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A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Deal In Wheat
Frank Norris

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Diary from Dixie
Mary Boykin Chestnut

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Distant Episode
Paul Bowles

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Dog Named Christmas
Greg Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Dog's Way Home
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Door Near Here
Heather Quarles

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Dream Deferred
Shelby Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Dream Play
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Drink before the War
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Dry White Season
André Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA

Daisy Miller
Henry James

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Damsel
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA

Dance Hall Of The Dead
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Dancing After Hours
Andre Dubus II

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters
Jason Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Daniel Deronda
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
David Chotjewitz

Fiction | Novel | YA

Daniel's Story
Carol Matas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Daring to Drive
Manal Al-Sharif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dark At The Crossing
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dark Horse
John Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dark Life
Kat Falls

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dark Money
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Darkness in El Dorado
Patrick Tierney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dark Universe
Daniel F. Galouye

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Darwin on Man
Howard E. Gruber, Paul H. Barrett

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Das Kapital
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Das Mädchen Wadjda
Haifaa al-Mansour

Fiction | Novel | YA

Daughter of Persia
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA

Daughters of the Vicar
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Davita's Harp
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Days of Awe
Achy Obejas

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Days Without End
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dead End In Norvelt
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dead in Center Field
Paul Engleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Deadline
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA

Deadly Feasts
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Deadly Little Secret
Laurie Faria Stolarz

Fiction | Novel | YA

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Dear Life
Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA

Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult

Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death In The Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Death in Venice
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death Was the Other Woman
Linda L. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Death with Interruptions
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Debt of Honor
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

December Stillness
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA

Deception Point
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Deep Down Dark
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Deep River
Shusaku Endo

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult

Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage
Molly Wizenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Delight in Disorder: Selected Poems
Robert Herrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Deliverance
James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Demian
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Denton Little's Deathdate
Lance Rubin

Fiction | Novel | YA

Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult