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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 Divorce
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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
Fiona Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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
Magda Szabó

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

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 Doors of Perception, and Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1954

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 Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Dunwich Horror
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

The Dutch House
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Eagle
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1851

The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

The Echo Maker
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Echo of Old Books: A Novel
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Eclogues
Virgil

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

The Edible Woman
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1976

The Ego and the Id
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1967

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1852

The Eights
Joanna Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1968

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1912

The Elements: A Novel
John Boyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Elephant In The Room
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Elephant Whisperer
Lawrence Anthony

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Eleventh Plague
Jeff Hirsch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Elite
Kiera Cass

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Embassy of Cambodia
Zadie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Empathy Exams
Leslie Jamison

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

The Emperor Jones
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 1837

The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Nghi Vo

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2020

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
Olga Tokarczuk, Transl. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1922

The Enchanted Greenhouse
Sarah Beth Durst

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Enchantress Of Florence
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The End and the Beginning
Wisława Szymborska

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The Endless Steppe
Esther Hautzig

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1968

The End of Drum-Time
Hanna Pylväinen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Jeffrey Sachs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The End of Science Fiction
Lisel Mueller

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

The End Of The Affair
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Peter Zeihan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The End We Start From
Megan Hunter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Enemy
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1942

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Jon Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Enormous Egg
Oliver Butterworth

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

The Enormous Radio
John Cheever

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1947

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult

The Ersatz Elevator
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan Freedland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022