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Cool Machine
Cool Machine (2026) is Colson Whitehead's novel concluding the Harlem Trilogy, following fence Ray Carney and Pepper through 1981, 1983, and 1986 New York, including a Waldorf Astoria heist; a New York Times bestseller and Kirkus Prize finalist.
Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Coplas por la muerte de su padre, also cited as Coplas a la muerte de su padre, is a Castilian elegy of forty stanzas by Jorge Manrique.
Coraline
Coraline, Neil Gaiman's 2002 children's dark-fantasy novella, follows a girl trapped by the button-eyed Other Mother behind a door in her new house; it won the Hugo and Bram Stoker Awards and became Henry Selick's 2009 LAIKA stop-motion film.
Corduroy (book)
Corduroy, Don Freeman's 1968 Viking Press picture book, follows a teddy bear in green overalls searching a department store at night for his missing button before Lisa buys him; about 20 million copies sold, sequel A Pocket for Corduroy (1978).
Cormoran Strike
Cormoran Strike is the private detective protagonist of J.K. Rowling's crime series written as Robert Galbraith, starting with The Cuckoo's Calling (2013). An ex-RMP veteran with a prosthetic leg, he runs a London agency with Robin Ellacott; eight novels exist plus a BBC adaptation.
Corpo
Corpo is a 1984 poetry collection by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published by Editora Record, treating love, death, and the environment through the body.
Corps et biens
Corps et biens is a 1930 collection of poems by the French surrealist poet Robert Desnos, published by Gallimard in Paris and spanning his surrealist decade, 1919 to 1929.
Correspondances
"Correspondances" is an 1857 sonnet by Charles Baudelaire in Les Fleurs du mal, imagining nature as a temple where perfumes, colors, and sounds answer one another.
Corto Maltese
Corto Maltese, also Una ballata del mare salato, is a Hugo Pratt comic series begun in 1967 about a wandering early-20th-century sailor-adventurer, published by Casterman and Rizzoli and continued after 2015.
Corum Jhaelen Irsei
Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe, is a Michael Moorcock fantasy hero and Eternal Champion incarnation, last of the Vadhagh, hero of the 1971 Swords Trilogy and the 1973-74 Prince with the Silver Hand trilogy.
Coruscant
Coruscant is the fictional capital planet of Star Wars: an ecumenopolis, or planet-wide city, of about 5,127 levels and trillions of people. Named by Timothy Zahn in 1991's Heir to the Empire, it debuted on screen in 1997.
Cosette
Cosette (Euphrasie, "the Lark") is the daughter of Fantine in Victor Hugo's 1862 Les Misérables, exploited by the Thénardiers, rescued and adopted by Jean Valjean, and married to Marius Pontmercy; her Bayard-derived image is the musical's logo.
Cosmic Songs
Cosmic Songs (Písně kosmické) is an 1878 poetry collection by the Czech writer Jan Neruda, whose 38 poems celebrate human discovery of the universe and became an immediate success.
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics (Le cosmicomiche) is a 1965 short story collection by Italo Calvino. Each story opens with a scientific fact and is narrated by Qfwfq, a being as old as the universe.
Cosmos (manga)
Cosmos is a Japanese science fiction manga by Ryuhei Tamura, serialized since 2023, following a high schooler who can see through lies as an alien insurance investigator trainee.
Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were annual British literary prizes for writers living in the UK or Ireland, awarded from 1971 until 2021.
Count Fenring
Count Hasimir Fenring, fictional Dune character: distaff Corrino cousin, closest friend of Emperor Shaddam IV, Imperial Agent on Arrakis, Siridar-Absentia of Caladan, failed Kwisatz Haderach invisible to prescience.
Counting the Stars at Night
Counting the Stars at Night (별 헤는 밤, Byeol heneun bam) is a Korean lyric poem written by Yun Dong-ju in 1941 and published after his death in 1948.
Countryballs
Countryballs, also called Polandball, are satirical user-generated internet comics of countries drawn as flag-painted balls with two white eyes, no mouth, and broken English (Engrish). Originated around September 2009 on Krautchan; main hub r/polandball.
Court of Owls
Court of Owls: DC Comics secret society of Gotham elites created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, first appearing in Batman Vol. 2 #2 (December 2011); employs owl-masked members and centuries-old Talon assassins, distinct from the 1960s Council of Owls.
Cousin Bette
Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette) is an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac, in which the poor, resentful Lisbeth Fischer plots the destruction of her Paris relatives.
Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion is L. Frank Baum's talking African lion from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), a self-described coward who acts bravely; also Brrr in Maguire's Wicked and the Courageous Lion in Volkov's Magic Land.
Cozy fantasy
Cozy fantasy, also called cottage fantasy, is a low-stakes, comfort-focused fantasy subgenre codified by Travis Baldree's 2022 Legends & Lattes; defined by found family, gentle domestic stakes, and cozy-mystery-derived boundaries rather than epic conflict.
Crabwalk
Crabwalk (German: Im Krebsgang) is a 2002 novella by Günter Grass about the 1945 sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and its place in German memory.
Craig Johnson (author)
Craig Allen Johnson (born 1961) is the American mystery novelist of the Walt Longmire Wyoming sheriff series, basis of the Longmire TV series, Owen Wister Award 2025, Ucross resident.
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian is a 1926 book telling the life of Sam Blowsnake, a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) man, edited by anthropologist Paul Radin.
Crazy Rich Asians (novel)
Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan's 2013 Doubleday debut novel (Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, Volume 1), a social satire of Rachel Chu meeting Nick Young's old-money Singapore family; over four million US copies sold and a 2018 film adaptation.
Create Dangerously
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work is a 2010 essay collection by Edwidge Danticat, published by Princeton University Press, examining art made from exile and crisis.
Creation Lake
Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner's fourth novel (Scribner, September 3, 2024; 416 pages), about ex-FBI agent Sadie Smith infiltrating the Le Moulin eco-activist commune in Guyenne, France, whose cave-dwelling mentor Bruno Lacombe emails about Neanderthals. Booker 2024 shortlist; National Book Award 2024 longlist; distinct from any other work of the same name.
Creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction (CNF), also called literary or narrative nonfiction, is a genre of true stories told with fiction's narrative techniques, spanning memoir, personal essay, and literary journalism; defined by factual accuracy plus vivid craft, with roots in New Journalism and a journal founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993.