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Dead and Alive
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dead as a Doornail
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)
Jeff VanderMeer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dead Beat
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dead City (Dead City, #1)
James Ponti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Dead End Girl
L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Dead End In Norvelt
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Dead Ever After
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dead Fall
Brad Thor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Dead Heat
Patricia Briggs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Deadhouse Gates
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Dead in Center Field
Paul Engleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead in the Family
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Dead in the Water
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dead Lake
Darcy Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Deadline
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)
Mira Grant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Dead Lions
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deadlocked
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Deadly Decisions
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Deadly Feasts
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Deadly Game (GhostWalkers, #5)
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Deadly Little Secret
Laurie Faria Stolarz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)
Agatha Christie, David Suchet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Dead Man's Island (Henrie O, #1)
Carolyn G. Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead Med
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Dead of Winter
Darcy Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dead Poets Society
N. H. Kleinbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Dead Reckoning
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, #11)
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dead Scared (Lacey Flint, #2)
Sharon J. Bolton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dead Silence
S.A. Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dead Simple (Roy Grace, #1)
Peter James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dead Sleep
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Dead to Her
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dead to You
Lisa McMann

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Dead White Writer on the Floor
Drew Hayden Taylor

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Dead Witch Walking
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Deaf Like Me
Thomas S Spradley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1985

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Deal Breaker
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Dealing with Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Dear Aaron
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Dear and Glorious Physician
Taylor Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dear Ava
Ilsa Madden-Mills

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Dear Bridget, I Want You
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear Child
Romy Hausmann, Jan Smit, Jamie Bulloch, Stéphanie Lux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Committee Members
Julie Schumacher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dear Daughter
Elizabeth Little

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dear Enemy (Daddy-Long-Legs, #2)
Kristen Callihan, Jean Webster

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1915

Dear Evan Hansen
Val Emmich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
Yiyun Li

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love
Mary Calvi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
Ali Wong, Justin Hakuta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear John
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dear Justyce
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Dear Life
Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Dear Martin
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
Victoria Chang

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

Dear Mr. Knightley
Katherine Reay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Dear Mr. You
Mary-Louise Parker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Dear Reader
Tate James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dear Sweet Pea (Dumplin')
Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Dear Wife
Kimberly Belle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Zoe
Philip Beard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
Donna Leon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1949

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Death by Darjeeling (A Tea Shop Mystery, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable… about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Death Cloud
Andrew Lane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Death Comes As Epiphany (Catherine LeVendeur, #1)
Sharan Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death Coming Up The Hill: A Novel
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Death du Jour
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)
Donna Leon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993