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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Jordan Sonnenblick

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Drunk on Love
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dr. Wortle's School
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Dry
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Duma Key
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dumplin
Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Durango Street
Frank Bonham

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1965

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Joan Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Dusk (Dusk, #1)
Eve Edwards

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Dust
Hugh Howey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Dust Bowl
Donald Worster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Dust Child
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Dust of Dreams
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dust of Eden
Mariko Nagai

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2014

Dust (Richard Jury, #21)
Martha Grimes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dust to Dust
Benjamin Busch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
Robert Matzen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Dutchman
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Linda Hogan

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Dying in New York
Ekow Duker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Dying of the Light
George R.R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Anita Moorjani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Dying to Know You
Aidan Chambers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Dynasty of Evil
Drew Karpyshyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Dalai Lama: His Essential Wisdom
Dalai Lama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dalai Lama's Cat (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #1)
David Michie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Damned Utd
David Peace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Dance of Death
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Dance of Legislation
Eric Redman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

The Dangerous Art of Blending In
Angelo Surmelis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Transl. Megan McDowell, Mariana Enríquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2021

The Danish Girl
David Ebershoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Dante Club
Matthew Pearl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Dare
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dare Game (Tracy Beaker, #2)
Jacqueline Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

The Daring Ladies of Lowell
Kate Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Dark Bones (A Dark Lure, #2)
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy
Camara Laye

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1954

The Dark Circle
Linda Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

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 of the Year
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)
Ann Cleeves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Darkest Hour
Maya Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Darkest Kiss
Gena Showalter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Darkest Legacy (The Darkest Minds, #4)
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

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 Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1)
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 (Origin, #1)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | 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, 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 Lady
Akala

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock #1)
Sarah Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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 (Hidden Iceland #1)
Ragnar Jónasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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