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Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Deep Water
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Deer Hit
Jon Loomis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Defender Of The Faith
Philip Roth

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

Defending Jacob
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Defy the Night
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Delicate Condition
Danielle Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Delirium
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Deliverance
James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1835

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1
Koyoharu Gotouge

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2018

Depression
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

De Profundis
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1905

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders
Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Desert Exile
Yoshiko Uchida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
Waris Dirie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Desiree's Baby
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Devil In A Blue Dress
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Devil in the Grove
Gilbert King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Diary of a Madman
Lu Xun

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

Diary of a Madman
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Did I Miss Anything?
Tom Wayman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Different Seasons
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Different Ways to Pray
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Digging
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Dim Lady
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dinners With Ruth
Nina Totenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Dirt
Kwame Dawes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Ed. Alice Wong

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Discipline And Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1755

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Discovering Wes Moore
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2012

Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Dispatches
Michael Herr

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Displacement
Kiku Hughes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2020

Divergent
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

Doctor Sleep
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Dog Man
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey

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

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Dogsong
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

Doll Bones
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

Dominicana
Angie Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla y Moral

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1844

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1605

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell

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

Dorothy Must Die
Danielle Paige

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Dory Fantasmagory
Abby Hanlon

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Dothead
Amit Majmudar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Double Down
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Double Fudge
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Double Indemnity
James M. Cain

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1936

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1867

Downsiders
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Down The Rabbit Hole
Holly Madison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015