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The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

The Complete Stories and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1984

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

The Compound
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Computer Connection
Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Concept of Time
Martin Heidegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Concubine
Elechi Amadi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Concubine's Children
Denise Chong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Condemnation of Blackness
Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1845

The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Confabulist
Steven Galloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

The Confession
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Confession Club (Mason, #3)
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Confession of Saint Patrick
Patrick of Ireland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1782

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
C.W. Gortner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Sara Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Confessions of Lady Nijō
Lady Nijō

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Confessions of X
Suzanne M. Wolfe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, #3)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Confidant
Hélène Grémillon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Confidential Clerk
T.S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

The Conformist (Italia)
Alberto Moravia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Confusion
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Confusions of Young Törless
Robert Musil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Conjure Woman
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1899

The Connellys of County Down
Tracey Lange

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Conquest of Bread
Pyotr Kropotkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 58

The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction
Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Russell Kirk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Thomas Ligotti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Constant Gardener
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Constant Princess
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Consuming Fire
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Contender
Robert Lipsyte

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Contrast
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1801

The Control of Nature
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Convalescent
Jessica Anthony

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Convenient Marriage
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Cookbook Collector
Allegra Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Copper Beech
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium, #2)
Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Coppersmith Farmhouse
Devney Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Coquette
Hannah Webster Foster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1797

The Coral Island
Robert Michael Ballantyne

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1857

The Corbaccio, or, The Labyrinth of Love
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Core
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Corn Grows Ripe (Puffin Newbery Library)
Dorothy Rhoads

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
Colin Cotterill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Corporation
Joel Bakan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
Hassan Blasim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Corsican Brothers
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1863

The Cossacks and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

The Cost of Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1937

The Cost of Knowing
Brittney Morris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
Deborah Levy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Council of Animals
Nick McDonell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Counselors
Jessica Goodman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Counterfeiters
André Gide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Counterlife
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Countess
Rebecca Johns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Countess Cathleen
W.B. Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1844

The Country Between Us
Carolyn Forché

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1982

The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

The Country in the City
Richard A. Walker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Country of the Blind
H.G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1896

The Country Wife
William Wycherley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1675

The Country Without a Post Office
Agha Shahid Ali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Courage of Sarah Noble
Alice Dalgliesh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013