Departing at dawn

A young woman flees Argentina's Dirty War but cannot leave her past behind.

Desolación

Our commemorative bilingual edition of Desolación celebrates the centennary of the first poetry anthology by the 1945 Nobel laureate.

Destroy, she said

Diary of a jewish muslim

Egyptian Muslims and Jews were not always at odds. Before the Arab–Israeli wars, before the mass exodus of Jews from Egypt, there was harmony. Spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, this sweeping novel accompanies Galal, a young boy with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, through his childhood and bo...

Difficult women

Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passiona...

Dinner with osama

In this short story collection, Marilyn Krysl gets us to empathize with characters who are simply too unhappy or idealistic to be much fun.

Dionysiaca

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adventure explores the birth, upbringing, exploits, and ultimate apotheosis of the god Dionysus,...

Disintegration of the atom and petersburg winters

Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.”

Disoriental

In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she ...

Disruption: new short fiction from africa

Dissent, disease, disaster: introducing Disruption, a short story collection from new and emerging African writers, many for the first time on North American shelves. Spanning genres, eras, and the African continent, from Libya, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and beyond, the...

Distance no object

Do not forsake me, oh my darling

Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling contains ten darkly funny short stories by Maura Stanton. Anything can happen in this swiftly narrated book, which provides glimpses of Gertrude Stein playing Ping-Pong with a G.I. in Paris during World War II, a famous contemporary writer giving a haircut in a ba...

Doctor zay

The heroine of this novel, a rational, rural Maine physician, finds herself courted by a patient whose bones she has patched together after an accident. He is a Boston lawyer who insists that marriage will not end her career. In Doctor Zay, Phelps takes on a subject unusual for 1882: the conflict...

Doctored evidence

“A smart and stylish fast-paced case of intrigue and corruption” in the Venetian-set, New York Times–bestselling mystery series (Los Angeles Times).After a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her Venetian apartment, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared and is heading f...

Dogs and wolves

From the master of French noir and winner of the French Voices Prize, a gripping mystery about the blossoming of poisonous passions set in the brooding landscapes of Gironde, France When Franck gets out after five years in jail, he expects to find the brother he protected with his silence—instead...

Don quixote

“Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality…The parody has become a paragon.”-Vladimir Nabokov “A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with…The final and greates...

Don quixote

Don quixote of la mancha

Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha—called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel—inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Eac...

Don't forget me, little bessie

A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF 2025Longlisted for the 2026 CWA Gold Dagger AwardBestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie HollandAt the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human a...

Don't stop

“Friedman writes with the female fury of Ferrante.”—Lauren Yu-Ting Bo, On the Seawall A daring, erotically charged novel about ambition, desire, and the dangerous pursuit of self-knowledge.  Ina is a 41-year-old literary scholar on the cusp of professional success. With a coveted university job, ...

Don't try this at home

From fairy-tale gifts to gutter living, via your Mum becoming Elvis, Angela Readman’s award-winning stories display Angela Carteresque magic

Don't turn around

The police call him Merkury. He’s a killer who seems to choose his victims at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. But what did she really see?When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of ...

Don't you know there's a war on?

Joan revisits her life, blighted by WW2, drawing her daughter into her imaginings and desires. The boundaries between them collapse.

Dora bruder

2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Cath...

Dorian

Henry Wotton, gay, drug addicted, and husband of Batface, the irrefutably aristocratic daughter of the Duke of This or That, is at the center of a clique dedicated to dissolution. His friend Baz Hallward, an artist, has discovered a young man who is the very epitome of male beauty — Dorian Gray. ...

Double happiness

Best-selling author Mary-Beth Hughes delivers a seductive, deeply human, and sophisticated collection about the universal need to be loved, and the complicated imperfections that jeopardize the ties that bind us.The stories in Double Happiness are extraordinary portrayals of the ordinariness of l...

Double negative

Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white.

Down along the piney

Down Along the Piney is a touching collection of short stories that provides ironic and poignantly honest perspectives of rural American communities across the country.

Downers grove

This dark tale of a high school girl's coming of age in modern suburbia is "an electrifying portrayal of adolescent angst" from the author of Bongwater (Booklist).Downers Grove is the haunting and tender story of Chrissie Swanson, a high school senior for whom graduating has become a matter of li...

Dr. faustus

The story of Dr. Faustus is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil.

Dr. jekyll and mr. hyde

The novella revolves around the investigation by London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson, concerning the association between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil, morally corrupt Edward Hyde, to whom Jekyll has recently willed his estate.

Dracula

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Dracula the graphic novel: original text

A full-color graphic novel adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, pairing authentic text and dialogue with dramatic illustrations for classroom study and independent reading. “I went down into the vaults. There lay the Count! He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which — for the eyes were o...

Dracula the graphic novel: quick text

A full-color graphic novel adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, using streamlined text and dramatic illustrations to support fast, accessible reading. “I went down into the vaults. There lay the Count! He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which — for the eyes were open and stony but with...

Dracula's guest

In this intriguing literary fragment an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal.

Dragon palace

Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of ...

Dragons

These stories by Leung Ping Kwan, “See Mun and the Dragon” and “Drowned Souls,” are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways very different, yet dragons play a prominent part in both. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s idea of freedom and liberation.

Dream angus

The powerful retelling of the Celtic myth of Angus, god of dreams, from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author

Dream of ding village

Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke’s most important novel to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling scandal in contemporary China. As the book open...

Dream of the red chamber

"One of the great novels of world literature…to the Chinese as Proust is to the French or Karamazov to the Russians." —Anthony West, literary criticDream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is renowned for its epic scope, rich psychological characterizations and telling obse...

Dream your animal dreams

In Dream Your Animal Dreams, Carole Martinez crafts a haunting, visionary novel that entwines the personal with the global in a tale of dreams, survival, and transformation.  With her eight-year-old daughter Lucie in her arms, Eva—a neurologist specializing in sleep—retreats to the isolated marsh...

Drowning tucson

Hi-def, brutally honest tales from the streets of Tucson.Set in Tucson’s toughest neighborhoods during the late 1980s, this riveting debut follows the disintegration of the Nuñez family and the people whose paths they cross. From young gangbangers to crooked cops, and from murderous vigilantes to...

Drumbeat

In a fictional Gulf country, with its gleaming glass towers and imported greenery, the routine of day-to-day life is suddenly interrupted when the national football team qualifies for the World Cup. The Emir issues an edict ordering all native Emiratis to travel to France to support the team, lea...

Dry powder

The same week his private equity firm forced massive layoffs at a national grocery chain, Rick threw himself an extravagant engagement party, setting off a publicity nightmare. Fortunately, Seth, one of Rick’s partners, has a win-win deal to invest in an American-made luggage company for a song a...

Dubliners

James Joyce's first major work, Dubliners provides a fascinating snapshot of early 20th century life in Ireland, bringing his city to the world for the first time.

Ducks, newburyport

A form-breaking torrent of consciousness, narrated by an Ohio mother besieged by MAGA hats and mountain lions.

Dust

When it comes to finding dirt, Evan Reed is the best in the business. She’s a “dust-buster”—a paid operative hired by political campaigns to vet candidates for national office. When she is hired to investigate the background of a squeaky-clean senator who might just be the next president—the last...