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Devil's Game
Joanna Wylde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Devils in Daylight
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 谷崎 潤一郎

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Devil's Manhunt (Western Short Stories Collection)
L. Ron Hubbard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Devil's Peak (Benny Griessel, #1)
Deon Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Devi-Mahatmyam (The Chandi)
Markandeya, Jagadiswarananda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Devious Lies
Parker S. Huntington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Devoted
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Devoted in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Devotion
Dani Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
John Donne

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Devoured
Emily Snow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

De vulgari eloquentia (Spanish Edition)
Dante Alighieri

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library!
Vicki Myron, Bret Witter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Bret Witter, Vicki Myron

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Dexter by Design
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dexter Is Delicious
Jeff Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1779

Diamond Fire
Ilona Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Diamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Diamonds in the Shadow
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Diamond Willow
Helen Frost

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2008

Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
Andrew Morton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
L. Ron Hubbard

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Diary
Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Diary of a Bad Year
J.M. Coetzee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2006

Diary of an Ordinary Woman
Margaret Forster

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Diary of a Provincial Lady
E.M. Delafield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Diary of a Superfluous Man
Ivan Turgenev

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Diary of a Void
David Boyd, Lucy North, Emi Yagi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Diary of Confederate Soldier
John S. Jackman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Diaspora
Greg Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Dickens
Peter Ackroyd

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Dictator (Cicero, #3)
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dictee
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Did I Mention I Love You?
Estelle Maskame

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Did You Ever Have a Family
Bill Clegg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Die Again
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Die a Little
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Die for Me
Amy Plum

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Die, My Love
Ariana Harwicz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
S.M. Stirling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Dietland
Sarai Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
Kieron Gillen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Different Class (Malbry #2)
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Different Seasons
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Difficult Daughters
Manju Kapur

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Difficult Women
Roxane Gay

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Dig
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Digging to America
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Digital Fortress
Dan Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Dime Store Magic
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Dinged
Tommy Greenwald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Nathan Englander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While also in an Actual Cult!)
Bethany Joy Lenz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Dinners With Ruth
Nina Totenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Dinosaurs Before Dark
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1992

Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Directed Verdict
Randy Singer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Directions to Servants (Hesperus Classics)
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Isaac Fitzgerald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Dirt Creek
Hayley Scrivenor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Dirt Music
Tim Winton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Dirty
Kylie Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Dirty Billionaire
Meghan March

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Dirty Headlines
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Dirty Laundry
Disha Bose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Dirty Letters
Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dirty Little Secrets
Jo Spain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Dirty Pleasures
Meghan March

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Dirty Red
Tarryn Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Dirty Rowdy Thing
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Dirty Thirty
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Ed. Alice Wong

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Disappearance at Devil's Rock
Paul Tremblay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Disappeared (Disappeared, #1)
Francisco X. Stork

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Discipline And Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975