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The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1)
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Darkest Part of The Forest
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Darkest Passion
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Darkest Pleasure
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Darkest Secret
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Darkest Seduction
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Darkest Star (Origin, #1)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Darkest Surrender
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Darkest Temptation
Danielle Lori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin, Transl. Joel Martinsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Frigate (Newbery Medal Winner)
Charles Boardman Hawes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1923

The Dark Highlander
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Dark Hills Divide
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

The Dark Hours
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Dark Is Descending
Chloe C. Peñaranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Dark Lady
Akala

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock #1)
Sarah Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Dark Light of Day
T.M. Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Dark Monk
Lee Chadeayne, Oliver Pötzsch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)
Ragnar Jónasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Darkness Outside Us
Eliot Schrefer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Darkness That Comes Before
R. Scott Bakker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dark One
Nikki St. Crowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dark Prophecy
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Dark Secret
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Dark Side
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Side of Nowhere
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Dark Star of Itza: The Story of a Pagan Princess
Alida Sims Malkus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Dark Tide
Andrew Gross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Tower
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dark Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #5)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Darling
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Darling Buds of May
H.E. Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Dating Plan
Sara Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Daughter
Pavlos Matesis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Daughter Of Time
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Daughters of Izdihar
Hadeer Elsbai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Daughters of Madurai
Rajasree Variyar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Daughters of Mars

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Daughters Of The Late Colonel

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1921

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Catherine Grace Katz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Daughter Who Remains
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2026

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The DaVinci Code: A Quest for Answers
Josh McDowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Da Vinci Code: The Young Adult Adaptation
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Day After Roswell
Philip J. Corso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Day After Tomorrow
Allan Folsom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
Charles Lane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Day I Died
Lori Rader-Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Chingiz Aitmatov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Daylight War
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Jim Bishop

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

The Day of Doom, or, a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgement
Michael Wigglesworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1662

The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Day the Cowboys Quit
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day the Falls Stood Still
Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
James Burke

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Jim DeFede

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Nat Hentoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Dead
James Joyce

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1914

The Dead and the Gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne, Tamara Payne

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dead Ex
Jane Corry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Dead Father
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Dead Girls' Dance
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Dead I Know
Scot Gardner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Dead Key
D.M. Pulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
Peter Guardino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)
Colin Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Dead of Night
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1994

The Dead Queens Club
Hannah Capin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dead-Tossed Waves
Carrie Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Dead Zone
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Deal
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Dearly Beloved
Cara Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death Cure
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Death of a President: November 1963
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes, Transl. Alfred J. MacAdam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Death of Bees
Lisa O'Donnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Thomas M. Nichols

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death of Grass
John Christopher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956