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Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

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 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 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

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

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1835

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Demon Dentist
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1
Koyoharu Gotouge

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2018

Depression
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

De Profundis
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1905

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
António R. Damásio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders
Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Desert Exile
Yoshiko Uchida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
Waris Dirie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Desiree's Baby
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Development As Freedom
Amartya Sen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Devil In A Blue Dress
Walter Mosley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Devil in the Grove
Gilbert King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Devil on the Cross
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Diary of a Madman
Lu Xun

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

Diary of a Madman
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1835

Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1892

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Dibs in Search of Self: The Renowned, Deeply Moving Story of an Emotionally Lost Child Who Found His Way Back
Virginia Axline

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Did I Miss Anything?
Tom Wayman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Different Seasons
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Different Ways to Pray
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Sheila Heen, Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Digging
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Dim Lady
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dinners With Ruth
Nina Totenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Dinosaurs Before Dark
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Dirt
Kwame Dawes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Dirt Music
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Ed. Alice Wong

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Discipline And Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1637

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1755

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

Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Dispatches
Michael Herr

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Displacement
Kiku Hughes

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

Divergent
Veronica Roth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

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

Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Divinity School Address
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

Doctor Sleep
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

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

Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990