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Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Defending Jacob
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Delicate Condition
Danielle Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Deliverance
James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders
Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Devil In A Blue Dress
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Devil on the Cross
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Different Seasons
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Direbound
Sable Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dirt Music
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Disclaimer
Renée Knight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Doctor Sleep
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Does It Hurt?
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Done and Dusted
Lyla Sage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Do Not Disturb
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Double Indemnity
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Do You Remember?
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dreaming in Cuban
Cristina García

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dreamland
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dream State
Eric Puchner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421
T. J. Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Duma Key
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Each Tiny Spark
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Earth Abides
George R. Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

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

Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Efuru
Flora Nwapa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

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

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Electric Idol
Katee Robert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Elevation: A Novel
Stephen King

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2018

Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Elizabeth is Missing
Emma Healey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Heather Fawcett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Empire Falls
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Empire of Wild
Cherie Dimaline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Enchantra
Kaylie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Endless Love
Scott Spencer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

End of Story
A. J. Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

End of Watch
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Erasure
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Eruption
Michael Crichton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Eternal
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Euphoria
Lily King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Eva Luna
Isabel Allende, Transl. Margaret Sayers Peden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Even As We Breathe
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Every Day Is for the Thief
Teju Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Every Last Secret
A. R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Every Note Played
Lisa Genova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Everyone Here Is Lying: A Novel
Shari Lapena

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead
Emily Austin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Everyone Is Watching
Heather Gudenkauf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Every Summer After
Carley Fortune

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Everything Here Is Beautiful
Mira T. Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018