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The Damned Season [L'estate torbida] (1991) - Carlo Lucarelli (10/26/1960-)  (Grade:A+)

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975) - Anthony Powell (12/21/1905 -3/28/2000)  (Grade:B-)

Dandelion Wine (1957) - Ray Bradbury (08/22/1920 -06/05/2012)  (Grade:A+)

The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, A Life (2009) - David Lawday (1938-)  (Grade:A-)

Dark Matter (2016) - Blake Crouch (1978-)  (Grade:A-)

The Dark Wind (1982) - Tony Hillerman (05/07/1925 -10/26/2008)  (Grade:B)

Darkness at Noon (1941) - Arthur Koestler (9/05/1905 -3/01/1983)  (Grade:A+)

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) - William Styron (6/11/1925 -11/01/2006)  (Grade:C)

Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal (1999) - Meihong Xu (1963-)  (Grade:B)

The Daughter of Time (1951) - Josephine Tey (7/25/1896 -2/13/1952)  (Grade:B-)

The Daughters of Cain (1994) - Colin Dexter (1930-)  (Grade:A+)

David Copperfield (1850) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A)

A Day in the Bleachers (1955) - Arnold Hano (1922-)  (Grade:A+)

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) (2007) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:A)

Day of Infamy (1957) - Walter Lord (1917-)  (Grade:A)

The Day of the Locust (1939) - Nathanael West (1902-1940)  (Grade:C-)

Day of Wrath (1982) - Jonathan Valin (-)  (Grade:A)

Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993) - Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)  (Grade:B)

Dead Irish: a Dismas Hardy novel (1989) - John T. Lescroart (-)  (Grade:B+)

A Deadly Exchange (2001) - Sheryl Jane Stafford (-)  (Grade:B-)

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague (1997) - Richard Rhodes (-)  (Grade:B-)

Death and Judgment (1995) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)  (Grade:A)

The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1934-)  (Grade:C+)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs (05/14/1916-04/26/2006)  (Grade:A-)

Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir (1949) - John Gunther (1901-1970)  (Grade:A-)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather (12/07/1873 -4/24/1947)  (Grade:C)

Death in a Strange Country : a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (1993) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942 -)  (Grade:A-)

A Death in the Family (1957) - James Agee (1909-1955)  (Grade:C)

Death in Venice (1913) - Thomas Mann (6/06/1875 -8/12/1955)  (Grade:C)

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1985) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)  (Grade:A)

The Death of a Joyce Scholar: A Peter McGarr Mystery (1989) - Bartholomew Gill (1943-)  (Grade:B+)

Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-)  (Grade:A-)

The Death of a Nobody (1911) - Jules Romains (1885-1972)  (Grade:B)

The Death of a Pope (2009) - Piers Paul Read (03/07/1941-)  (Grade:A)

Death of a Red Heroine (2000) - Qiu Xiaolong (1953 -)  (Grade:A+)

Death of a Salesman (1949) - Arthur Miller (10/17/1915 -02/10/2015)  (Grade:F)

Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1988) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)  (Grade:A)

The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (1994) - Phillip K. Howard (-)  (Grade:B)

The Death of Napoleon [La Mort de Napoleon] (1986) - Simon Leys (1935-)  (Grade:A-)

The Death of Outrage : Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals (1998) - William J. Bennett (1943-)  (Grade:A-)

The Death of Satan : How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil (1995) - Andrew Delbanco ( -)  (Grade:C)

The Death of the Heart (1938) - Elizabeth Bowen (6/07/1899 -2/22/1973)  (Grade:D)

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization () - Patrick J. Buchanan (11/02/1938 -)  (Grade:A-)

Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross (2000) - Richard John Neuhaus (-)  (Grade:A+)

Death in Pont-Aven : A Case for Commissaire Dupin (2012) - Jean-Luc Bannalec (1966-)  (Grade:A)

The Debt to Pleasure (1996) - John Lanchester (1962-)  (Grade:A-)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) - Edward Gibbon (04/27/1737 -1794)  (Grade:B)

Deep and Crisp and Even (1981) - Peter Turnbull (1950-)  (Grade:A-)

The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) - Jacquelyn Mitchard (-)  (Grade:C-)

Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall (2004) - Chris Farrell (-)  (Grade:A+)

Defying Hitler: A Memoir [Geschichte eines Deutschen] (2000) - Sebastian Haffner (1907-1999)  (Grade:A+)

Deliverance (1970) - James Dickey (2/02/1923 -1/19/1997)  (Grade:A+)

Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred (2005) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924 -)  (Grade:D)

Democracy in America (2000) - Harvey C. Mansfield (3/21/1932 -)  (Grade:A+)

Democracy: An American Novel (1880) - Henry Brooks Adams (1838 -1918)  (Grade:B)

Democracy: The Two Majorities (1963) - Willmoore Kendall (1909 -6/30/1967)  (Grade:A)

The Demolished Man (1953) - Alfred Bester (1913-1987)  (Grade:A-)

Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (1994) - Jonathan Rauch (1960-)  (Grade:B+)

The Denial of Death (1973) - Ernest Becker (9/27/1924 -3/06/1974)  (Grade:D+)

Descent into Hell (1937) - Charles Williams (1886 -1945)  (Grade:B)

Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam (2001) - Jack Todd (1946-)  (Grade:F)

Desolation Island (1978) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)  (Grade:A)

Created, the Destroyer (1971) - Warren Murphy (9/13/1933-9/04/2015)  (Grade:C+)

The Destructors (1954) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)  (Grade:A)

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) - Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)  (Grade:A)

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2003) - Erik Larson (-)  (Grade:A)

The Devil's Cure (2000) - Kenneth Oppel (1967-)  (Grade:B-)

The Devil's Dictionary [The Cynic's Word Book] (1911) - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)  (Grade:A)

The Devil's Halo (2005) - Chris Fox (-)  (Grade:A)

The Devil's Star [Marekors] (2003) - Jo Nesbo (03/29/1960 -)  (Grade:B+)

The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) - Ivan Turgenev (11/09/1818 -9/03/1883)  (Grade:B+)

The Diary of a Young Girl : The Definitive Edition (1947) - Anne Frank (6/12/1929 -February 1945)  (Grade:A)

Diaspora (1997) - Greg Egan (1961-)  (Grade:C)

The Dice Man (1971) - Luke Rhinehart (11/15/1932 -11/06/2020)  (Grade:A-)

Dictatorships and Double Standards : Rationalism and Reason in Politics (1982) - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (11/19/1926 -12/07/2006)  (Grade:A)

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926 (Second Edition, 1965)) - H. W. Fowler (1858-1933)  (Grade:A+)

A Discovery of Witches (2010) - Deborah E. Harkness (1965-)  (Grade:C+)

Dissolution (2004) - C. J. Sansom (-)  (Grade:A)

Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It (2005) - Noah Feldman (1970-)  (Grade:A)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir Of Life In Death (1997) - Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952-1997)  (Grade:A+)

Doctor Janeway's Plague (2000) - John Farrell (-)  (Grade:B-)

Doctor Zhivago (1956) - Boris Pasternak (02/10/1890 -5/30/1960)  (Grade:B-)

Dog Eat Dog (1996) - Edward Bunker (12/31/1933-07/19/2005)  (Grade:B)

The Dog of the South (1979) - Charles McColl Portis (12/28/1933 -2/17/2020)  (Grade:B-)

A Dog's Ransom (1972) - Patricia Highsmith (01/19/1921 -2/04/1995)  (Grade:B)

Dom Casmurro (1899) - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 -1908)  (Grade:A+)

Dominic (1972) - William Steig (1907-)  (Grade:A+)

Don Quijote (Part 1--1605, Part 2--1615) (1615) - Miquel de Cervantes (9/29/1547 -4/22/1616)  (Grade:A+)

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) - George Lakoff (1941-)  (Grade:D)

Double Indemnity (1935) - James M Cain (7/1/1892 -10/27/77)  (Grade:A+)

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (1994) - John Ralston Saul (1947-)  (Grade:B+)

Dr. No (1958) - Ian Fleming (05/28/1908 -8/12/1964)  (Grade:B+)

Dr. Sam Johnson: Detector (1946) - Lillian de la Torre (03/15/1902-1993)  (Grade:A+)

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (2002) - Olivia Judson (-)  (Grade:B-)

The Draining Lake : A Reykjavik Thriller (2004) - Arnaldur Indridason (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A+)

Drawing Life : Surviving the Unabomber (1997) - David Gelernter (-)  (Grade:A-)

Dreamer: A Novel (1998) - Charles R. Johnson (1948-)  (Grade:C)

Dreaming Jungles [Les Jungles Pensives] (1985) - Michel Rio (-)  (Grade:C+)

Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) - Andrei Makine (1957-)  (Grade:C+)

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998) - Thomas M. Disch (1940-)  (Grade:B-)

A Drink Before the War (1994) - Dennis Lehane (-)  (Grade:C)

Drood (2009) - Dan Simmons (04/04/1948-)  (Grade:B)

The Duke's Children (1879) - Anthony Trollope (04/24/1815-12/06/1882)  (Grade:B+)

Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert (10/08/1920 -2/11/1986)  (Grade:A+)

Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999) - Edmund Morris (-)  (Grade:A)