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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

Dry September
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

Dubliners
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1914

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 of Snow
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Dutchman
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Jonathan M. Metzl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Transl. Megan McDowell, Mariana Enríquez

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2009

The Darkest Child
Delores Phillips

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Dark Forest
Transl. Joel Martinsen, Liu Cixin

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
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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 Jackal
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Jim DeFede

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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
Tamara Payne, Les 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 Deal
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

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 Gap: How Inequality Kills
David A. Ansell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Deer and the Dragon
Piper CJ

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Defence of Poesy
Philip Sidney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1595

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
Stephanie Kelton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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 Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

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 the Dark Water
Stuart Turton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Devil And Tom Walker
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1824

The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Valerie Bauerlein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

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 Devils
Joe Abercrombie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Diamond Of Darkhold
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008