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

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
Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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 Discarded Image
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

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 Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Distance Between Us
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

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 Dixon Rule
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Janice P. Nimura

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

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 People
Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

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 Do-Over
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1846

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 Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Hotel
Laila Lalami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Drowned World
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Drowning Woman
Robyn Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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