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Clarice Starling
Clarice Starling is the fictional FBI-agent protagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs, played by Jodie Foster, Julianne Moore, and Rebecca Breeds; known for her Hannibal Lecter interviews, the Buffalo Bill case, and the lambs trauma.
Claro Enigma
Claro Enigma is a 1951 book of poems by the Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, containing 41 poems and marking a turn toward darker, classical forms.
Class of '09 (franchise)
Class of '09: dark-comedy visual novel franchise by Max Field (SBN3) and Wrath Club, following Nicole in a late-2000s American high school; three games (2021-2024), a Kickstarter-funded anime, and a 2026 puzzle game; unrelated to the FX series.
Classic book
A classic book is an enduring, exemplary literary work recognized through readership, school use, canon lists, and publisher classics series. The term traces to Latin auctores classici; canon lists and reader-review data show how contested the label remains.
Classic Chinese Novels
Classic Chinese novels: Ming-Qing vernacular long fiction in the chaptered zhanghui form, centered on the Four Great Classical Novels (三国演义, 水浒传, 西游记, 红楼梦), their canonization, and worldwide translation.
Classic of Poetry
The Classic of Poetry (Shijing, or Book of Odes) is China's earliest poetry anthology: 305 anonymous poems of the Zhou period, traditionally arranged by Confucius.
Classics
Classics, also called classical studies, is the study of classical antiquity, traditionally the Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and art read in Ancient Greek and Latin.
Classroom of the Elite (ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ)
Classroom of the Elite (Yōkoso Jitsuryoku Shijō Shugi no Kyōshitsu e) is a Japanese light novel series by Syougo Kinugasa about students at a meritocratic Tokyo high school.
Claude Frollo
Claude Frollo (Dom Claude Frollo) is the archdeacon of Notre-Dame and adoptive father of Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, a scholar whose passion for Esmeralda leads to her death; film versions turned him into a judge.
Cleanness
Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse; also known as Purity) is a late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative poem attributed to the Pearl Poet, retelling biblical stories such as Noah's flood and Belshazzar's feast.
Clear and Present Danger
Clear and Present Danger: Tom Clancy's 1989 Putnam technothriller, a Jack Ryan series novel (cataloged as #6) about a covert US war against Colombian drug cartels, adapted as the 1994 Harrison Ford film.
Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day is a 1980 novel by Anita Desai about the Das siblings confronting memory and estrangement in their Old Delhi family home.
Clementine literature
Clementine literature (Pseudo-Clementines, Klementia): pseudonymous early Christian novels attributed to Clement of Rome, comprising the Greek Homilies, Rufinus's Latin Recognitions, and epitomes, derived from the lost Circuits of Peter.
Cleopatra Ode
The Cleopatra Ode is a Latin lyric poem by Horace, Odes 1.37, celebrating Cleopatra's defeat by Octavian at Actium and her suicide in 30 BCE.
Clevatess
Clevatess (クレバテス-魔獣の王と赤子と屍の勇者-) is Yuji Iwahara's dark fantasy manga on LINE Manga since 2020, adapted by Lay-duce into a 12-episode anime premiering July 2, 2025, with a second season from July 8, 2026, about a beast king raising a human baby.
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a children's character created by Norman Bridwell and published by Scholastic in 1963, with over 134 million books in print, PBS TV series (2000, 2019), and a 2021 live-action film.
Cligès
Cligès is an Arthurian romance in Old French verse by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1176: 6,664 octosyllabic lines blending Arthurian Britain with a Byzantine setting in Constantinople.
Climate fiction
Climate fiction, commonly abbreviated cli-fi, is fiction addressing climate change and its impacts, coined by Dan Bloom in 2007 to distinguish it from science fiction.
Climbing High
"Climbing High" (登高, Deng gao) is an eight-line poem by Du Fu, written in 767 at Kuizhou and traditionally ranked first of all seven-character regulated verse.
Closer (Dennis Cooper novel)
Closer (1989) is Dennis Cooper's first novel, published by Grove Press, opening the five-book George Miles cycle about a passive gay teen in suburban Los Angeles; it won the Ferro-Grumley Award and was reissued by Serpent's Tail in 2023.
Cloud Atlas (novel)
Cloud Atlas is a 2004 novel by David Mitchell made of six nested stories, from an 1850 Pacific voyage to a post-apocalyptic future, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet (1991) is Tim Winton's fifth novel, about the Pickles and Lamb families sharing a haunted Perth house, 1943–1963. Miles Franklin winner, 200,000+ Australian sales, top-ranked in national polls, adapted for stage, TV, and opera.
Clues in detective fiction
Clues in detective fiction: textual details pointing to a crime's solution, central to the Golden Age clue-puzzle and fair-play rules of Van Dine (1928) and Knox (1929), with red herrings as deliberate false clues.
Clytemnestra (novel)
Clytemnestra (2023) is Costanza Casati's debut feminist retelling of the Greek queen who kills Agamemnon; a Sunday Times bestseller sold in 20 territories and Glass Bell Award winner.
Cocoon (manga)
cocoon is a 2010 single-volume josei war manga by Machiko Kyō (今日マチ子), serialized in Elegance Eve and published by Akita Shoten, about Okinawan student nurses; jury-recommended at the Japan Media Arts Festival, adapted for stage and NHK anime (2025), and issued in English by VIZ Signature in 2026.
Codename Villanelle
Codename Villanelle is a 2014-2016 ebook novella serial by Luke Jennings, collected as a novel and the first book of the Killing Eve series, about assassin Villanelle and MI5 officer Eve Polastri; it inspired the BBC America series starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer.
Codex Durán
Codex Durán is an illustrated sixteenth-century manuscript preserving Dominican friar Diego Durán's three-part account of Aztec history, religion, and calendar, held at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid.
Codex Ixtlilxochitl
The Codex Ixtlilxochitl is an early 17th-century Mexican pictorial manuscript at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a ritual calendar of Tenochtitlan's feasts attributed to Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl.
Codex Magliabechiano
The Codex Magliabechiano is a sixteenth-century Hispano-Mexican pictorial manuscript of Aztec religion and ritual, held at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence and named for the library's Magliabechiano collection.
Codex Manesse
Codex Manesse, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Cod. Pal. germ. 848), is a Zurich illuminated manuscript of ca. 1300-1340 holding about 6,000 Middle High German strophes by 140 poets with 137 full-page poet miniatures; over half its texts are uniquely preserved, and it entered UNESCO Memory of the World in 2023.