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The Death of Vivek Oji
The Death of Vivek Oji is a 2020 novel by the Nigerian writer Akwaeke Emezi, published by Riverhead Books and a New York Times bestseller.
The Decameron
The Decameron (Decameron), Boccaccio's 100-novella frame-tale collection of c. 1350–1375, told by ten Florentines fleeing the 1348 Black Death; autograph Hamilton 90, Branca edition, Chaucer and COVID-era rewritings.
The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying is an 1889 dialogue essay by Oscar Wilde arguing that life imitates art and that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is art's proper aim.
The Deerslayer
The Deerslayer is an 1841 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the last of five Leatherstocking Tales written yet first in the chronology, showing Natty Bumppo as a young hunter.
The Defence of Poesy
The Defence of Poesy is an essay by Sir Philip Sidney defending poetry, published in 1595 and regarded as the first major work of English literary criticism.
The Defense
The Defense (Russian: Zashchita Luzhina) is a 1930 novel by Vladimir Nabokov about a Russian chess grandmaster who retreats into the game and is destroyed when life and chess merge.
The Delicious Adventures of Dampier (ダンピアのおいしい冒険)
The Delicious Adventures of Dampier (ダンピアのおいしい冒険) is Tomato Soup's historical adventure food manga about the real 17th-century English explorer William Dampier, serialized from 2019 on East Press's Matogrosso, collected in six volumes (2020-2024), and revived on COMIC ポルタ.
The Demesne of the Swans
The Demesne of the Swans (Лебединый стан, Lebediny Stan) is a book of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva about the Russian Civil War, written 1917–1921 and first published in Munich in 1957.
The Demon of Unrest
The Demon of Unrest (Crown, April 30, 2024) is Erik Larson's #1 New York Times bestselling narrative history of the five months from Lincoln's 1860 election to the surrender of Fort Sumter.
The Department of Truth
The Department of Truth is an ongoing Image Comics horror series by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds in which belief makes conspiracy theories real and a secret US agency, led by Lee Harvey Oswald, manages reality against the Soviet Ministry of Lies.
The Descent of Alette
The Descent of Alette is a 1992 epic poem by Alice Notley, following a woman through a subway underworld on a quest to destroy the tyrant.
The Deserted Village
The Deserted Village is a 430-line poem in heroic couplets by Oliver Goldsmith, first published in London in 1770, lamenting rural depopulation through the fictional village of Auburn.
The Detective Is Already Dead (探偵はもう、死んでいる。)
The Detective Is Already Dead (探偵はもう、死んでいる。, Tantei wa Mō, Shinde Iru.) is a Japanese light novel series by Nigozyu, illustrated by Umibouzu, MF Bunko J, 2019; Grand Prize, 15th MF Bunko J Rookie Award; anime 2021, Season 2 October 2026.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is Donald Ray Pollock's 2011 debut novel (Doubleday), an Appalachian gothic set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia from World War II through the 1960s, following Arvin Russell, serial-killing couple Carl and Sandy Henderson, and corrupt preachers and lawmen; adapted as a 2020 Netflix film by Antonio Campos starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson.
The Devil All the Time (film)
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 Netflix crime drama directed by Antonio Campos, adapted from Donald Ray Pollock's 2011 novel, starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson, released September 16, 2020, 138 minutes, mixed reviews.
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Devil and Daniel Webster is Stephen Vincent Benét's 1936 American Faust short story: farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul to Mr. Scratch, and Daniel Webster wins it back before a jury of criminals, an O. Henry Award winner adapted to stage, opera, and the 1941 film All That Money Can Buy.
The Devil in the Flesh
The Devil in the Flesh (Le Diable au corps) is a 1923 novel by French writer Raymond Radiguet about a teenage boy's affair with a soldier's wife.
The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
The Devil Is a Part-Timer! (はたらく魔王さま!, Hataraku Maou-sama!) is a reverse-isekai light novel by Satoshi Wagahara and 029 (Dengeki Bunko, 2011–2020, 21 volumes, 3.5 million copies) in which Demon Lord Satan works at MgRonald's in Tokyo; adapted into manga by Akio Hiiragi and two anime seasons.
The Devil Wears Prada (novel)
The Devil Wears Prada is Lauren Weisberger's 2003 Doubleday debut novel, a roman à clef about assistant Andy Sachs and Runway editor Miranda Priestly, inspired by Weisberger's year working for Vogue's Anna Wintour; it spent a year on the NYT bestseller list and spawned a 2006 film and a musical.
The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is a satirical dictionary of cynical definitions, serialized in San Francisco newspapers from 1881 and published complete in 1911 after the 1906 A-to-L Cynic's Word Book.
The Devil's Elixirs
The Devil's Elixirs (Die Elixiere des Teufels) is a Gothic novel by the German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann, published anonymously in two volumes in 1815 and 1816.
The Devil's Pool
The Devil's Pool (French: La Mare au Diable) is an 1846 pastoral novel by George Sand, telling of a young widowed farmer in Berry who finds a second wife.
The Devil's Star
The Devil's Star (Marekors) is Jo Nesbø's fifth Harry Hole crime novel, Aschehoug 2003, first of the series translated into English (Don Bartlett, 2010), about Oslo serial killings signed by red star diamonds and a riddle of fives.
The Devils (Abercrombie novel)
The Devils (2025) by Joe Abercrombie is the first book of a dark-fantasy trilogy set in alternate medieval Europe, where a female pope sends thief Alex and a crew of monsters to claim Troy's throne; sequel The Heretics due 2027, film rights held by James Cameron's Lightstorm.
The Devotion of Suspect X
The Devotion of Suspect X (容疑者Xの献身) is Keigo Higashino's 2005 Japanese crime novel in which mathematician Ishigami covers up his neighbor Yasuko's killing of her ex-husband; it won the 134th Naoki Prize, sold over two million copies in Japan, and was adapted into Japanese, Korean, and Chinese films.
The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac, following writer Ray Smith and mountaineer-poet Japhy Ryder through San Francisco parties and High Sierra climbs.
The Diary of a Country Priest
The Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a 1936 novel by Georges Bernanos about a young priest in his first rural parish.
The Diary of a Country Prosecutor
The Diary of a Country Prosecutor (Yawmiyyat Na'ib fi al-Aryaf, يوميات نائب في الأرياف) is a 1937 novel by Tawfiq al-Hakim, written as a rural prosecutor's diary.
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody is a comic novel by George and Weedon Grossmith, written as the diary of pompous City clerk Charles Pooter in Victorian London.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl, also Het Achterhuis, is Anne Frank's wartime diary written in hiding in Amsterdam 1942-1944, compiled by Otto Frank and published 25 June 1947, now in over 75 languages.