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Count All Her Bones
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Countdown
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

COUNTDOWN
James Patterson and Brendan DuBois

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2)
Ben H. Winters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Counting on Grace
Elizabeth Winthrop

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Counting the Cost
Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

COUNTING THE COST
Jill Duggar with Derick Dillard and Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Count Me In
Varsha Bajaj

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Count Roderic's Castle, or, Gothic Times
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Country Driving
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Country Girl
Edna O'Brien

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Count the Ways
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Count Your Lucky Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

Courageous
Randy Alcorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
Simone Biles

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Course in General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Court
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Courtesan
Diane Haeger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Courting Mr. Lincoln
Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1)
Kate Elliott

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Court of the Vampire Queen
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Courtroom 302
Steve Bogira

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Cousin Phyllis
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2007

Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cover of Snow
Jenny Milchman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Cover Story
Susan Rigetti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Covet
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cowboy Stuntman
Dean Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Cows
Matthew Stokoe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Coyote America
Dan Flores

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Crabbe
William Bell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Crackback
John Coy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Cracked Kingdom
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Cracker
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Cracking India
Bapsi Sidhwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Cradle and All
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1853

Crank
Ellen Hopkins

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2004

Crash
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Crash & Burn
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Crashed
K. Bromberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crashed (Driven, #3)
K. Bromberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Crashing America
Katia Noyes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Crashing Upwards
S.C. Wynne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Crash into You
Katie McGarry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Crater (Helium-3, #1)
Homer Hickam

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Cratylus
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Crave
Tracy Wolff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Craving
Helen Hardt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Crazy for the Storm
Norman Ollestad

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Crazy Lady! (Trophy Newbery)
Jane Leslie Conly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

Crazy Little Thing (Bell Harbor, #1)
Tracy Brogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Crazy Stupid Bromance
Lyssa Kay Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1932

Creating Black Americans
Nell Irvin Painter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Creation in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
John Cleese

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Creatures of Passage
Morowa Yejide

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Credence
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Creed
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Creed: What Christians Believe and Why
Adam Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Creep
Eireann Corrigan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Crenshaw
Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Crescendo
Becca Fitzpatrick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Cress
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Crick Crack, Monkey (Caribbean Writers Series)
Merle Hodge

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Crier's War (Crier's War, #1)
Nina Varela

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

Crimes Against Nature
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Criminal
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors
Frances Power Cobbe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008