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Death in Venice and Other Tales
Joachim Neugroschel, Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Death Is Hard Work
Khaled Khalifa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Deathless
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death Masks
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 1
Tsugumi Ohba

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Death Note, Vol. 4: Love
Alexis Kirsch, Tsugumi Ohba

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Death of a Cozy Writer (St. Just Mystery, #1)
G.M. Malliet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1)
M.C. Beaton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)
P.D. James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)
Ngaio Marsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1949

Death of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #6)
Bernard Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Death On The Nile
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1937

Death on the River
John Wilson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Death's End
Liu Cixin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Liu Cixin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Death's Master (Flat Earth, #2)
Tanith Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Death: The High Cost of Living
Chris Bachalo, Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Death: The Time of Your Life
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Death Valley
Melissa Broder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Death Was the Other Woman
Linda L. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Deathwatch
Robb White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Death with Interruptions
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Death Without Company
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Death Without Weeping
Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Deathworld 1 (Deathworld, #1)
Harry Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

De avonden
Gerard Reve, Gerard Kornelis van het Reve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Debt of Bones
Terry Goodkind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Debt of Honor
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

December
Phil Rickman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

December Stillness
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Deception (Defiance, #2)
C.J. Redwine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Deception Point
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Decision Points
George W. Bush

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Decoded
Jay-Z

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Deenie
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1973

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Deep Blue
Jennifer Donnelly

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Deep Down Dark
Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Deeper Than Midnight
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Deeper Than the Dead
Tami Hoag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Deeply Odd
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Deep River
Karl Marlantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Deep (Stage Dive, #4)
Kylie Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Deep Storm (Jeremy Logan, #1)
Lincoln Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Deep Threat (Billy Beckett, #1)
Scott Pratt, Kelly Hodge

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Deerskin
Robin McKinley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Defending Jacob
William Landay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Defend the Dawn
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Defiance
C.J. Redwine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Defiant
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2023

Define "Normal"
Julie Anne Peters

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Definitely Dead
Charlaine Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Definitely Not Mr. Darcy
Karen Doornebos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Defy
Sara B. Larson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Defying the Odds
Kele Moon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Defy Me (Shatter Me, #5)
Tahereh Mafi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Defy (Sinners of Saint, #0.5)
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Defy the Night
Brigid Kemmerer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

Deity
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
Kathy Reichs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dejection: An Ode
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

Delhi
Khushwant Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Delicate Condition
Danielle Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Delicious!
Ruth Reichl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Delicious Foods
James Hannaham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Delight in Disorder: Selected Poems
Robert Herrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Deliver Us from Evil
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010