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Dear Mrs. Bird
AJ Pearce

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Dear Wife
Kimberly Belle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Death at La Fenice
Donna Leon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1949

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable… About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Death Comes As The End
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

Death In The Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Death in the Spires
K. J. Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1933

Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Death Masks
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Death Was the Other Woman
Linda L. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Death with Interruptions
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Debt of Honor
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

December Stillness
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Deception Point
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Decision Points
George W. Bush

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Deep Down Dark
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Deep House
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Deep River
Shusaku Endo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Defiant
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Defy Me
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Defy (sinners of Saint, #0.5)
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

Deity
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Déjà Dead
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Delicate Escape
Catherine Cowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Delicious!
Ruth Reichl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Delight in Disorder: Selected Poems
Robert Herrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Democracy: An American Novel
Henry Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

Democracy in Chains
Nancy Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Demonglass
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Emily Ladau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Denied Access
Don Bentley, Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Denton Little's Deathdate
Lance Rubin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Departure(s)
Julian Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Descent
Tim Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Descent into Hell
Charles Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Desdemona, Twelve Going on Desperate
Beverly Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Desertion
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Desert Places
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Desert Star
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Des Hommes
Laurent Mauvignier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Desirable Daughters
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Desperate Characters
Paula Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Desperation
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Dessa Rose
Sherley A. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
Graham Allison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Destiny of Souls
Michael Newton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Destroying Avalon
Kate Mccaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Deuteronomy
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Devoted
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Devotion
Hannah Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1779

Diamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Diamonds in the Shadow
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
Andrew Morton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Diary of a Void
Emi Yagi, Transl. Lucy North, Transl. David Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Dickens
Peter Ackroyd

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Die, My Love
Ariana Harwicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dietland
Sarai Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Die Trying
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Difficult Women
Roxane Gay

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Dig
A. S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Digging to America
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Digital Disconnect
Robert W. Mcchesney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Digital Fortress
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Nathan Englander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dinosaurs
Lydia Millet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dirty Little Secrets
Kerry Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dirty Thirty
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Discipline Equals Freedom
Jocko Willink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017