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The Deepest Secret
Carla Buckley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1841

The Defector
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Defence of Poesy
Philip Sidney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1595

The Defendant
G.K. Chesterton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Defense
Steve Cavanagh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Defense Never Rests
F. Lee Bailey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Defining Decade
Meg Jay

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2012

The Definitive Book of Body Language
Allan Pease, Barbara Pease

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Demon
Hubert Selby Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Demon Headmaster (Demon Headmaster, #1)
Gillian Cross

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Demon in the Freezer
Richard Preston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1)
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Demonologist
Andrew Pyper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Demon You Know (The Others, #11)
Christine Warren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir
Benjamin Jacobs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

The Deptford Trilogy
Robertson Davies

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Descendants
Kaui Hart Hemmings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Deserted Village
Oliver Goldsmith, W. mLeod

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1882

The Desert of Love
François Mauriac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Desert Spear
Peter V. Brett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Desolations of Devil's Acre
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

The Destruction of the European Jews
Raul Hilberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

The Details
Ia Genberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Detour
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Detroit Project: Three Plays
Dominique Morisseau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

The Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Devil and Miss Prym
Paulo Coelho, Amanda Hopkinson, Nick Caistor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Devil Colony
James Rollins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Devil in the Flesh
Raymond Radiguet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Devil in the Marshalsea (Thomas Hawkins #1)
Antonia Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Devil in Vienna
Doris Orgel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Devil of Nanking
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Devil's Advocate (Loyola Classics)
Morris L. West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

The Devil's Bed
William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Devil's Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Devils of Loudun
Aldous Huxley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Devil's Punchbowl
Greg Iles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Devils (The Possessed)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1871

The Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesias

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Devil Wears Black
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Charles M. Blow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Devil You Know (Felix Castor, #1)
Mike Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Diabolic
S.J. Kincaid

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1922

The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Diamond of Darkhold
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Diamond Throne
Leigh Eddings, David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1990

The Diana Chronicles
Tina Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
Shaun Bythell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

The Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
Jakob Walter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Diary of a Provincial Lady
E.M. Delafield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1947

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
Dawid Sierakowiak

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Carlos Fuentes, Sarah M. Lowe, Frida Kahlo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Murasaki Shikibu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1660

The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Dictionary of Lost Words
Pip Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

The Didache
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Diddakoi
Rumer Godden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

The Difference Engine
Bruce Sterling, William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Dig
Cynan Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Dilemma
B.A. Paris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020