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The Cloisters
Katy Hays

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Cloning of Joanna May
Franklin Birkinshaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Closers
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Cloud Atlas
Liam Callanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Clouds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Club
Ellery Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Club of Queer Trades
G.K. Chesterton

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

The Coal Tattoo
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Coast of Chicago: Stories
Stuart Dybek

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004

The Cocaine Wars
Paul Eddy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Cockroach
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Cocktail Party
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Margaret O'Mara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Codex
Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Coffee Trader
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Coffin Dancer
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Coin
Yasmin Zaher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
Jessica Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
Amy E. Reichert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)
Adrian McKinty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Cold Dish
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Cold Millions
Jess Walter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Cold Moon
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Collaborators
Michael Idov

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Collapse of Complex Societies
Joseph A. Tainter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Collapse of Western Civilization
Naomi Oreskes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Collected Regrets of Clover
Mikki Brammer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1979

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

The Collective
Alison Gaylin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Collector
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Collector of Treasures
Bessie Head

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Collectors
Jacqueline West

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Collector (The Collector, #1)
K.R. Alexander

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Colonel's Lady
Laura Frantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Colony
Audrey Magee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Colony Club
Shelley Noble

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Colorado Kid
Stephen King, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Colored Museum
George C. Wolfe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Color of Air
Gail Tsukiyama

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Color of a Lie
Kim Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Color of Heaven
Julianne MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Color of Law
Mark Gimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Color of Magic
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Color of My Words
Lynn Joseph

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Color of Water
James McBride

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Colossus and Other Poems
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Colour of Blood
Brian Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Comanche Empire
Pekka Hämäläinen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Comedians
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

The Comet
W.E.B. Du Bois

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

The Comfort Book
Matt Haig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Coming Anarchy
Robert D. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Commitments
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Common Good
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1848

The Communist Manifesto/Wages, Price and Profit
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Company of Wolves
Angela Carter

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

The Comparative Anatomy of Angels
Gustav Theodor Fechner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Competitive Advantage Of Nations
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Complete Collected Poems
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

The Complete Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1976