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Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Darth Plagueis

James Luceno

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dash

Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Das Kapital

Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1867

Dating After the End of the World

Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Daughter Of Fortune

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Daughter of Mine

Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughter of No Worlds

Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daughter of the Deep

Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Daughters of Shandong

Eve J. Chung

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughters of the Dust

Julie Dash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

David Walker's Appeal

David Harry Walker

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dawn

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

Dawn

Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Day

Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Daydream

Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Day of Infamy Speech

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Day of Tears

Julius Lester

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa, Transl. Eric Ozawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Days Without End

Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Daytripper

Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Deacon King Kong

James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dead End In Norvelt

Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Dead in the Water

John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Deadline

Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Dead Lions

Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deadly Animals

Marie Tierney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Dead Man Walking

Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead Med

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Dead Men’s Path

Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Donnie Eichar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Dead Poets Society

N. H. Kleinbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Dead Stars

Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania

Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Deaf Like Me

Thomas S Spradley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1985

Dealing with Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Dear Basketball

Kobe Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Dear Debbie

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dear Evan Hansen

Val Emmich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dear Future Generations: Sorry

Prince Ea

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dear Justyce

Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

Dear Reader

Tate James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

dear white america

Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear Zoe

Philip Beard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Death

William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1933

Death and the King's Horseman

Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book

Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Death Be Not Proud

John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Death By Landscape

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Death Cloud

Andrew Lane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Death Coming Up The Hill: A Novel

Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Death Constant Beyond Love

Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

Death in Her Hands

Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Death in the Woods

Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1912

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1949

Death of a Traveling Salesman

Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Death of the Author

Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Death On The Nile

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Death Row

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2025

Death's End

Liu Cixin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Deathwatch

Robb White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Death Without Weeping

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Declaration

Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Declaration of Sentiments

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1848

Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Deenie

Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

Deep and Dark and Dangerous

Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Deep Cuts

Holly Brickley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Deep End

Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

Laurence Gonzales

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Deep Water

Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Deer Hit

Jon Loomis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Defender Of The Faith

Philip Roth

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

Defending Jacob

William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Defy the Night

Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Delicate Condition

Danielle Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Delight in Disorder

Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Delirium

Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Deliverance

James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Cordelia Fine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Demian

Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919