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Caging Skies
Christine Leunens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cain's Jawbone
E. Powys Mathers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cajas de Carton
Francisco Jiménez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Cakes and Ale
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Cal
Bernard Maclaverty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Calamity
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Calamity Jack (Rapunzel's Revenge, #2)
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Calculated in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Caleb's Story (Sarah, Plain and Tall #3)
Patricia MacLachlan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Caleb Williams
William Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1794

Calendar Girl: Volume One
Audrey Carlan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Caliban’s War
James S. A. Corey, James S.A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Caliban Upon Setebos
Robert Browning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Calico Bush
Rachel Field

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Calico Captive
Elizabeth George Speare

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1957

Calico Girl
Jerdine Nolen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Calico Joe
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

California
Edan Lepucki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Caligula
Albert Camus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1)
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
John le Carré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Calling for a Blanket Dance
Oscar Hokeah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Calling Me Home
Julie Kibler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Calling on Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
David Isay, Maya Millett

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Call it Courage
Armstrong Sperry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1940

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1934

Call It What You Want
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Call Me American
Abdi Nor Iftin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Call Me By Your Name
André Aciman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Call Me Evie
J.P. Pomare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Call Me Irresistible
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Call Me Maria
Judith Ortiz Cofer

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

Call Me Zelda
Erika Robuck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis, Bing West

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Call the Canaries Home
Laura Barrow

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Call Your Daughter Home
Deborah Spera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Calm: Calm the Mind. Change the World
Michael Acton Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Calypso
David Sedaris and Hachette Audi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes, Richard Howard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Camino Island
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Camino Winds
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Camp Zero
Michelle Min Sterling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Canada
Richard Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Canary Girls
Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Candide
Voltaire

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1759

Candidly Cline
Kathryn Ormsbee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Candor
Pam Bachorz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Candyfreak
Steve Almond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Cane
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Cane River
Lalita Tademy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Canne al vento
Grazia Deledda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Cannery Row
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

Cannibale
Didier Daeninckx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Can't Escape Love (Reluctant Royals, #2.6)
Alyssa Cole

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

Can't Get There from Here
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Canto General
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Cantoras
Carolina De Robertis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
Jeff Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Anita Rau Badami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Can You Keep a Secret?
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Cape Fear
John D. MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Cape May
Chip Cheek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Capitalism And Freedom
Milton Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1942

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Captain Blood: His Odyssey
Rafael Sabatini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

Captain Correlli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Captain Nobody
Dean Pitchford

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Captain's Fury
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Captivate
Carrie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Captivated by You
Sylvia Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
Vanessa Van Edwards

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
C.S. Pacat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Captive Trail
Susan Page Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Captured
Erica Stevens

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering
David A. Kessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016