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Disclaimer
Renée Knight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Disclosure
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Discourse on Method and Related Writings
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1755

Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Discovering Wes Moore
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2012

Discworld
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

D is for Deadbeat
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

DisneyWar
James B. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Disobedience
Naomi Alderman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Disoriental
Négar Djavadi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dispatches from Pluto
Richard Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Displacement
Kiku Hughes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2020

Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Distant Shores
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Distant Star
Roberto Bolaño

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1996

Distant Waves
Suzanne Weyn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Distress Signals
Catherine Ryan Howard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

District and Circle
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Disunity in Christ
Christena Cleveland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Divergent
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Divided in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Divided We Fall
Trent Reedy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Divine Evil
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Divine Madness (Cherub, #5)
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Divine Misdemeanors
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Divorce Islamic Style
Amara Lakhous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Deepa Anappara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Rick Strassman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

D.N.Angel, Vol. 1
Yukiru Sugisaki

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Dobry
Monica Shannon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Doctor Glas
Hjalmar Söderberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Doctor No
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (Doctor Proctor #1)
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Doctor Sleep
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Dodger
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dodger (Dodger, #1)
James Benmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Dodgers
Bill Beverly

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Dodsworth
Sinclair Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Does It Hurt?
H. D. Carlton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Dog Biscuits
Alex Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dog Days
Judy Budnitz

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1998

Dog Driven
Terry Lynn Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Dog Man
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Published in 2018

Dog Man: Fetch-22
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment
Dav Pilkey

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

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Dog Man: Mothering Heights
Dav Pilkey

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1)
Spencer Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dogs Don't Tell Jokes (Someday Angeline, #2)
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Dogsong
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

Do Hard Things
Steve Magness

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2017

Do-It-Yourself Book
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2008

Doll Bones
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Dom
S.J. Tilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848

Dom Casmurro
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Domes of Fire
David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

Dominic
L.A. Casey

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Dominicana
Angie Cruz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Dominion
C.J. Sansom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Doña Bárbara
Rómulo Gallegos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Don Juan
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

Don Juan and Other Plays
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla y Moral

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1844

Do No Harm
Henry Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008