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A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

A Deal In Wheat
Frank Norris

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1903

A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Death in the Family
James Agee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

A Diary from Dixie
Mary Boykin Chestnut

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1866

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

A Dog Named Christmas
Greg Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

A Dog's Way Home
W. Bruce Cameron

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Door Near Here
Heather Quarles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

A Dream Deferred
Shelby Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Dream Play
August Strindberg, Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

A Drink before the War
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Dry White Season
André Brink, André P. Brink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Damsel
Elana K. Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Dance Hall Of The Dead
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1968

Dancing After Hours
Andre Dubus II, Andre Dubus III

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Ivan Doig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters
Jason K. Stearns, Jason Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto, Esther Allen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
Doris Orgel, David Chotjewitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Daring to Drive
Manal Al-Sharif

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark At The Crossing
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dark Horse
John Fischer, John Fischer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1981

Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Dark Laughter
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Dark Money
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Darkness in El Dorado
Patrick Tierney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Dark Universe
Daniel F. Galouye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

Darwin on Man
Jean Piaget, Paul H. Barrett, Howard E. Gruber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Das Mädchen Wadjda
Haifaa al-Mansour

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Daughter of Persia
Dona Munker, Sattareh Farman Farmaian, Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Daughters of the Vicar
Anita Desai, D. H. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1911

Davita's Harp
Chaim Potok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Days of Awe
Achy Obejas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Dead End In Norvelt
Jack Gantos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dead in Center Field
Paul Engleman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Deadly Feasts
Richard Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Deadly Intentions
William Randolph Stevens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Deadly Little Secret
Laurie Faria Stolarz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Life
Raymond Verdaguer, Mónica Naranjo Uribe, Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Death and the Dervish
Stephen M. Dickey, Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Death at an Early Age
Robert Coles, Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1949

Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death In The Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Death in the Woods and Other Stories
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1933

Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Death Was the Other Woman
Linda L. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Death with Interruptions
José Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Debt of Honor
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

December Stillness
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Deception Point
Dan Brown, Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Deep Down Dark
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Deep River
Shūsaku Endō, Van C. Gessel, Shusaku Endo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Defying Hitler
Oliver Pretzel, Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge, J.M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage
Molly Wizenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Delight in Disorder: Selected Poems
Robert Herrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Denton Little's Deathdate
Lance Rubin, Lance Rubin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Descent into Hell
Charles Williams, Charles Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Desdemona, Twelve Going on Desperate
Beverly Keller, Aleta Jenks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Desert Places
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Des Hommes
Laurent Mauvignier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Designing Your Life
Dave Evans, Bill Burnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Desirable Daughters
Bharati Mukherjee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Desire Under the Elms
Orson Bean, Paul Adelstein, Maurice Chasse, Charlie Kimball, Dwier Brown, Amy Brenneman, Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Desperate Characters
Jonathan Franzen, Paula Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Dessa Rose
Sherley Anne Williams, Sherley A. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Destroying Avalon
Kate Mccaffrey

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Deuteronomy
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Richard H. Popkin, David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1779

Diamonds in the Shadow
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982