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Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2008

Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
Dan Ariely, Jeff Kreisler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Doll Bones
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dom
S.J. Tilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Domes of Fire
David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
James C. Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Dominic
L.A. Casey

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Dominicana
Angie Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Dominion
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Doña Bárbara
Rómulo Gallegos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Don Juan
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

Don Juan and Other Plays
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla y Moral

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1844

Do No Harm
Henry Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Henry Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Do Not Become Alarmed
Maile Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Do Not Disturb
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Donovan's Brain
Curt Siodmak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1605

Don Quixote de La Mancha II (Don Quijote de la Mancha, #2)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1615

Don't Call Me Ishmael!
Michael Gerard Bauer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Don't Call Us Dead
Danez Smith

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Don't Cry for Me
Daniel Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
George Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Don't Fear the Reaper (Netherworld, #1)
Michelle Muto

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Don't Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
Jennifer Shannon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Don't Go
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls, #3)
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Don't Let Go
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Don't Let Her Stay
Nicola Sanders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Don't Let Me Go
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Don't Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860–1975
Eva Tulene Watt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Don't Look Back
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Don't Look Behind You
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Don't Look for Me
Wendy Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Don't Point that Thing at Me (Charlie Mortdecai #1)
Kyril Bonfiglioli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Daniel L. Everett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
Richard Carlson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Don't Think of an Elephant!
George Lakoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Don't Turn Around (Persef0ne, #1)
Michelle Gagnon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Don't Wake Up
Liz Lawler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Don't You Forget About Me
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Doomsday Book
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Door to Door
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Doorways in the Sand
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Dopamine Kids
Michaeleen Doucleff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Dope Sick
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Dork in Disguise
Carol Gorman

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1908

Dorothy Day
Kate Hennessy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Dorothy Must Die
Danielle Paige

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Joseph Frank

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Do Tell
Lindsay Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint
Spike Lee, Lisa Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Do the Work
Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Double Cross
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Double Cross (Alex Cross, #13)
James Patterson, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Double Down
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Double Dutch
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Double Fudge
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Double Identity
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Double Indemnity
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Double Time
Olivia Cunning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Doubt: A History
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Dover Beach
Leslie Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Dovey Coe
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Do What You Are
Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Down a Dark Hall
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

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