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The Darker Face of the Earth
Rita Dove

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The Darkest Child
Delores Phillips

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Darkest Corners
Kara Thomas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Darkest Evening
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Darkest Evening of the Year
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Darkest Hour
Erin Hunter

Fiction | Novel

The Darkest Kiss
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Darkest Lie
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Darkest Minds
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Darkest Night
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Darkest Part of The Forest
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Darkest Passion
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Darkest Pleasure
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Darkest Secret
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Darkest Seduction
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Darkest Star
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

The Darkest Surrender
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Darkest Temptation
Danielle Lori

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin, Transl. Joel Martinsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Half
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Dark Highlander
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Dark Hills Divide
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

The Dark Hours
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1973

The Dark Light of Day
T.M. Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Dark Monk
Lee Chadeayne, Oliver Pötzsch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Darkness Outside Us
Eliot Schrefer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

The Darkness That Comes Before
R. Scott Bakker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Dark One
Nikki St. Crowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dark Prophecy
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Dark Secret
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Dark Side
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Side of Nowhere
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Dark Tide
Andrew Gross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Dark Tower
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Darling
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dating Plan
Sara Desai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Daughter
Pavlos Matesis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Daughter Of Time
Josephine Tey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Catherine Grace Katz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The DaVinci Code: A Quest for Answers
Josh McDowell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Da Vinci Code: The Young Adult Adaptation
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Daylight War
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Day the Cowboys Quit
Elmer Kelton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Jim DeFede

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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 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 Father
Donald Barthelme

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Dead Girls' Dance
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Dead I Know
Scot Gardner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Alan Bradley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Dead Key
D.M. Pulley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dead of Night
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dead-Tossed Waves
Carrie Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

The Dead Zone
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Deal
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Deal (Off-Campus, 1)
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Dearly Beloved
Cara Wall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend
Thomas Malory, Peter Ackroyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1485

The Death of Kings
Conn Iggulden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Death of Stalin
Georges Bortoli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Death Of The Heart
Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

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 Declaration
Gemma Malley

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Deep
Nick Cutter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Deep End
Jeff Kinney

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

The Deep End of the Ocean
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

The Defector
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Defence of Poesy
Philip Sidney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1595

The Defense
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
Stephanie Kelton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Defining Decade
Meg Jay

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2012

The Definitive Book of Body Language
Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006