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A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Dark Brown Dog
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1901

A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day of Fallen Night
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Day's Wait
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1710

A Devoted Son
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Disability History of the United States
Kim E. Nielsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Distant Episode
Paul Bowles

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

A Dog Called Homeless
Sarah Lean

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

A Dog Has Died
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

A Dog's Life
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

A Dowry of Blood
S. T. Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

A Drop of Corruption
Robert Jackson Bennett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

A Duet For Home
Karina Yan Glaser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daddy
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Daffodils
William Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Daisy Miller
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1878

Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dance of Thieves
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dancing At Lughnasa
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1782

Daniel Deronda
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1876

Daniel's Story
Carol Matas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Danny, the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1307

Daphnis and Chloe
Longus

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause
Naomi Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Dare to Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dark Age
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Dark Life
Kat Falls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dark Matter
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Darkness Before Dawn
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Darkness of Dragons
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Darkness Visible
William Styron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Dark Night of the Soul
John of the Cross

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1583

Dark Places
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Darkstalker
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

Dark Water Rising
Marian Hale

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dash
Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Das Kapital
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1867

Daughter Of Fortune
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Daughter of Mine
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughter of No Worlds
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daughter of the Pirate King
Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Daughters of Shandong
Eve J. Chung

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughters of the Dust
Julie Dash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

David Walker's Appeal
David Harry Walker

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995

Dawn
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dawn
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

Dawn
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Day
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Daydream
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Day of Infamy Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Day of Tears
Julius Lester

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Transl. Eric Ozawa, Satoshi Yagisawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Days Without End
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Daytripper
Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Deacon King Kong
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dead End In Norvelt
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Deadline
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Dead Lions
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deadly Animals
Marie Tierney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead Men’s Path
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Dead Poets Society
N. H. Kleinbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Dead Stars
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Deaf Like Me
Thomas S Spradley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1985

Dealing with Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018