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Coming, Aphrodite!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

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 Roses
Staci Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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

Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Sarah Darer Littman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

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

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Counting on Grace
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Courtesan
Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

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

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

Crash
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Crashing America
Katia Noyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Crooked
Brian M. Wiprud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Crooked River
Shelley Pearsall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Crow Fair: Stories
Thomas McGuane

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Cry of the Kalahari
Delia Owens, Mark Owens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Cuba 15
Nancy Osa

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Curse of the Starving Class
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Curveball
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Custer's Trials
T. J. Stiles

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Cycle of Hope
Tricia Downing

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Cyclops
Clive Cussler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Damsel
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dance Hall Of The Dead
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1968

Dancing After Hours
Andre Dubus II

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters
Jason Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
David Chotjewitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Daring to Drive
Manal Al-Sharif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark At The Crossing
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark Horse
John Fischer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Dark Money
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness in El Dorado
Patrick Tierney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Dark Universe
Daniel F. Galouye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Darwin on Man
Paul H. Barrett, Howard E. Gruber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Das Mädchen Wadjda
Haifaa al-Mansour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Daughter of Persia
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Daughters of the Vicar
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Davita's Harp
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Days of Awe
Achy Obejas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dead in Center Field
Paul Engleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Deadly Feasts
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Deadly Little Secret
Laurie Faria Stolarz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Life
Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990