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The Divorce
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
April White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Divorce Express
Paula Danziger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1985

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
A.S. Byatt

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

The Doctor (Nashville Neighborhood, #1)
Nikki Sloane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Doctor's Dilemma
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1906

The Doctrine of Fascism
Benito Mussolini

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

The Documents in the Case
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

The Dog of the South
Charles Portis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

The Dogs of Babel
Carolyn Parkhurst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dogs of Riga
Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Dogs of War
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dog Who Danced
Susan Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
Farley Mowat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

The Dollhouse
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Dollhouse Murders
Betty Ren Wright

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Doll in the Garden
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

The Dollmaker
Harriette Simpson Arnow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1954

The Doll People
Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Doll's House
Louise Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dolls' House
Rumer Godden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1947

The Doomsday Key
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe, #41)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Door in the Wall
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Door of No Return
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Door of the Unreal
Gerald Biss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1964

The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

The Door-To-Door Bookstore
Carsten Henn, Transl. Melody Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Do-Over
T.L. Swan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dorito Effect
Mark Schatzker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1846

The Double Bass
Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

The Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #11)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Double Helix
James D. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Double Life of Pocahontas
Jean Fritz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Downstairs Girl
Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Dragon and the George (Dragon Knight, #1)
Gordon R. Dickson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Dragonbone Chair
Tad Williams

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

The Dragon Can't Dance
Earl Lovelace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Dragonet Prophecy
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Dragonfly Sea
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dragon Heir
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Dragon Keeper
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dragon's Bride
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dragons of Blueland
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1951

The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
Daniel Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dragon's Promise
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
Wayetu Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (Tales from the Chocolate Heart, #1)
Stephanie Burgis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)
Arnaldur Indriðason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Alice Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Dream Daughter
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Dreamer
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Illustr. Peter Sis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dream-Hunter
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dreaming Jewels
Theodore Sturgeon, Теодор Стърджън

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Dreaming Void
Peter F. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

The Dream Lover
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dream of a Common Language
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

The Dream of Scipio
Iain Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Dream of Water: A Memoir
Kyoko Mori

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Dream Thieves
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
Mark Arax

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dresden Files: Storm Front: Vol. 1: The Gathering Storm
Jim Butcher, Mark Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dress Lodger
Sheri Holman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Dressmaker
Kate Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dressmaker's Gift
Fiona Valpy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1970

The Drop
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Drought
J.G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Drover's Wife
Henry Lawson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

The Drowned Girls
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Drowner
Robert Drewe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Drowning
Luka Miličević, Camilla Läckberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Drowning Girl
Caitlín R. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Drowning Kind
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Drowning of Arthur Braxton
Caroline Smailes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Drowning Woman
Robyn Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Druid of Shannara
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dry
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Dry Grass of August
Anna Jean Mayhew

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dry Salvages
T.S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941