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Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)
C.J. Cherryh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Down Comes the Night
Allison Saft

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Down London Road
Samantha Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Downright Dencey
Caroline Dale Snedeker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1927

Downriver
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Down River
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Downsiders
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Down the Long Hills
Louis L'Amour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Rosemary Mahoney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Down the Rabbit Hole
Lewis Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1865

Down The Rabbit Hole
Holly Madison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Down the River
Edward Abbey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Down the River Unto the Sea
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Down to Earth
Michael Ernest Sweet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Down to You
M. Leighton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Downward to the Earth
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Do You Want to Start a Scandal
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dracul
Dacre Stoker, J.D. Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dracula
Clive Leatherdale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Dracula's Guest and Other Stories
Bram Stoker

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2006

Dragon Actually
G.A. Aiken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dragon Bones (Hurog, #1)
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dragon Cursed
Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2026

Dragondrums
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1979

Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

Dragon Flight
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Dragonfly
Leila Meacham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dragon Haven
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2020

Dragon In The Harbour (Dragon, #4)
Rosemary Manning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dragonkeeper
Carole Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Dragon Keeper (Dragon Keeper, #1)
Carole Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Dragon of the Red Dawn
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Dragon Pearl
Yoon Ha Lee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Dragon Prince (Dragon Prince, #1)
Melanie Rawn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Dragonsbane (Winterlands, #1)
Barbara Hambly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Dragonsdawn
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
Robert L. Forward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Dragon's Gate
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Dragonsinger
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Dragonslayer
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Dragon Slippers
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Dragon's Oath
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Dragons of Spring Dawning
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1985

Dragons of Winter Night
Steve Kurth, Andrew Dabb, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1985

Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Dragonspell
Donita K. Paul

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Dragon Teeth
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dragonwatch (Dragonwatch, #1)
Brandon Mull

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dragon Wing
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Dragonwings
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Draupadi
Mahasweta Devi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Drawer Boy
Michael Healey

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1999

Draw the Circle
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dr. Bloodmoney
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)
April Daniels

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dream a Little Dream
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dream Chaser
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dream Children
A. N. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dream Days
Kenneth Grahame

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
Brian Herbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Dreamers of the Day
Mary Doria Russell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dreamfever
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dream Hoarders
Richard V. Reeves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dream House
Valerie Laken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dreaming of the Bones (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #5)
Deborah Crombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Dreaming of You
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Dreamland
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Dreamland Burning
Jennifer Latham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Dreamless
Josephine Angelini

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1791

Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1
Cao Xueqin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1760

Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Dream School
Jeffrey Selingo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Dreamseller
Brandon Novak, Joseph Frantz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems
Margarita Engle

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2019

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Dreams in a Time of War
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Sylviane A. Diouf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H.W. Brands

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Dreams of Joy
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dreams of My Russian Summers
Andreï Makine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (Dover Humor)
Winsor McCay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Fatema Mernissi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994