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A Damsel in Distress
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

A Dance with the Fae Prince
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Dangerous Business
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Dangerous Collaboration
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

A Dangerous Fortune
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Dangerous Man
Anne Brooke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Dangerous Mourning (William Monk, #2)
Anne Perry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

A Dangerous Path
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

A Dangerous Place
Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Danger to Herself and Others
Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Daring Sacrifice (An Uncertain Choice, #2)
Jody Hedlund

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

A Dark-Adapted Eye
Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

A Dark and Stormy Murder (A Writer's Apprentice Mystery, #1)
Julia Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2)
Val McDermid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Dark Inheritance (Unicorne Files, #1)
Chris d'Lacey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

A Darkling Plain (The Hungry City Chronicles, #4)
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

A Darkling Sea
James L. Cambias

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Dark Lure
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Darkness At Sethanon
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1986

A Darkness More Than Night
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Dark Night's Work
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1863

A Dawn of Onyx
Kate Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Day in the Dark and Other Stories
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Terry McMillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

A Day Like This
Kelley McNeil

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

A Day of Fallen Night
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Deal In Wheat
Frank Norris

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1903

A Deal with the Devil (The Grumpy Devils, #1)
Elizabeth O'Roark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

A Death in Vienna
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

A Descent into the Maelstrom
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1841

A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
Arkady Martine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Diary from Dixie
Mary Boykin Chestnut

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1866

A Different Blue
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

A Different Drummer
William Melvin Kelley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Different Sky
Meira Chand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Disability History of the United States
Kim E. Nielsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Discourse on Political Economy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1755

A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

A Divine Image
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1789

A Division of the Spoils (The Raj Quartet, #4)
Paul Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

A Dog Called Kitty
Bill Wallace

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

A Dog Named Christmas
Greg Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Dog's Journey (A Dog's Purpose, #2)
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

A Dog's Life
Peter Mayle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Dog's Perfect Christmas
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Dog's Way Home
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

A Door Between Us
Ehsaneh Sadr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1)
Joan Slonczewski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

A Door Near Here
Heather Quarles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

A Dowry of Blood
S. T. Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans (A Dragon's Guide, #1)
Laurence Yep, Joanne Ryder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A Dream Deferred
Shelby Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson
William Morris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1886

A Dream of Kings
Harry Mark Petrakis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Dream Play
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

A Drink before the War
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Dry White Season
André Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

A Duet For Home
Karina Yan Glaser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

A Dying Colonialism
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

A Dying Fall
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dachshund Through the Snow (Andy Carpenter, #20)
David Rosenfelt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dactyl Hill Squad (Dactyl Hill Squad, #1)
Daniel José Older

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)
Jean Webster, Aigars Truhins, Antra Vagnere, Dagnija Dreika, Džīna Vebstere

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1912

Daddy's Girl
Charlotte Vale Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Daddy's Little Girl
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Daddy Was a Number Runner
Louise Meriwether

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

Dad Is Fat
Jim Gaffigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Daemon (Daemon, #1)
Daniel Suarez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Daisy Haites
Jessa Hastings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Daisy Miller
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1878

Damaged
H.M. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Damaged Like Us (Like Us, #1)
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Damage Done
Amanda Panitch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Damaged (Rosato & DiNunzio #4)
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021