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Dark Life
Kat Falls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dark Matter
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Darkness Before Dawn
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Darkness of Dragons
Tui T. Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Darkness Visible
William Styron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Dark Night of the Soul
John of the Cross

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1583

Dark Places
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1949

Dark Water Rising
Marian Hale

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Darling Girls
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dash
Kirby Larson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Das Kapital
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1867

Daughter Of Fortune
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Daughter of Mine
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughter of No Worlds
Carissa Broadbent

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Sue Lynn Tan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Daughter of the Pirate King
Tricia Levenseller

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Daughters of Shandong
Eve J. Chung

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Daughters of the Dust
Julie Dash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1962

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1850

David Walker's Appeal
David Harry Walker

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995

Dawn
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dawn
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

Dawn
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Day
Michael Cunningham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Daydream
Hannah Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Day of Infamy Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Day of Tears
Julius Lester

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa, Transl. Eric Ozawa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Days Without End
Sebastian Barry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Daytripper
Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Deacon King Kong
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dead End In Norvelt
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Deadline
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Dead Lions
Mick Herron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deadly Animals
Marie Tierney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead Men’s Path
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
Donnie Eichar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Dead Poets Society
N. H. Kleinbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1989

Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1842

Dead Stars
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Deaf Like Me
Thomas S Spradley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1985

Dealing with Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Dear Basketball
Kobe Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dear Evan Hansen
Val Emmich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dear Future Generations: Sorry
Prince Ea

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear John
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Dear Justyce
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Dear Martin
Nic Stone

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1983

dear white america
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Dear Zoe
Philip Beard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Death
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1933

Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Death Be Not Proud
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Death By Landscape
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Death Cloud
Andrew Lane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Death Coming Up The Hill: A Novel
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Death Constant Beyond Love
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

Death in the Woods
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Death in Venice
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1912

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1949

Death of a Traveling Salesman
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Death On The Nile
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Death's End
Liu Cixin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Deathwatch
Robb White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Death Without Weeping
Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Declaration
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1848

Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Deep End
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

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

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Ashley Herring Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Delirium
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Deliverance
James Dickey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Cordelia Fine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Demian
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919