The Daily Show
- America: The Book, Satire, 2006
Roald Dahl — 20th Century Author (mown for children’s stories)
- The BFG, Juvenile Novel, 2014
Susan Daitch – 21st Century British Author
- L.C., Novel, 2011
d’Ambrosio
- Life of Touching Mouths, Poetry Collection
Richard Henry Dana
- Two Years Before the Mast, Historical Fiction, 1968
Mark Z. Danielewski
- House of Leaves, Novel, 2006
- The Fifty Year Sword, Novel, 2013
Edwidge Danticat — 20th Century Haitian Author
- Breath, Eyes, Memory, Novel. 1998
- The Dew Breaker, Novel. 2004
- The Farming of Bones, Novel, 2004
Evelyn Dar — 21st Century Author
- Clickbait, Novel, 2022
Evan Dara — 21st Century American Author [pseudonym]
- Flee, Novel, 2020
- The Lost Scrapbook, Novel, 2021
Ann Darr
- St. Ann’s Gut, Poetry Collection
Charles Darwin — 19th Century British Author and Scientist
- The Origin of the Species, Essay, 2023
Durjoy Datta
- The English Teacher, Short Novel, 2018/2020
Alponse Daudet
- Sappho, Novel, 2004
Barbey d’Aurevilly
- Les Diaboliques, Story Collection, 2010
Davenant
- Macbeth, Drama, 1967
D. W. Davies, D. L. A. Barker, W. L. Price, C. M. Solomonides
- Computer Networks and Their Protocols, Non-Fiction (Business)
Robertson Davies — 20th Century Canadian Novelist
- Murther & Walking Spirits, Novel, 1999
- The Cunning Man, Novel, 2005
Peter Ho Davies — 21st Century British (Welsh/Chinese) Author
- A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, Novel, 2921
Davis
- The Pretenders, Novel (Popular Fiction)
Clive Davis
- Clive: Inside the Record Business, Non-Fiction (Business)
Lydia Davis — 20th Century American Author
- The End of the Story, Novel, 2022
Lindsey Davis
- The Silver Pigs, Novel (Mystery), 1993
Richard Dawkins
- River Out of Eden, Non-Fiction, 2011
- The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Non-Fiction, 2022
Clarence Day
- Life With Father, Novel, 1964
Peggy J. Day
- Microsoft Project 4.0 for Windows and the Macintosh: Setting Project Management Standards, Non-Fiction, 1999
Osamu Dazai
- The Setting Sun, Novel, 2004
Alain de Botton
- How Proust Can Change Your Life, Non-Fiction (Literature), 1999
- The Romantic Movement, Novel, 2000
- Kiss & Tell, Novel, 2000
- On Love, Novel, 2000
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Non-Fiction (Philosophy), 2006
De Felitta
- Audrey Rose, Novel (Suspense)
- Golgotha Falls, Novel (Suspense)
Thomas DeQuincy
- Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Essay, 2001
Garcia de Verga
- The Sheep Well, Drama, 1968
De-Nur
- Star Eternal, Novel (Suspense)
Babs H. Deal
- The Crystal Mouse, Novel (Mystery)
Abigail Dean — 21st Century British Author
- Girl A, Novel, 2104
John Dean — 20th Century American Political Figure
- Blind Ambition, Non-Fiction
Jeffery Deaver — 20/21st Century American Author
- The Bone Collector, Novel, 2021
- The Coffin Dancer, Novel, 2022
- The Empty Chair, Novel, 2022
- The Stone Monkey, Novel, 2022
- Manhattan Is My Beat, Novel, 2023
Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders, Novel
- Robinson Crusoe, Novel, 1958
- A Journal of the Plague Year, Non-Fiction (History), 2001
- Roxana, Novel, 2019
- Colonel Jack, Novel, 2023
Len Deighton
- The Ipcress File, Adventure Novel
Delany
- The Ballad of Beta-2, 1977, Novel (Science Fiction)
Don DeLillo — 20th Century American Novelist
- Running Dog, Novel, 1997
- Great Jones Street, Novel, 1997
- Underworld, Novel, 1998
- Players, Novel, 1999
- The Body Artist, Novel, 2001
- Mao II, Novel, 2003
- Cosmopolis, Novel, 2003
- White Noise, Novel, 2003
- Falling Man: A Novel, Novel, 2007
- Zero K, Novel, 2016
- End Zone, Novel, 2016
- Point Omega: A Novel, Novel, 2016
- The Names, Novel, 2017
- The Silence, Short Novel, 2020
- Ratner’s Star, Novel, 2021
- Libra, Novel, 2021
- Americana, Novel, 2021
Giorgio De Maria — 20th Century Italian Writer
- The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel, Novel, 2020
David Denby
- Great Books, Non-Fiction (Literature), 2002
- Lit Up, Non-Fiction (Literature), 2021
Lester Dent — 20th Century American Author
- Honey In His Mouth, Novel, 2021
Anita Desai
- Clear Light of Day, Novel, 2009
- The Artist of Disappearance, Novella Collection, 2015
- The Museum of Final Journeys, Short Novel, 2017
Kiran Desai
- The Inheritance of Loss, Novel, 2007
Pamela Des Barres — 20th Century American Rock ‘n’ Roll Groupie
- I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, 1987, Autobiography
Anne Desclos — 20th Century French Author [ndp Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage]
- L’Histoire d’O, Novel (Erotica), 1964
DeVries
- Into Your Tent I’ll Creep, 1977, Novel (Science Fiction)
Helen DeWitt — 20th Century American/British Writer
- The Last Samurai, Novel, 2001
Bavo Dhooge — 21st Century Flemish Author
- Styx, Novel, 2021
Junot Diaz
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Novel, 2009
Phillip K. Dick — 20th Century American Science Fiction writer
- A Maze of Death, Novel, 1977
- The Three Stignata of Palmer Eldritch, Novel, 1977
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Novel, 1977/2005
- The Man in the High Castle, Novel, 2006
- Ubik, Novel, 2013
- Time Out of Joint, Novel, 2015
- Now Wait For Last Year, Novel, 2016
- Valis, Novel, 2022
- The Divine Invasion, Novel, 2022
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Novel, 2022
Charles Dickens — 19th Century English Novelist
- Martin Chuzelwit, Novel, 1979
- The Pickwick Papers, Novel, 1979
- Oliver Twist, Novel, 1974/1998
- Great Expectations, Novel, 1978
- A Tale of Two Cities, Novel, 1978
- Bleak House, Novel, 1978 [not finished]
- A Christmas Carol, Short Novel, 1958
- David Copperfield, Novel, 1999
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Novel, 2000
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Novel (unfinished), 2002
- Hard Times, Novel, 2005
- Our Mutual Friend, Novel, 2020
- Dombey and Sons, Novel, 2020
- Nicolas Nickelby, Novel, 2020
- Barnaby Rudge, Novel, 2020
- Little Dorrit, Novel, 2021
- The Cricket On the Hearth, Short Novel, 2021
- A House To Let, Novel, 2021 (with Wilkie Collins & Elizabeth Gaskell)
James Dickey — 20th Century American Poet & Novelist
- Buckdancer’s Choice, Poetry Collections, 1966
- Drowning With Others, Poetry Collections, 1966
- Helmet, Poetry Collections, 1966
- Deliverance, Novel, 1973
- To the White Sea, Novel, 2017
William Dickey —
- More Under Saturn, Poetry Collections, 1966
Nicholas Dickner — 21 Century Canadian Author
- Nikolski, Novel, 2010
Gordon R. Dickson — 20th Century Canadian/American Author (Science Fiction)
- Dorsai!, Novel (Science Fiction), 1977
- Necromancer, Novel (Science Fiction), 1977
- Tactics of Mistake, Novel (Science Fiction), 1977
Denis Diderot — 18th Century French Author and Encyclopedist
- Jacques the Fatalist, Novel, 2012
Joan Didion — 20th Century American Writer
- Democracy, Literature
- After Henry, Essay Collection, 2004
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Essay, 2008
- Play It As It Lays: A Novel, Novel, 2013
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Essay Collection, 2017
- The Last Thing He Wanted, Novel, 2022
- A Book of Common Prayer, Novel, 2022
Annie Dillard — 20th Century American Writer
- Living By Fiction, Essay, 2004
- Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Essay, 2017
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni — 21st Century Indian/American Novelist
- The Mistress of Spices, Novel, 2006
- Before We Visit the Goddess, Novel, 2017
Stephen Dixon — 20th Century American Writer
- Interstate, Novel, 1997
- Sleep, Story Collection, 2002
- Gould, Novel, 2002
- Old Friends, Novel, 2005
- 14 Stories, Story Collection, 2006
- Meyer, Novel, 2009
- Long Made Short, Story Collection, 2009
- Phone Rings, Novel, 2009
- Frog, Novel, 2020
- Garbage, Novel, 2107
Alfred Döblin
- Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Fritz Biberkopf, Novel, 2006
E. L. Doctorow — 20th Century American Novelist
- Ragtime, Popular Fiction (Novel), 1976
- City of God, Popular Fiction (Novel), 2001
- The March, Novel, 2006
Mary Mapes Dodge
- Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, Novel (Juvenile), 1957
Owen Dodson
- Powerful Long Ladder, Poetry Collection
Harriet Doerr
- Stones For Ibarra, Novel, 2013
Kevin L. Donihe — 21 Century Author in Bizarro Genre
- The Greatest Fucking Moment in Sports, Short Novel, 2007
- Night of the Assholes, Novel, 2022
J. P. Donleavy
- The Gingerman, Novel, 1970
- The Lady Who Like Clean Rest Rooms, Short Novel, 1999
- Wrong Information Is Being Given Out At Princeton, Novel, 1999
- The Onion Eaters, Novel, 2000
- Schultz, Novel, 2021
Emma Donoghue
- Slammerkin, Novel, 2005
José Donoso – 20th Century Chilean Author
- The Obscene Bird of Night, Novel, 2011
- Curfew, Novel, 2011
Ariel Dorfman — 20th Century Chilean Author
- Konfidenz, Novel, 2006
- Mascara: A Novel, Novel, 2016
- Homeland Security Ate My Speech: Messages from the End of the World, Essay Collection, 2021
- The Rabbit’s Rebellion, Children’s Fable, 2021
- Darwin’s Ghosts: A Noel. Novel, 2022
- Widows, Novel, 2022
John Dos Passos — 20th Century American Author
- Three Soldiers, Novel, 1999
- Manhattan Transfer, Novel, 2009
- One Man’s Initiation-1917, Novel, 2012
- A Pushcart at the Curb, Poetry Collection, 2012
- The 42nd Parallel, Novel, 2013 [USA Trilogy]
- 1919, Novel, 2014 [USA Trilogy]
- The Big Money, Novel, 2019 [USA Trilogy]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky — 19th Century Russian Author
- The Brothers Karamozov, Novel, 1968
- The Double, Short Novel, 1967
- The Eternal Husband, Short Novel, 1967
- Notes From the Underground, Short Novel, 1967
- Crime and Punishment, Novel, 1994
- The Idiot, Novel, 2001
- The House of the Dead, Novel, 2020
- Poor Folk, Novel, 2021
- Demons, Novel, 2021
- The Adolescent, Novel, 2022
- The Gambler, Novel, 2022
Coleman Dowell
- Too Much Flesh and Jabez, Novel
- Houses of Children, Short Story Collection, 2007
Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Lost World, Adventure Novel, 1962
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mystery Story Collection, 1981
- A Study In Scarlett, Novel (Mystery), 1981
- The Sign of the Four, Novel (Mystery), 1981
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Novel (Mystery), 1981
- Hard Case Crime: The Valley of Fear, Novel, 2022
Roddy Doyle — 20th Century Irish Novelist
- The Commitments, Novel, 1998
- The Snapper, Novel, 1998
- The Van, Novel, 1998
- The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, Novel, 1999
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Novel, 2000
- The Giggler Treatment, Short Novel, 2000
- A Star Called Henry, Novel, 2001
- O Play That Thing, Novel, 2005
- Paula Spencer, Novel, 2007
- Jimmy Jazz, Short Novel, 2017
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko — 21st Century Russian Writer
- Dust, Essay Collection, 2008
Slavenka Drakulic — 21st Century Croation Author
- A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism, Non-Fiction, 2016
Theodore Dreiser — 19th Century American Novelist
- Sister Carrie, Novel, 1966
- An American Tragedy, Novel, 1972
- Jennie Gerhardt, Novel, 2022
- The Financier, Novel, 2022
- The Titan, Novel, 2022
Allen Drury — 20th Century American Novelist
- Advise and Consent, Novel, 1977
John Dryden
- Absalom and Achitophel, Poetry Collection
- Essay on Dramatic Poetry, Essay
- All For Love, Drama, 1967
- Conquest of Granada, Part 1, Drama, 1967
- The Indian Queen, Drama. 1967
William Pène du Bois
- Twenty-One Balloons, Novel (Fantasy), 1957/1966
Rikki Ducornet — 20th Century American Writer
- The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade, Novel, 2002
- Phosphor in Dreamland, Novel, 2008
- The Stain, Novel, 2008
- The Complete Butcher’s Tales, Story Collection, 2008
- Entering Fire, Novel, 2008
- The Fountains of Neptune, Novell, 2008
- The Jade Cabinet, Novel, 2009
- Gazelle, Novel, 2009
- The One Marvelous Thing, Story Collection, 2011
- The Monstrous and the Marvelous, Collection, 2011
- The Word “Desire”, Story Collection, 2011
- Netsuke, Novel, 2013
- Trafik, Short Novel, 2104
Christophe Dufossé — 21st Century French Author
- School’s Out, Novel, 2008
John Dufresne — 20th Century American Novelist
- Louisiana Power & Light, Novel, 1997
- Love Warps the Mind a Little, Novel, 1998
- The Way That Water Enters the Stone, Short Story Collection, 1999
- Deep in the Shade of Paradise, Novel, 2003
Dugan
- Collected Poems, Poetry Collection, 1973
- Poems, Poetry Collection, 1973
- Poems 2, Poetry Collection, 1973
- Poems 3, Poetry Collection, 1973
George Du Marier — 19th Century French Novelist
- Trilby, Novel, 2000
Alexandre Dumas — 19th Century French Novelist
- The Three Musketeers, Novel, 1958/1998
- Fernande, Novel, 2000
- Castle Eppstein, Novel (Gothic), 2000
- Marguerite de Valois or Queen Margot, Novel, 2000
- The Black Tulip, Novel, 2000
- Twenty Years After, Novel, 2002
- Chicot the Jester, Novel, 2005
- The Forty-Five, Novel, 2006
- La Guerre des Femmes, Novel, 2007
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Novel, 2019
- The Vicomte de Bragellione, Novel, 2019
- Louise de la Vallière, Novel, 2020
- The Man In the Iron Mask, Novel, 2020
- The Corsican Brothers, Novel, 2023
Alexandre Dumas fils — 19th Century French Novelist and Stage Producer
- The Lady of the Camellias, Novel, 2000
Katherine Dunn — 20th Century American Novelist
- Geek Love, Novel, 2000
Marguerite Duras — 20th Century French Novelist
- L’Amante Anglaise, Novel, 1972
- Destroy, She Said, Novel, 1971
- The Lover, Novel, 1998
- Emily L., Novel, 1998
- The Square, Short Novel, 1998
- The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas, Novel, 1998
- Moderato Cantibile, Short Novel, 1998
- 10:30 on a Summer Night, Novel, 1998
- The Atlantic Man, Short Novel, 1998
- The Slut of the Normandy Coast, Short Novel, 1998
- The Sea Wall, Novel, 1998
- The North China Lover, Novel, 1998
- Hiroshima Mon Amour, Screenplay, 1998
- Summer Rain, Novel, 1999
- The Sailor from Gibraltar, Novel, 2004
- The Ravishing of Lol Stein, Novel, 2009
- The Vice-Consul, Novel, 2010
- The War, Memoir, 2013
Lawrence Durrell
- The Black Book, Novel, 1965
- Justine, Novel, 1996
- Balthazar, Novel, 1997
- Mountolive, Novel, 1999
- Clea, Novel, 1999
Andre Duza — 21st Century Writer of Bizarro Fiction
- Don’t F(beep)k With the Coloureds, Short Novel, 2007
- Jesus Freaks, Novel, 2014
- Express Elevator to Potential Nothingness (The Fate of Flight 2190), Story, 2014
Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) — 20th Century American Folk Singer and Poet
- Tarantula, Novel (?), 2018