By Genre of Literary Work - Social realism
- The Citadel
- The City and the Pillar
- The Clayhanger Trilogy
- Clockers
- The Clown
- A Coin in Nine Hands
- The Collected Stories of Colette
- The Collector of Treasures
- The Collegians
- The Color Purple
- Coming Up for Air
- The Company of Women
- Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
- The Conformist
- Consolation
- Contending Forces
- Continental Drift
- Conversation in the Cathedral
- Coonardoo
- Coronation
- A Country Girl
- The Country Girls Trilogy
- The Country House
- The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Country Place
- The Cowards
- Crazy Sunday
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Curse of the Starving Class
- The Custom House
- The Custom of the Country
- The Cypresses Believe in God
- Daddy Was a Number Runner
- The Damnation of Theron Ware
- The Dance and the Railroad
- A Dance to the Music of Time
- Daniel Deronda
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
- Darkness at Noon
- Daughters
- David Copperfield
- Davita's Harp
- Davita’s Harp
- The Day of the Locust
- The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
- The Dead Man
- Dead Men’s Path
- Dear Rafe
- Death of a Hero
- Death of a Salesman
