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Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Delusion in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Dana Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Demelza (Poldark, #2)
Winston Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Demian
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

Democracy: An American Novel
Henry Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1835

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Demon Dentist
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Demonglass
Rachel Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Demon in the Wood
Dani Pendergast, Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Demonology
Rick Moody

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

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

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

Denial: A Memoir of Terror
Jessica Stern

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

De Niro's Game
Rawi Hage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Denison Avenue
Christina Wong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Den of Thieves (Ancient Blades, #1)
David Chandler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Den of Vipers
K.A Knight

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Denton Little's Deathdate
Lance Rubin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Departure
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Depraved Heart
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Depression & Other Magic Tricks
Sabrina Benaim

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14)
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Derailed
James Siegel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Der nasse Fisch (Gereon Rath, #1)
Volker Kutscher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Der Richter und sein Henker
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Der Schimmelreiter
Theodor Storm

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Der Trafikant
Robert Seethaler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Descent
Tim Johnston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Descent into Hell
Charles Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Desdemona (Oberon Modern Plays)
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Desdemona, Twelve Going on Desperate
Beverly Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Desecration
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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

Desertion
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

desert places
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Desert Places
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Desert Star
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Des Hommes
Laurent Mauvignier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Desilu : The story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Coyne S. Sanders, Thomas W. Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Desirable Daughters
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Desires of the Dead
Kimberly Derting

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
John Piper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17)
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Desolation Road (Desolation Road Universe, #1)
Ian McDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Despair
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Desperate Characters
Paula Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Desperation
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Desperation in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dessa Rose
Sherley A. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Destination Moon (Tintin, #16)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Destination Unknown
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Destined
Kristin Cast, P.C. Cast

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Destined for an Early Grave
Jeaniene Frost

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Destroying Avalon
Kate Mccaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Deuteronomy
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Devdas
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Developing the Leader Within You
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Deviant King
Rina Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Devil Bones
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Devil In A Blue Dress
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels, #7)
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Devil in Spring
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Devil in the Grove
Gilbert King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Devil in Winter
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Devil May Cry
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Devil on the Cross
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Devil's Bride
Stephanie Laurens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Devil's Bridge
Cynthia C. DeFelice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Devil's Bridge (Alexandra Cooper, #17)
Linda Fairstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Devil's Cub (Alastair-Audley, #2)
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Devil's Daughter
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019