castle Rackrent
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1800

Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Catalyst
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Catch and Kill
Ronan Farrow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Frank Abagnale, Stan Redding

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

Caterpillar Summer
Gillian McDunn

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
Andrew X. Pham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Cathedral
Raymond Carver

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1983

Catherine, Called Birdy
Karen Cushman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Cat in the Rain
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1925

Cato, a Tragedy
Joseph Addison

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1713

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Cat Person
Kristen Roupenian

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Catullus 51
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Caucasia
Danzy Senna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
Richard J. Foster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Celestial Bodies
Jokha Alharthi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Celestina
Fernando de Rojas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1499

Celia, A Slave
Melton Alonza McLaurin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Cell One
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Cereus Blooms At Night
Shani Mootoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Chain of Gold
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Channel Firing
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Charles
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1948

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Charlie Thorne And The Last Equation
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Charlotte's Web
E. B. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1952

Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth
Susanna Rowson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

Charming as a Verb
Ben Philippe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2018

Chasing Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Chasing the Falconers
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Chasing Vermeer
Blue Balliett

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Ethan Kross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Checkers
Richard Nixon

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1952

Checking Out
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Check & Mate
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Cherrylog Road
James Dickey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Cher: The Memoir: Part One
Cher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want To Know About Fast Food
Eric Schlosser, Charles Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Chickamauga
Ambrose Bierce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1984

Childhood
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Childhood Memories
William Saphier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Child of God
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Children of Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Children of the Corn
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Tomi Adeyemi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Children’s Rhymes
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

China in Ten Words
Yu Hua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

China Rich Girlfriend
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Chinese Cinderella
Adeline Yen Mah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1999

Chip War
Chris Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Chocolat
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Chomp
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great
Joshua Medcalf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Chosen
Marilyn Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Christabel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Christ in Concrete
Pietro Di Donato

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Christine
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Christmas In Camelot
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Christy
Catherine Marshall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1981

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1542

Chronicles
Jean Froissart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1400

Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Cicero: On Duties (De Officiis)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | BCE

Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cinder
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Cinderella is Dead
Kalynn Bayron

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Circe
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Circus Mirandus
Cassie Beasley

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1946

Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

City of Ashes
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

City of Bones
Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

City of Ghosts
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018