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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

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

Deirdre of the Sorrows

J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

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

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

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

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 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

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

Discipline Equals Freedom

Jocko Willink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Discontent

Beatriz Serrano, Transl. Mara Faye Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Discworld

Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Disney Adults: Exploring (And Falling In Love With) A Magical Subculture

A. J. Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Dissection of a Murder

Jo Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dissolution

Nicholas Binge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

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

Doctor No

Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958