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A Dance to the Music of Time
Alice Schroeder, 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
Leigh Eddings, Barbara W. Tuchman, David Eddings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

A Dog Named Christmas
John Verdon, 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
T.J. Klune, August Strindberg

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

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, Catherine Doyle, Katherine Webber

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

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 Stearns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Dancing with Cuba
Alma Guillermoprieto

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav, James Lee Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
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

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, Maya Hughes

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
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
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, S.M. Gaither

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Clint Howard, Laini Taylor, Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Daughters of the Vicar
Dean Koontz, 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, Dorothea Benton Frank

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
Harlan Coben, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Deadly Spin
Wendell Potter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris, Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Dear Life
Alice Munro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dear Marcus
P. Craig Russell, Miguelanxo Prado, Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, Jerry McGill, Barron Storey, Dave McKean, Bill Sienkiewicz, Neil Gaiman, Frank Quitely

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Death and the Dervish
Meša Selimović

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman, Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Death at an Early Age
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
Jana Aston, P. D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death In The Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa, Sarah Rees Brennan, Cassandra Clare

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Debt of Honor
Felicia Day, Tom Clancy, Joss Whedon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

December Stillness
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Deception Point
L.J. Smith, Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Decline and Fall
Harlan Coben, Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Deep Down Dark
Héctor Tobar, Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gustave Doré

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Deep River
Shusaku Endo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Deirdre of the Sorrows
John Flanagan, 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
Eoin Dempsey, Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Delta Wedding
Eudora Welty, Ivan Morris, Yukio Mishima

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Denton Little's Deathdate
S. Jae-Jones, Lance Rubin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Dept. of Speculation
Jenny Offill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dereliction of Duty
Nora Roberts, H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger, Brian K. Vaughan, José Marzán Jr., Pia Guerra

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Descent into Hell
Charles Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Desdemona, Twelve Going on Desperate
Beverly Keller

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Desert Places
Nora Roberts, MacLeod Andrews, Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Des Hommes
Laurent Mauvignier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Desirable Daughters
Bharati Mukherjee, Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O'Neill, Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Desperate Characters
Paula Fox, Meg Wolitzer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Dessa Rose
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, Heinrich Harrer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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