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Damsel
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dance Away with Me
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dance Dance Dance
Alfred Birnbaum, Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dance Hall Of The Dead
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Dance of Death
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dance of the Gods
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1968

Dance of Thieves
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dancer
Colum McCann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dance Upon the Air (Three Sisters Island, #1)
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dance with a Vampire
Ellen Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Dance with the Devil (Dark-Hunter, #3)
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Dancing After Hours
Andre Dubus II

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
Tyler Feder

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
Louise Rennison

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Dancing in the Dark
Joan Barfoot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters
Jason Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Bohumil Hrabal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dancing on the Edge
Han Nolan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Dandelion Summer (Blue Sky Hill #4)
Lisa Wingate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

Danger in the Shadows (O'Malley, #0)
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dangerous Girls
Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1782

Dangerous Women 1
George R.R. Martin

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Dangling Man
Saul Bellow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Daniel (Bible, #27)
Unknown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Daniel Boone
James Daugherty

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1971

Daniel Deronda
George Eliot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1876

Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
David Chotjewitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Daniel's Story
Carol Matas

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Danny, the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Danse Macabre
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1307

Daphnis and Chloe
Longus

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Daredevil (2014-2015) #0.1
Mark Waid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Daredevil: Born Again
Frank Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dare Me
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dare to Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Dare You To
Katie McGarry

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Daring to Dream
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Daring to Drive
Manal Al-Sharif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dark Age
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dark and Deepest Red
Anna-Marie McLemore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Dark and Shallow Lies
Ginny Myers Sain

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Dark Angel
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dark At The Crossing
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark Challenge
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Dark Corners
Megan Goldin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Darkdawn
Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dark Days
Derek Landy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Dark Demon
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dark Desire
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dark Desires After Dusk
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dark Disciple
Christie Golden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Dark Divide (Dark #2)
Sonja Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Darke
Mark Zug, Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Dark Eden (Dark Eden, #1)
Chris Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Darker (Fifty Shades as Told by Christian, #2)
E.L. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Darkest Fear
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Darkest Hour
Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Darkest Mercy
Melissa Marr

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Dark Eyes (Dark Eyes, #1)
William Richter

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Dark Fae
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Darkfever (Fever, #1)
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dark Fire
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dark Fire (Dark, #6)
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dark Flame
Alyson Noel

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Dark Force Rising
Timothy Zahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Dark Gold
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dark Guardian
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dark Harvest
Norman Partridge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dark Horse
John Fischer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Dark in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Dark Legend
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dark Life
Kat Falls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm, #1)
Diana Wynne Jones

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Dark Lover
J. R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dark Magic
Christine Feehan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Dark Matter
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
Michelle Paver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Simone Browne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Dark Money
Instaread Original

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Dark Needs at Night's Edge
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Darkness
Lord Byron

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Darkness Before Dawn
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001