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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 Dark Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #5)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Darling
Russell Banks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Darling Buds of May
H.E. Bates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

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 Madurai
Rajasree Variyar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)
Krystal Marquis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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 Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Day After Roswell
Philip J. Corso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Day After Tomorrow
Allan Folsom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Day I Died
Lori Rader-Day

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Chingiz Aitmatov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Daylight War
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Jim Bishop

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

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 Falls Stood Still
Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
James Burke

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

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 and the Living
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne, Tamara Payne

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dead Ex
Jane Corry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 March: A History of the Mexican-American War
Peter Guardino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)
Colin Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Dead of Night
John Marsden

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The Dead Queens Club
Hannah Capin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

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 a President: November 1963
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Death of Bees
Lisa O'Donnell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Death of Grass
John Christopher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1886

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 Napoleon
Simon Leys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

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 Vishnu
Manil Suri

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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 Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)
Yukito Ayatsuji

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1353

The Deceivers (Film Tie-in)
John Masters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Gar Alperovitz, Sanho Tree

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)
Gemma Malley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Decline of the West
Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Deep
Alma Katsu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Deep Blue Between
Ayesha Harruna Attah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)
John D. MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Deep Dark Descending (Detective Max Rupert, #4)
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Deep End
Jeff Kinney

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

The Deep End (The Country Club Murders #1)
Julie Mulhern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021