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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 | Published in 1 BCE

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Developing the Leader Within You
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Devil in Winter
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Devoted
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Devotion
Hannah Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dèy
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1632

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
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Dingoes at Dinnertime
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

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 Laundry
Disha Bose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Discipline Is Destiny
Ryan Holiday

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Disclosure
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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

Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Chou

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dispatches from Pluto
Richard Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Divergent Mind
Jenara Nerenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Dodger
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dog Days
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Dog on It
Spencer Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About
Isabel Klee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Do Hard Things
Steve Magness

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2022

Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations
Alex Harris, Brett Harris

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2008

Dolly Parton, Songteller
Dolly Parton, Robert K. Oermann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Dolphins at Daybreak
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Dominion
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Do Nothing
Celeste Headlee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

(Don't) Call Me Crazy
Kelly Jensen

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2018

Don't Cry for Me
Daniel Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Don't Feed the Lion
Bianna Golodryga, Yonit Levi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2025

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Ally Carter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Don't Let Go
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Don't Let Me Go
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Don't Let the Forest In
C. G. Drews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Don't Look Behind You
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Don't Open Your Eyes
Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
Richard Carlson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Don't Think of an Elephant!
George Lakoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Don't Waste Your Life
John Piper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Don't You Cry
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Don't You Forget About Me
Mhairi McFarlane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Doom
Niall Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Doomsday Book
Connie Willis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Door to Door
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Dopamine Kids
Michaeleen Doucleff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Do the Work
Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011