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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

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

Each Tiny Spark
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Early in the Morning
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Earth Abides
George R. Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Earthquake Terror
Peg Kehret

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

East Coker
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Easter, 1916
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Easter Wings
George Herbert

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

East Lynne
Henry Wood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

East of Eden
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Eat a Bowl of Tea
Louis Chu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Eaters Of The Dead
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Eating Alone
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Eating Together
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Eat to Beat Disease
William W. Li

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Ebb
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Echo
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Echo Mountain
Lauren Wolk

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Alfred W. Crosby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Janisse Ray

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1843

Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946

Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker
Charles Brockden Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1799

Edge
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Editha
William Dean Howells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1906

Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
Esmé Raji Codell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Edward II
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

Efrén Divided
Ernesto Cisneros

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Efuru
Flora Nwapa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Eggs
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Ego Is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
Ryan Holiday

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Ego Tripping
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1963

Eight Cousins
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1874

Eight Hundred Grapes
Laura Dave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Eight Perfect Murders
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Either/Or
Elif Batuman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Elantris
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

El Deafo
Cece Bell

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Eldest
Christopher Paolini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Eleanor and Park
Rainbow Rowell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Electra
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 450

Electra
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Electric Idol
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Elegy for the Native Guards
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1751

Elena
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

Elena Vanishing
Clare B. Dunkle, Elena Dunkle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2015

Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
Vicki Constantine Croke

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Elephant Run
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Elevation: A Novel
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2018

Eleven
Sandra Cisneros

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1991

Eleven
Tom Rogers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

El Filibusterismo
José Rizal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1891

Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Eliza and Her Monsters
Francesca Zappia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Elizabeth is Missing
Emma Healey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Barbara Ransby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Ellen Outside the Lines
A. J. Sass

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022