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Disclaimer
Renée Knight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1637

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1755

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Discovering Wes Moore
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2012

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Dispatches
Michael Herr

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Displacement
Kiku Hughes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2020

Divergent
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Divinity School Address
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

Doctor Sleep
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Does It Hurt?
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Dog Man
Dav Pilkey

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

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Dog Man Unleashed
Dav Pilkey

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

Dogsong
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

Dogtown
Gennifer Choldenko, Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Doll Bones
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

Dominicana
Angie Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Done and Dusted
Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla y Moral

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1844

Do Not Disturb
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1605

Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering
Joseph Nguyen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Don't Forget to Write: A Novel
Goodman Sara Confino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Don't Let Her Stay
Nicola Sanders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Dorothy Must Die
Danielle Paige

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Dothead
Amit Majmudar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Indemnity
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1867

Downsiders
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Down the Drain
Julia Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Down The Rabbit Hole
Holly Madison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Do You Remember?
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dracula
Bram Stoker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2020

Dragon Pearl
Yoon Ha Lee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Dragons in a Bag
Zetta Elliott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Dragonwings
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Dread Nation
Justina Ireland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dreamland
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Dreamland
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dreamland Burning
Jennifer Latham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1
Cao Xueqin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1760

Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Dreams
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Dreams
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Dreams
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Dreams
Helen Hunt Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Dreams in a Time of War
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Fatema Mernissi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Dream State
Eric Puchner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Drenched in Light
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Dress Coded
Carrie Firestone

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1837

Drinking: A Love Story
Caroline Knapp

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
ZZ Packer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink

Fiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
Robert Bly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Drown
Junot Díaz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421
T. J. Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Drum Dream Girl
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015