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The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Song of Susannah (2004) is book six of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, split between Mia's 1999 New York pregnancy of Susannah and Roland and Eddie's 1977 Maine search for the author as character.
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower is Stephen King's 2004 novel, the seventh and final book of the Dark Tower series, published by Donald M. Grant/Scribner, illustrated by Michael Whelan, ending Roland Deschain's quest with a looping ending.
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982) is Stephen King's first Dark Tower novel, following Roland Deschain across Mid-World's Mohaine Desert chasing the man in black; serialized 1978-1981, revised in 2003.
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Wind Through the Keyhole (Dark Tower 4.5) is Stephen King's 2012 eighth Dark Tower novel, set between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla; a story-within-a-story about young Roland hunting a skin-man and the fairy tale of Tim Ross.
The Darkening Ecliptic
The Darkening Ecliptic is a 1944 collection of sixteen modernist poems written by James McAuley and Harold Stewart as a hoax under the invented poet Ern Malley.
The Darkness That Comes Before
The Darkness That Comes Before (2003) is R. Scott Bakker's debut, Book One of the Prince of Nothing trilogy, set on Eärwa two millennia after the First Apocalypse, following the Dûnyain philosopher-warrior Anasûrimbor Kellhus amid a gathering holy war.
The Darkroom of Damocles
The Darkroom of Damocles (De donkere kamer van Damokles) is a 1958 Dutch novel by Willem Frederik Hermans about resistance, identity, and an ambiguous double.
The Daughter of Sláva
The Daughter of Sláva (Slávy dcera) is a lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Kollár, first published in 1824 and expanded into 645 sonnets by 1852.
The Daughter of the Demon Lord Is Too Kind!
The Daughter of the Demon Lord Is Too Kind! (Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!!, 魔王の娘は優しすぎる!!) is a Yuuya Sakamoto comedy manga (Manga Park, 2019–2025, 7 volumes) about the demon king's overly kind daughter Du, adapted into a 2026 EMT Squared TV anime.
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (Russian: И дольше века длится день) is a 1980 novel by Chingiz Aitmatov that blends Kazakh steppe life, folklore, and science fiction.
The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal: 1971 political thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about an OAS-hired English assassin targeting Charles de Gaulle in 1963; Edgar Award winner, adapted as the 1973 Zinnemann film, the 1997 The Jackal, and the 2024 series.
The Day the Crayons Quit
The Day the Crayons Quit is a 2013 picture book by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, in which Duncan's twelve crayons strike and send complaint letters; a No. 1 New York Times bestseller with sequel The Day the Crayons Came Home.
The Dead and the Living
The Dead and the Living is the second poetry collection by American poet Sharon Olds, published by Knopf in 1984 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Dead Lecturer
The Dead Lecturer is a 1964 poetry collection by Amiri Baraka, published as LeRoi Jones, marking his turn from Beat bohemianism toward race-conscious political poetry.
The Dead of the Desert
The Dead of the Desert (Metei Midbar) is an epic Hebrew poem by Hayim Nahman Bialik, written in 1902 in Odessa about the Israelites who died in the wilderness.
The Death Cure
The Death Cure is James Dashner's 2011 third Maze Runner novel (Delacorte Press), ending Thomas's conflict with WICKED over the Flare cure; adapted into the 2018 Wes Ball film that earned over $288 million worldwide.
The Death of a Government Clerk
The Death of a Government Clerk («Смерть чиновника») is an 1883 humorous story by Anton Chekhov about a clerk who dies after apologizing for sneezing on a general.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz (La muerte de Artemio Cruz) is a 1962 novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, a landmark work of the Latin American Boom.
The Death of Captain America
The Death of Captain America is the Marvel Comics storyline (Captain America #25-42, 2007-2008) by Ed Brubaker in which Steve Rogers is assassinated after Civil War and Bucky Barnes becomes the new Captain America.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Il'icha) is Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella about a St. Petersburg judge dying of a mysterious illness after a fall, his terror, and final acceptance of death.
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić
The Death of Smail-aga Čengić (Smrt Smail-age Čengića) is an 1846 epic poem by Ivan Mažuranić, telling of the Ottoman commander Smail-aga Čengić's death at Montenegrin hands.
The Death of Superman
The Death of Superman: 1992 DC Comics story arc across four Superman titles in which Superman dies fighting Doomsday in Superman #75 (2.5–3 million copies shipped), followed by Funeral for a Friend and Reign of the Supermen; repeatedly adapted in animation and film.
The Death of the Author
The Death of the Author (La mort de l'auteur) is Roland Barthes's essay, first published in English in Aspen in 1967, rejecting authorial intention as the source of a text's meaning and making the reader the site of interpretation; companion to Foucault's author-function.
The Death of the Bird
"The Death of the Bird" is a lyric poem by the Australian poet A. D. Hope about a migratory bird's final journey, dying in an indifferent universe.
The Death of the Heart
The Death of the Heart, a 1938 novel by Irish-born writer Elizabeth Bowen, follows sixteen-year-old orphan Portia Quayne in her half-brother's emotionally sterile London home; her innocent love for Eddie ends in betrayal.
The Death of the Hired Man
"The Death of the Hired Man" is a 1914 narrative poem in blank verse dialogue by Robert Frost, about a farm couple arguing over Silas, a dying former hired laborer.
The Death of the Lion
The Death of the Lion (A morte do leão) is an 1894 short story by Henry James, first published in the London journal The Yellow Book.
The Death of the Mother of the Jugovićes
The Death of the Mother of the Jugovićes (Смрт мајке Југовића) is a Serbian folk ballad in which a mother dies of grief after the Battle of Kosovo.
The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar
The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar (Смерть Вазир-Мухтара) is a 1929 historical novel by Yury Tynyanov recounting the final year of writer and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, murdered in Tehran in 1829.
The Death of Virgil
The Death of Virgil (German: Der Tod des Vergil) is a 1945 historical novel by the Austrian writer Hermann Broch, following the dying poet Virgil through his final eighteen hours at Brundisium.