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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Demon in the Freezer
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Demon Lover
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Destructors
Graham Greene

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1954

The Devil and Daniel Webster
Stephen Vincent Benét

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1937

The Devil And Tom Walker
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1824

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Carol F. Karlsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

The Devil's Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Devils (The Possessed)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Charles M. Blow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

The Diameter of the Bomb
Yehuda Amichai

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1947

The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1660

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dinner
Herman Koch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table
Sam Kean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Discourses
Niccolò Machiavelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1531

The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Disquieting Muses
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Distance Between Us
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Division of Labor in Society
Émile Durkheim

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1893

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dollhouse Murders
Betty Ren Wright

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Door in the Wall
Marguerite De Angeli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1949

The Door of No Return
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Double Helix
James D. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Downstairs Girl
Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Dragonet Prophecy
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
Wayetu Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Dreamer
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Illustr. Peter Sis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1877

The Dream of the Rood
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

The Dry
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Duchess and the Jeweller
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1938

The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1614

The Duel
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1891

The Duke and I
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Dunciad
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1743

The Dunwich Horror
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

The Dutch House
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019