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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 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

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 River
Shusaku Endo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

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

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

Denton Little's Deathdate
Lance Rubin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

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

Desert Places
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Des Hommes
Laurent Mauvignier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Designing Your Life
Dave Evans, Bill Burnett

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

Dessa Rose
Sherley A. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Destroying Avalon
Kate Mccaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Deuteronomy
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1779

Diamonds in the Shadow
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

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

Dietland
Sarai Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Difficult Women
Roxane Gay

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Digging to America
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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

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

Discworld
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

DisneyWar
James B. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Disoriental
Négar Djavadi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dispatches from Pluto
Richard Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Distant Star
Roberto Bolaño

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1996

Disunity in Christ
Christena Cleveland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Divided in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Divided We Fall
Trent Reedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dodger
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Don Juan
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

Do Not Become Alarmed
Maile Meloy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

(Don't) Call Me Crazy
Kelly Jensen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2018

Don't Look Behind You
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Doomsday Book
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Door to Door
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Dope Sick
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Dork in Disguise
Carol Gorman

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Dorothy Day
Kate Hennessy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
Joseph Frank

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Double Cross
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Dover Beach
Leslie Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Dovey Coe
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Down a Dark Hall
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Downriver
Iain Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Down River
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Rosemary Mahoney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Down the Rabbit Hole
Peter Abrahams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Down the River Unto the Sea
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Down to Earth
Michael Ernest Sweet

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Dragonsdawn
Anne McCaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dragon's Gate
Laurence Yep

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Dragon Slippers
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Dragonspell
Donita K. Paul

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Draw the Circle
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dream Children
A. N. Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dream House
Valerie Laken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dreams of Joy
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Drop City
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Drowned City
Don Brown

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2015

Drowning Ruth
Christina Schwarz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Dr Strangelove
Peter George

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Durango Street
Frank Bonham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1965