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The Diary of Lei Feng
The Diary of Lei Feng (《雷锋日记》) is a compilation of entries by the Chinese soldier Lei Feng, published in 1963 and widely distributed in China.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the personal diary of English naval administrator Samuel Pepys, kept from 1660 to 1669 and published in 1825, recording the Restoration, the Great Plague, and the Great Fire of London.
The Diary of Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf is the five-volume published edition of the diaries she kept from January 1915 until March 1941, four days before her death, edited by Anne Olivier Bell.
The Director (Kehlmann novel)
The Director (Lichtspiel) is Daniel Kehlmann's seventh novel, translated by Ross Benjamin, a 2025 historical fiction reimagining director G.W. Pabst's Hollywood exile and Nazi-era filmmaking, centered on the lost film The Molander Case; shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize.
The Disappearers
The Disappearers is Marlon James's 2026 sixth novel (Riverhead; Hamish Hamilton), about eight gay men attacked while rehearsing a play in 1988 Kingston, Jamaica; Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, National Book Award longlist.
The Disaster Artist
The Disaster Artist (2017) is James Franco's comedy-drama adapting Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell's memoir about the making of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult film The Room; Dave Franco co-stars, and it won a Golden Globe.
The Disconnected
The Disconnected (Tutunamayanlar) is a 1971–1972 novel by the Turkish writer Oğuz Atay, in which engineer Turgut Özben investigates the suicide of his friend Selim Işık.
The Discovery of Heaven
The Discovery of Heaven (De ontdekking van de hemel) is a 1992 novel by the Dutch writer Harry Mulisch and his longest work, widely regarded as his magnum opus.
The Divan of Fuzuli
The Divan of Fuzuli (Dîvân-ı Fuẓūlī) is the Turkish poetry collection of the sixteenth-century poet Fuzuli, gathering qasidas, ghazals, and rubais in an idiom between Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turkish.
The Divine Invasion
The Divine Invasion (1981), Philip K. Dick's VALIS-trilogy novel (working title VALIS REGAINED), a science fiction nativity in which exiled God, Herb Asher, and Emmanuel confront Belial on Earth.
The Divine Narcissus
The Divine Narcissus (El divino Narciso) is a sacramental play by the Mexican nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, allegorizing the Eucharist through Narcissus.
The Dog in the Manger
The Dog in the Manger (El perro del hortelano) is a verse comedy by Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, written around 1613, about countess Diana's love for her secretary.
The dogs of war (phrase)
The dogs of war is an English phrase from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1601), Mark Antony's "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war," meaning to unleash uncontrollable violence, chaos, and the horrors of war.
The Doloriad
The Doloriad is Missouri Williams's 2022 debut novel (MCD/FSG US, Dead Ink UK), a post-apocalyptic story of an incestuous family ruled by the Matriarch near ruined Prague; winner of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize.
The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception is a 1954 essay by Aldous Huxley recounting his mescaline experience. It helped launch the psychedelic movement and coined the term "psychedelic."
The Double Flame
The Double Flame (La llama doble: amor y erotismo) is a 1993 essay by Mexican poet Octavio Paz on the relationship between sexuality, eroticism, and love.
The Double Helix
The Double Helix (1968) is James D. Watson's candid memoir of the 1951–1953 race to solve DNA's structure; originally titled "Honest Jim," rejected by Harvard University Press, it sold over a million copies and remains controversial for its portrayal of Rosalind Franklin.
The dragon (Beowulf)
The dragon (Beowulf): the unnamed fire-breathing, treasure-hoarding serpent of the Old English epic's final episode. Fifty feet long, it is woken by a thief, fought by Beowulf with Wiglaf, and kills the king.
The Dragon Can't Dance
The Dragon Can't Dance is a 1979 novel by the Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace that follows residents of Calvary Hill, Port of Spain, through annual Carnival and social change.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Сон смешного человека) is an 1877 confessional story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, in which a suicidal narrator dreams of a sinless paradise and corrupts it.
The Dream of the Celt
The Dream of the Celt (El sueño del celta) is a 2010 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, a fictionalized biography of Roger Casement, translated by Edith Grossman in 2012.
The Dream of the Rood
The Dream of the Rood is an Old English poem of 156 lines in which the cross of Christ's crucifixion recounts the Passion in its own voice.
The Dream Songs
The Dream Songs is a sequence of 385 poems by the American poet John Berryman, published in 1969, centered on the character Henry, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The Dreaming City
The Dreaming City is Michael Moorcock's first published Elric story (Science Fantasy #47, June 1961), in which Elric of Melniboné leads raiders to sack his capital Imrryr and kills cousin Yyrkoon; Cymoril dies on Stormbringer. Distinct from the 1972 Lancer paperback and Moers's City of Dreaming Books.
The Dresden Files
The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher's urban fantasy series begun with Storm Front (2000), follows wizard private investigator Harry Dresden in Chicago; planned as 23-24 books, known for its Evocation/Thaumaturgy magic system, a 2007 TV season, and a FATE RPG.
The Drifters (novel)
The Drifters is a 1971 Random House novel by James A. Michener about six young runaways of the Vietnam era drifting through Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and Mozambique, narrated by a sixty-one-year-old investment banker.
The Drinker of Horizons
The Drinker of Horizons (O Bebedor de Horizontes) is a 2017 historical novel by Mia Couto, the final volume of his Sands of the Emperor trilogy.
The Drover's Wife
The Drover's Wife is an 1892 short story by Henry Lawson about a bushwoman left alone to fight a snake while her husband is away droving sheep.
The Drunkard
The Drunkard (Jiutu, 酒徒) is a 1963 novel by Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang, about a hack writer drinking through 1960s Hong Kong, often called China's first stream-of-consciousness novel.
The Dry Salvages
The Dry Salvages is a meditative poem by T. S. Eliot, third of his Four Quartets, first published in 1941 and titled for rocks off Cape Ann, Massachusetts.