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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 Rabbit Hole
Holly Madison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

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

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

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 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

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

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Dry
Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Dry
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Dubliners
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1914

Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Duma Key
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dumplin
Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Dust
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Dust Child
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dusting
Marilyn Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Dusting
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Dutchman
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin, Transl. Joel Martinsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1900

The Dark Prophecy
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Darling
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Daughter of Invention
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Daughter Of Time
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Catherine Grace Katz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Nat Hentoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Dead
James Joyce

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1914

The Dead
Susan Mitchell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

The Dead and the Gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne, Tamara Payne

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dead Zone
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Dearly Beloved
Cara Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death Cure
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Death of a Government Clerk
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1883

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes, Transl. Alfred J. MacAdam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Death of a Soldier
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
Thomas Malory, Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Death of Santa Claus
Charles Harper Webb

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1967

The Death of the Hired Man
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Death of Woman Wang
Jonathan Spence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1353

The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1889

The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1776

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Deep
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2019

The Deep End
Jeff Kinney

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

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Defence of Poesy
Philip Sidney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1595