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The Dark Prophecy
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Darling
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Daughter of Invention
Julia Alvarez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1993

The Daughter Of Time
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
Nat Hentoff

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

The Dead
James Joyce

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1914

The Dead
Susan Mitchell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

The Dead and the Gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne, Tamara Payne

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dead Zone
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Dearly Beloved
Cara Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death Cure
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
David A. Ansell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Death of a Government Clerk
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1883

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes, Transl. Alfred J. MacAdam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Death of a Soldier
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Death of Santa Claus
Charles Harper Webb

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1967

The Death of the Hired Man
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Death of the Moth
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Death of Woman Wang
Jonathan Spence

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1353

The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1889

The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1776

The Deep
Rivers Solomon

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2019

The Deep End
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

The Defence of Poesy
Philip Sidney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1595

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Demon in the Freezer
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Demon Lover
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1945

The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Destructors
Graham Greene

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1954

The Devil and Daniel Webster
Stephen Vincent Benét

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1937

The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Devil And Tom Walker
Washington Irving

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1824

The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

The Devil's Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Devils (The Possessed)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Charles M. Blow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

The Diameter of the Bomb
Yehuda Amichai

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1947

The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1660

The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dinner
Herman Koch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Discarded Image
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

The Discourses
Niccolò Machiavelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1531

The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Disquieting Muses
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Distance Between Us
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Division of Labor in Society
Émile Durkheim

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1893

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dollhouse Murders
Betty Ren Wright

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Door in the Wall
Marguerite De Angeli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1949

The Door of No Return
Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

The Do-Over
Lynn Painter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1846

The Double Helix
James D. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Downstairs Girl
Stacey Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Dragonet Prophecy
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
Wayetu Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Dreamer
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Illustr. Peter Sis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1877