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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race is a 2010 nonfiction book by horror writer Thomas Ligotti, arguing that conscious existence is intrinsically bad and later cited as an influence on True Detective.
The Constant Prince
The Constant Prince is a 1629 drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca about Prince Don Fernando, who dies in Moorish captivity rather than surrender Ceuta.
The Continental Op
The Continental Op is the nameless private detective Dashiell Hammett created in 1923, who appears in thirty-six stories and the novels Red Harvest and The Dain Curse.
The Coral Island
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean is R. M. Ballantyne's 1857/1858 Victorian boys' adventure novel about Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, shipwrecked in the South Pacific; it inspired Treasure Island and was inverted by Golding's Lord of the Flies.
The Corpse Exhibition
The Corpse Exhibition is a short story collection by Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim portraying dictatorship, war, and occupation in Iraq through a blend of brutal realism and surreal fantasy.
The Corrections
The Corrections is Jonathan Franzen's third novel, published September 4, 2001, about the Lambert family of St. Jude; it won the 2001 National Book Award, sparked the Oprah's Book Club controversy, and is being adapted by Netflix with Meryl Streep.
The Correspondent (novel)
The Correspondent, Virginia Evans's 2025 debut epistolary novel about 73-year-old letter-writer Sybil Van Antwerp of Maryland; Crown, 304 pages; won the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo), Dumas's 1844–46 revenge novel serialised in the Journal des débats: Edmond Dantès, imprisoned in the Château d'If, escapes and destroys Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort.
The Country Girls
The Country Girls is a 1960 novel by Irish writer Edna O'Brien, following Caithleen Brady from rural Clare to Dublin, and the first of her Country Girls trilogy.
The Country of the Pointed Firs
The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 novel by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett, set in the fictional Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing.
The Country Parson
The Country Parson is a prose manual of pastoral theology by English priest and poet George Herbert, written mostly before 1630 and published in 1652, describing the ideal rural clergyman of the Church of England.
The Country Teacher
The Country Teacher (Inaka kyōshi) is a 1909 novel by Tayama Katai following Lin Seizō, a poor young man who becomes a rural substitute teacher in Saitama.
The Country Without a Post Office
The Country Without a Post Office is a 1997 poetry collection by Agha Shahid Ali, his sixth volume, centered on the violence that consumed Kashmir in the 1990s.
The Court of the Dead
The Court of the Dead (2025) by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro is the second Nico di Angelo Adventure, a Percy Jackson spin-off in which Nico, Will, and Hazel protect reformed monsters called mythics at Camp Jupiter.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
The Courtship of Miles Standish is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 narrative poem, published by Ticknor and Fields, retelling the Alden family legend in which Priscilla Mullins tells John Alden, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"
The Cowards
The Cowards (Czech: Zbabělci) is the debut novel by the Czech writer Josef Škvorecký, written in 1948 and 1949 and published in Prague in December 1958 after a ten-year political delay.
The Coworker
The Coworker is a 2023 psychological thriller novel by Freida McFadden, published August 29, 2023 by Hollywood Upstairs Press and Poisoned Pen Press, about sales rep Natalie Farrell and the disappearance of her odd accountant coworker Dawn Schiff at the supplement company Vixed.
The Crab Cannery Ship
The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikōsen) is a 1929 novella by Kobayashi Takiji about laborers on a crab-canning ship who organize a strike, a landmark of Japanese proletarian literature.
The Crack-Up
The Crack-Up is a series of three autobiographical essays by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in Esquire in 1936, describing his breakdown; reprinted in book form in 1945, they became a landmark of American confessional writing.
The Cranes of Ibycus
"The Cranes of Ibycus" (German: Die Kraniche des Ibykus) is an 1797 ballad by Friedrich Schiller in which murdered poet Ibycus's killers betray themselves when cranes appear.
The Credits Roll into the Sea
The Credits Roll into the Sea (Umi ga Hashiru Endroll, 海が走るエンドロール) is John Tarachine's manga about 65-year-old widow Umiko Chino who enrolls in art school to make films; serialized in Mystery Bonita 2020–2025, nine volumes, Manga Taisho nominee, with a 2027 Kyoto Animation film directed by Taichi Ishidate.
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Cremation of Sam McGee is an 1907 narrative ballad by Robert W. Service from Songs of a Sourdough, telling of a Tennessee prospector frozen in the Yukon, cremated on Lake Lebarge, and revived by the fire.
The Crime of Father Amaro
The Crime of Father Amaro (O Crime do Padre Amaro) is an 1875 novel by Eça de Queirós about a forbidden love between a priest and Amélia in Leiria.
The Crimean Sonnets
The Crimean Sonnets (Polish: Sonety krymskie) is an 18-sonnet cycle by the Polish Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, written in 1825–1826 after a journey across Crimea.
The Critic as Artist
The Critic as Artist is an essay by Oscar Wilde arguing that criticism is itself a creative art, first published in 1890 and revised for his 1891 collection Intentions.
The Crow
The Crow is James O'Barr's 1989 black-and-white indie comic about Eric Draven, a murdered musician resurrected by a crow for revenge; published by Caliber, completed by Tundra in 1992, adapted to film in 1994 and 2024.
The Crown Prince Ma-ui
The Crown Prince Ma-ui (마의태자) is a historical novel by the Korean writer Yi Kwang-su, serialized in the newspaper Dong-A Ilbo from 1926 to 1927.
The Cry of Winnie Mandela
The Cry of Winnie Mandela is a 2003 novel by South African writer Njabulo S. Ndebele in which four women who waited for absent husbands converse with Winnie Mandela.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon's short 1966 second novel, in which Oedipa Maas investigates a possible underground mail system, the Tristero, rival to Thurn und Taxis; it ends before any revelation.
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Cuckoo's Calling (also called L'appel du coucou) is a 2013 crime novel by J.K. Rowling published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, first of the Cormoran Strike detective series, unmasked in July 2013 and a bestseller after the reveal.