The Convalescent

by Jessica Anthony

“Jessica Anthony has given a voice—wry, sad, and arresting—to the wounded little homunculus that lives, largely ignored, in all of us, a creature that…

Come In with the Dutchman

by William S. Burroughs

“Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.”—Joan Didion The layered, idiosyncratic screenplay about one of America’s most notorious gangsters…

Coming of Age at the End of Days

by Alice LaPlante

From New York Times bestselling author Alice LaPlante, a mesmerizing novel about faith, grief, and obsession as a complicated, passionate young woman falls in…

The Coming of the Night

by John Rechy

“The question Rechy asks is still potent: Would you die for sex? Rechy’s sizzling literary response . . . is as exciting as it…

Cock and Bull

by Will Self

Will Self has been praised by The New York Times Book Review as “a high-powered satirical weapon” and Cock & Bull is one of…

Cockpit

by Jerzy Kosinski

“A dazzling succession of . . . erotic episodes . . . Cockpit defines itself (as Kosinski does his hero) by the suicidal chances it takes . . . brilliantly defying the limitations of its form.” –The New York Times Book Review…

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction An instant, international bestseller, Charles Frazier’s debut novel of love and peril at the end of…

Cold Skin

by Albert Sánchez Piñol

“Sentence by sentence, Piñol’s first novel offers a tightly crafted allegory of human brutality, both fascinating and repellent.” —Publishers Weekly

Cleopatra Dismounts

by Carmen Boullosa

An enchanting, audacious retelling of the Cleopatra story from a Mexican novelist who is “a luminous writer” and “a masterful spinner of the fantastic.”…

Close to the Bone

by Laurie Stone

“Addresses the memoir in our time and the culture of confession and recovery . . . Reminds us why [Laurie Stone] is one of…

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