Cursed Bunny, first published in 2017, is a collection of speculative fiction stories by Korean author Bora Chung. A scholar of Slavic literature, Chung leveraged her fascination with fairy tales, folklore, magic, and science to revise personal experiences and observations about contemporary Korean culture, resulting in the 10 stories that comprise the book. These stories allow her to interrogate patriarchal strategies, capitalist greed, and systems of power and control. Following the translation of the book... Read Cursed Bunny Summary

“Daddy” is a poem by American poet/novelist Sylvia Plath, published posthumously in the 1965 poetry collection Ariel. It is one of her most well-known, well-analyzed poems and has found its way into a variety of American anthologies and classroom discussions. “Daddy” was written during the final months of Plath’s life, in which she wrote poems at a rapid rate of about two to three per day. This poem depicts autobiographical aspects of her relationship with... Read Daddy Summary

Damnation Spring is the debut novel by Ash Davidson. Davidson is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and hails from Arcata, California, near where the novel takes place. Damnation Spring is an epic family drama set in the late 1970s that plays out against conflicts over the last redwood forests. Environmentalists want to save the majestic trees, but the community dependent on them for their livelihood feels otherwise. Davidson weaves a powerful tale from... Read Damnation Spring Summary

Dangerous Liaisons is an epistolary novel (i.e., a story told through a series of letters) first published in 1782, seven years before the start of the French Revolution, by Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos. The story revolves around the scheming and manipulative activities of two aristocrats, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont. They take pleasure in seducing and ruining the reputations of others, using their wit and charm to manipulate those around them... Read Dangerous Liaisons Summary

IntroductionDaphnis and Chloe is an ancient Greek romance novel and the only known work of the mysterious writer Longus, who lived during the 2nd century C.E., when Greece was part of the Roman Empire. The novel is a pastoral work depicting the idealized life of shepherds and rural communities, while following the love story of the two eponymous protagonists, Daphnis and Chloe. Due to the descriptions of nudity, desire, and sex, critics have traditionally considered... Read Daphnis and Chloe Summary

Written and illustrated by Ingrid and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (1962) is a children’s/middle grade collection of ancient Greek (and Roman) myth narratives. A curation of ancient sources to foreground the charming and fantastical, the collection retells the familiar stories in lyrical prose and includes whimsical illustrations inspired by ancient Greek artifacts. The D’Aulaires shape the tales to explore themes related to origin stories, the danger of excess and need for... Read D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths Summary

Day by Michael Cunningham, first published in 2023, is a contemporary fiction novel. It covers one day—April 5—over the course of three years in 2019, 2020, and 2021, examining the personal impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The novel is considered a work of psychological fiction, as it explores the thoughts of several characters who struggle with past regrets, fears for the future, and personal relationships in the form of family, friendship, and love.Cunningham is... Read Day Summary

Dear Debbie (2026) is a psychological thriller by best-selling American author Freida McFadden. The novel follows housewife and advice columnist Debbie Mullen, whose cheerful “Dear Debbie” columns hide her dark side and her intelligence. As Debbie’s perfect life begins to fall apart, she seeks vengeance on those who have wronged her and is forced to confront her darkest secret. Major themes in the novel include The Danger of Secrecy in Relationships, Misogyny and Societal Control... Read Dear Debbie Summary

Death in Her Hands (2020) is a work of psychological suspense and metafiction by American author Ottessa Moshfegh. Moshfegh is known for her novels featuring alienated and unreliable female narrators, including the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning Eileen (2015) and the New York Times bestseller My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). Death in Her Hands was also a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Book of 2020 by several publications. The novel follows an... Read Death in Her Hands Summary

Dept. of Speculation is a work of literary fiction by American novelist Jenny Offill. The novel was originally published in January 2014 by Alfred A. Knopf and was named one of the year’s 10 best books by the New York Times. Written in Offill’s customary fragmented prose, Dept. of Speculation reinvents the familiar story of marital infidelity into an examination of life’s meaning and purpose. Offill combines elements of philosophy, myth, science, and poetry to... Read Dept. of Speculation Summary

Published in 2020, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre is an epistolary horror novel by American author Max Brooks. Brooks is best known for his novel World War Z (2006), which blends nonfiction techniques with speculative narrative elements, and he uses a similar mix of scientific realism, nonfiction techniques, and horror elements to tell a survival story centering on the mythical Bigfoot. In 2021, Devolution was nominated for the Locus Award for... Read Devolution Summary

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto is a novel that blends the cozy mystery, romantic comedy, and contemporary domestic fiction genres within the context of Chinese Indonesian culture. It follows the comedic shenanigans of the Chan family: After a bad date results in an accidental murder, Meddy Chan, her mother, and her three outspoken, bickering aunties must hide the body—and keep it hidden—all while working a high-profile wedding. Meddy, in juggling all that... Read Dial A for Aunties Summary

Director and writer Renée Knight’s debut novel Disclaimer (2015) is a psychological thriller that is narrated from two alternating perspectives: Catherine Ravenscroft, a documentary filmmaker who receives a mysterious book that retells the story of a traumatic event she has been keeping secret for 20 years; and the book’s author, widower Stephen Brigstocke, who seeks revenge against Catherine. In 2024, Disclaimer was adapted by Academy Award–winning director Alfonso Cuaron into an Apple TV miniseries starring Cate... Read Disclaimer Summary

Kristin Hannah’s 2002 novel Distant Shores is a work of contemporary women’s fiction that explores a marriage in crisis. After 24 years of marriage, 45-year-old Elizabeth Shore feels empty and unfulfilled now that her two daughters are in college. While her husband, former NFL star Jack Shore, pursues a second chance at fame with a new broadcasting career, Elizabeth is forced to confront the woman she has become and decide if she has the courage... Read Distant Shores Summary

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a 1968 novel by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Set in a future version of San Francisco in the aftermath of a destructive world war, the novel tells the story of Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who makes a living by tracking down and killing human-like androids. Dick was already an established science fiction author by 1968; he won the Hugo Award for The Man in... Read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Summary

Dolores Claiborne (1992) is a psychological thriller by the American novelist Stephen King. The novel, narrated from Dolores’s first-person point of view, tells the story of her work as a housekeeper for the wealthy Vera Donovan and Dolores’s eventual murder of her abusive husband. Unique among King’s work for its unconventional narrative style, including a lack of chapter designations and section breaks, the novel deals with themes of revenge, family, physical and sexual abuse, and... Read Dolores Claiborne Summary

British author Charles Dickens, a notable figure in the canon of modern English literature, is a Victorian novelist famous for such stories as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and A Christmas Carol. A prolific author who blends sentiment, comedy, and social realism with a satiric edge, Dickens was enormously popular in his lifetime and deeply influential in the development of the English novel. Dombey and Son is considered one of his more mature if less popular... Read Dombey and Son Summary

Dom Casmurro (1899) is a novel by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. The narrator, Bento Santiago, looks back on his life in Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to reconcile with his past. Bento recounts his childhood affection for Capitú and their marriage, pinpointing the incidents that ignited his suspicions of her affair with his close friend, Escobar. Embracing ambiguity, the author challenged conventions of his time through the novel’s unreliable first-person narrator... Read Dom Casmurro Summary

Addie E. Citchens’s debut novel, Dominion (2025), is a work of Southern Gothic fiction set in the Mississippi Delta. The story centers on the Winfreys, a powerful family whose influence is anchored by the patriarch, Reverend Sabre Winfrey Jr., leader of the Seven Seals Missionary Baptist Church. When the carefully constructed public image of their youngest son, the celebrated scholar athlete Emanuel “Wonderboy” Winfrey, begins to unravel, it threatens to reveal hidden tensions and conflicts... Read Dominion Summary

Don’t Let Him In is a 2025 psychological thriller by British author Lisa Jewell. Jewell specializes in the domestic suspense genre, and her nearly two dozen novels often focus on the intricacies of human relationships. These include bestsellers like I Found You, The Family Upstairs, and Then She Was Gone. Don’t Let Him In follows widow Nina Swann’s developing relationship with the charming and polished Nick Radcliffe, whom Nina’s daughter, Ash, doesn’t trust. When Martha... Read Don't Let Him In Summary