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A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Day's Wait
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1933

A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

A Description of a City Shower
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1710

A Devoted Son
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

A Dog Has Died
Pablo Neruda

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

A Dog's Purpose
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

Daddy
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Damnation Spring
Ash Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dance of Thieves
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Dancing At Lughnasa
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Dangerous Liaisons
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1782

Danny, the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1307

Daphnis and Chloe
Longus

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Dare to Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

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 Visible
William Styron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

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

Daughter Of Fortune
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

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

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

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 of Tears
Julius Lester

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

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 Men’s Path
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

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

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

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 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 Be Not Proud
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Death By Landscape
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Death Constant Beyond Love
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1970

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

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 Water
Watt Key

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

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

Delirium
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1835

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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 Solitaire
Edward Abbey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Desiree's Baby
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Diary of a Madman
Lu Xun

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1918

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

Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Did I Miss Anything?
Tom Wayman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Different Ways to Pray
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Digging
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult