Critically Acclaimed & Award Winning Novelists: A Selection of Literary Authors in our Collection

Authors with a surname starting with the letter "D"

(all with a sampling of their work and the topic/theme of each title)
(jr) indicates a more junior reading level

• Dangor, Achmat
• Bitter Fruit - call# F DAN (Effect of Racism on Self-image)


• Danticat, Edwidge
• Farming of Bones - call# F DAN (Genocide)


• Dashner, James (jr)
• The Maze Runner - call# F DAS (Amnesia)


• Davidson, Craig
• Cataract city - call# F DAV (Friendship / Conflicts)


• Davies, Robertson
• Fifth Business - call# F DAV (Davies' Deptford Trilogy)


• Dazai, Osamu
  • No longer human - call#: [F DAZ] (without sentimentality this world acclaimed author presents us tith a powerful exploration of an individual's alienation from society. The novel has come to "echo the sentiments of youth".)
  • The setting sun - - call#: [F DAZ] (This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. It probes the destructive effects of war and the from a feudal Japan to an industrial society.)
  
  
• Demchuk, David
  • The Bone mother - call#: F DEM (a fairytale that chills your marrow and tears at your heart)
  
  
• De Sa, Anthony
  • Barnacle Love - call# F DES (Immigrant Experience / Short Stories)
  
  
• Delillo, Don
• Underworld - call# F DEL (American Culture)
• White Noise - call# F DEL (Fear of Death)


• De Lint, Charles (jr)
• Blue girl - call# F DEL (Ghosts)


• Desai Hidier, Tanuja (jr)
• Born Confused - call# F DES (Identity / Cultural Diversity)


• Desai, Kiran
• Inheritance of Loss - call# F DES (Nationalism / Migration / Sense of Belonging)


• Dessen, Sarah (jr)
• This Lullaby - call# F DES (Love / Interpersonal Relations)


• Deuker, Carl (jr)
• Heart Of A Champion - call# F DEU (Adolescence)


• Dew, Robb Forman
• Dale Loves Sophie to Death - call# F DEW (Relationships)


• DeWitt, Patrick
• Sisters Brothers, The - call# F DEW (Gold Miners / Frontier and Pioneer Life)


• Dexter, Pete
• Paris Trout - call# F DEX (Social Conflict in the deep South)


• Diaz, Junot
• Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The - call# F DIA (Perseverance / Dominican-American experience)
• This is How You Lose Her - call# F DIA (Betrayal / Interpersonal Relations)


• Dibdin, Michael
• Dark Specter - call# F DIB (Cults)


• Dickinson, Peter
• Ropemaker - call# F DIC (Fantasy)
• Shadow Of A Hero - call# F DIC (Grandfathers)


• Diffenbaugh, Vanessa
• Language of Flowers - call# F DIF (Love Stories / Young Women)


• Dickens, Charles (jr)
• Great Expectations - call# F DIC (Irony of Expectation)


• Doctorow, E.L.
• The March - call# F DOC (Kaleidoscopic allegory of forward movement -- be it of war / history / change / time)
• World's Fair - call# F DOC (Boys' Coming of Age)


• Doerr, Anthony
• All the light we cannot see - call# F DOE (Survival / World War Two)


• Doerr, Harriet
• Stones for Ibarra - call# F DOE (Americans in Rural Mexico)


• Donati, Sara
• Into the Wilderness - call# F DON (Pioneer life - Women)


• Donoghue, Emma
• Room - call#: F DON (Mother and Son Relationship)


• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
• Crime and Punishment - call# F DOS (Russia - Poverty & hopelessness)


• Doyle, Brian (jr)
• Spud Sweetgrass - call# F DOY (Environmental protection)
• Mary Ann Alice - call# F DOY (Mystery / power plant construction)


• Doyle, Roddy (jr)
• Paddy Clarke ha ha ha - call# F DOY (Friendship)
• Woman who Walked into Doors - call# F DOY (Wife Abuse / Domestic Violence)


• Drury, Allen
• Advise and Consent - call# F DRU (Nomination of a former Communist Party member to be U.S. Secretary of State)


• Dubus lll, Andre
• House of Sand and Fog - call# F DUB (Immigrants)


• Du Maurier, Daphne (jr)
• Rebecca - call# F DUM (Romance)


• Dunn, Katherine
• Geek Love - call# F DUN (Circus Performers)


• Dylan, Bob
  • Tarantula - call#: F DYL (a collection of Dylan’s poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times)