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A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Catskill Eagle (Spenser, #12)
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Harry Crews, Michael McCurdy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Conspiracy of Paper (Benjamin Weaver, #1)
David Liss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Cool Million: The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

A Country Doctor
Kevin Blahut, Franz Kafka, Zoulfiia Gazeava

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1997

A Crack in the Earth
Haim Watzman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Crime in the Neighborhood
Suzanne Berne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Cure for Night
Justin Peacock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Cure for Suicide
Jesse Ball

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A Curse Dark as Gold
Elizabeth C. Bunce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Caesar (Masters of Rome, #5)
Colleen McCullough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Caged Warrior
Alan Sitomer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Cal
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Calico Joe
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth, Hana Wirth-Nesher, Alfred Kazin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Calypso
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2018

Canada
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, David Burg, Nicholas Bethell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Candor
Pam Bachorz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Candyfreak
Steve Almond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cane River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Cantoras
Carolina De Robertis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cape May
Chip Cheek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Captain Nobody
Dean Pitchford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Captive Trail (Texas Trails, #2)
Susan Page Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
Robert Galbraith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Caricature
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

Carpe Diem
Autumn Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Carrie's War
Nina Bawden

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1993

Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Casino Royale
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
Ian Fleming, Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Cassandra
Pierre De Ronsard, Clive Lawrence

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Cast of Shadows
Kevin Guilfoile

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Cathleen ni Houlihan
William Butler Yeats, W.B. Yeats

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Centennial
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Charles Dickens: A Life
Claire Tomalin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Charm: An Amazing Story of a Little Black Cat
Leyla Atke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Charm City (Tess Monaghan, #2)
Laura Lippman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Charming Billy
Alice McDermott

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Chasing Redbird
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
Donald R. Howard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Check, Please: #Hockey
Ngozi Ukazu

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2018

Chekhov
Henri Troyat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Chesapeake
James A. Michener, James Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
Tom Rob Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Child of Dandelions
Shenaaz Nanji

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Children of a Lesser God
Mark Medoff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man
Ali Eteraz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Children of Gebelawi
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Children of Light
Robert Stone, Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Children Of The Dust
Jerry Stanley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein, Alexander Weinstein

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

Children of the River
Linda Crew

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

Children On Their Birthdays
Truman Capote

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2011

China Boy
Gus Lee

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1994

China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Chinese Handcuffs
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Choke
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Choosing Up Sides
John H. Ritter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Chopin's Funeral
Benita Eisler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Chord: Poems
Rick Barot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Chorus of Mushrooms
Hiromi Goto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Chronology
Zahra Patterson

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Church of Marvels
Leslie Parry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Cinderella
Grimm Brothers

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1812

Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Circling the Sun
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015