Book club recommendations & reading guides for books beginning with "C".

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Cahokia Jazz : A Novel
by Francis Spufford
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025

From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, ...

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California
by Edan Lepucki
Hardcover: Jul 2014
Paperback: Jul 2015

A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect ...

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Calling Me Home
by Julie Kibler
Hardcover: Feb 2013
Paperback: Jan 2014

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.

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The Camel Bookmobile
by Masha Hamilton
Hardcover: Apr 2007
Paperback: Apr 2008

The Camel Bookmobile follows an American librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern Kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece of her heart. A compelling novel that shows how one life can change many, in spite of ...

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The Candy House : A Visit from the Goon Squad #2
by Jennifer Egan
Hardcover: Apr 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023

From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad - an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for ...

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Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Apr 2002

An epic novel of four generations of African-American women based on one family's meticulously researched past.

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Cantoras
by Caro De Robertis
Hardcover: Sep 2019
Paperback: Jun 2020

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.

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The Carnivorous Carnival : Book the Ninth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Jan 2003

In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children are on the run having been falsely accused of murder, so they hide in the carnival, as part of Madame Lulu's House of Freaks. Ages 9+

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My Friends
by Hisham Matar

The title of Hisham Matar's My Friends takes on affectionate but mournful tones as its story unfolds...
James
by Percival Everett

The Oscar-nominated film American Fiction (2023) and the Percival Everett novel it was based on, ...
But the Girl
by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

Jessica Zhan Mei Yu's But the Girl begins with the real-life disappearance of Malaysia Airlines ...
Patriot
by Alexei Navalny

On the 17th of January, 2024, colleagues of Alexei Navalny posted a message to his Instagram account...