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Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Laila Lalami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Confess
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Confessions
Saint Augustine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 400

Confessions of a Closet Catholic
Sarah Darer Littman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
Alexandra Potter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Confessions of a Mask
Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

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 English Opium-Eater & Other Writings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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

Confessions of the Dead
James Patterson, J.D. Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Confessions on the 7:45
Lisa Unger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Confessor
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Confucius
Yasushi Inoue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Congo
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Congo: een geschiedenis
Michael Crichton, David Van Reybrouck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Conjectures and Refutations
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Connected
Kim Karr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Connections in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Consent to Kill
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Consequences
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Considerations on France
Joseph de Maistre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Consider Me
Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Consilience
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Consolation
Corinne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Consolation Of Philosophy
Boethius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 524

Console Wars
Blake J. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Conspiracy in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Conspiracy of Fools
Kurt Eichenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Conspirata (Cicero, #2)
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Constantine's Sword
James Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Consumed (Firefighters, #1)
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Contact
Carl Sagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Contagious
Jonah Berger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Contagious (Infected, #2)
Scott Sigler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Jonah Berger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Control or Economic Law
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata, Transl. Ginny Tapley Takemori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Conversations of Socrates
Xenophon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Conversations With Myself
Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Convicted
Aleatha Romig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Conviction
Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cooking for Picasso
Camille Aubray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
Gary Kamiya

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Cool Hand Luke
Donn Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Coolie
Mulk Raj Anand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Gaiutra Bahadur

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Cooper Union Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1860

Coop Knows the Scoop
Taryn Souders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Copenhagen
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
Ed McBain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Copperhead
Alexi Zentner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Copper Sunrise
Bryan Buchan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Cop Town
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Coraline
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Corelli's Mandolin
Louis De Bernières

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Corinne, or Italy
Madame de Staël

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Cornelli
Johanna Spyri

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Corpus Hermeticum: The Divine Pymander
Hermes Trismegistus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Corrag
Susan Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Corregidora
Gayl Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Corrupt
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Corrupt (Devil's Night)
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Brian Klaas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Corsair (Oregon Files, #6)
Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Corydon
André Gide, Richard Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1965

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Cosmos
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Ann Druyan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Cost
Roxana Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cost of Living
Martyna Majok

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Cotillion
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Cottage by the Sea
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Cotton Comes To Harlem
Chester Himes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964