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Don't Fear the Reaper
Stephen Graham Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Don't Forget to Write: A Novel
Goodman Sara Confino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Don't Let Her Stay
Nicola Sanders

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Don't Let Him In
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Dorothy Must Die
Danielle Paige

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Dothead
Amit Majmudar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Double Down
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Double Dutch
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Double Fudge
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Double Indemnity
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1867

Downsiders
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Down the Drain
Julia Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Down The Rabbit Hole
Holly Madison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Do You Remember?
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dracula
Bram Stoker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2020

Dragonkeeper
Carole Wilkinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Dragon Pearl
Yoon Ha Lee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Dragons and Marshmallows
Asia Citro, Illustr. Marion Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Dragons in a Bag
Zetta Elliott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Dragonslayer
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Dragonwings
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Drama: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Dread Nation
Justina Ireland

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dreamland
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Dreamland
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dreamland Burning
Jennifer Latham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 1
Cao Xueqin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1760

Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Dreams
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Dreams
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Dreams
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Dreams
Helen Hunt Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Dreams in a Time of War
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Fatema Mernissi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Dream State
Eric Puchner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Drenched in Light
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

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
Kate Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink

Nonfiction | 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

Drums of Autumn
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

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

Earthlings
Sayaka Murata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

East, West
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

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