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The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
Daniel Abraham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dragon's Promise
Elizabeth Lim

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur #6)
Arnaldur Indriðason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Dream Daughter
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Dreamer
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Illustr. Peter Sis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dream-Hunter
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dreaming Jewels
Theodore Sturgeon, Теодор Стърджън

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Dreaming Void
Peter F. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dream Lover
Elizabeth Berg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dream of a Common Language
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

The Dream of Scipio
Iain Pears

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Dream of Water: A Memoir
Kyoko Mori

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Dream Thieves
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
Mark Arax

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dress Lodger
Sheri Holman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Dressmaker
Beryl Bainbridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Dressmaker's Gift
Fiona Valpy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1970

The Drop
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Drought
J.G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Drover's Wife
Henry Lawson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

The Drowned Girls
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Drowner
Robert Drewe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Drowning Girl
Caitlín R. Kiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Drowning Kind
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Drowning of Arthur Braxton
Caroline Smailes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Drowning Woman
Robyn Harding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Druid of Shannara
Terry Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dry
Jane Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Dry Grass of August
Anna Jean Mayhew

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Dry Salvages
T.S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1614

The Duchess War
Courtney Milan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Duel
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1891

The Dukan Diet
Pierre Dukan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Duke and I
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Duke's Children (Palliser, #6)
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey
Joe Starita

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Dunciad
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1743

The Dunwich Horror
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1929

The Dutch House
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Duties of American Citizenship
Theodore Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Dwarf
Pär Lagerkvist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Dying Animal
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Dying Sun
Gary L. Blackwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Dynasts
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011