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Debjan
Debjan (দেবযান) is a 1946 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay that imagines the afterlife as a series of parallel worlds through which the souls of the dead travel.
Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor (日米開戦) is Tom Clancy's 1994 techno-thriller, the seventh Jack Ryan novel, in which Japanese industrialist Razio Yamata wages economic and military war on the US; its Capitol jetliner crash predates 9/11.
Debut novel
Debut novel: the first novel a writer publishes, also called a first novel; a publishing event marking a new novelist's arrival, shaped by advances, BookScan data, agents, and debut-only prizes such as the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Decembrist poetry
Decembrist poetry (декабристская поэзия) is the civic poetry of Russian noble revolutionaries who prepared the December 1825 uprising against tsarism, its leading figure Kondraty Ryleev.
Deception Point
Deception Point is Dan Brown's 2001 techno-thriller, his third novel, in which NRO analyst Rachel Sexton verifies a NASA Arctic meteorite find that proves a staged fraud tied to a US presidential election.
Decimation (comics)
Decimation (also M-Day) is Marvel's 2005 X-Men crossover storyline following House of M, launched by the one-shot Decimation: House of M – The Day After, in which the Scarlet Witch's 'No more mutants' depowers nearly all mutants.
Decolonising the Mind
Decolonising the Mind (1986), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's essay collection on the politics of language in African literature, arguing for writing in African languages and renouncing English for creative work.
Deep One
Deep Ones: fictional amphibious fish-frog humanoids by H.P. Lovecraft, hinted in Dagon (1917) and named in The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931). Not the 2021 film The Deep Ones. They serve Cthulhu, Dagon, and Hydra, interbreed with humans, and are immortal unless slain.
Deep Rivers
Deep Rivers (Los ríos profundos) is a 1958 novel by the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, following a fourteen-year-old boy at a boarding school in Abancay, Peru.
Deer Park
"Deer Park" (Luzhai, 鹿柴) is a twenty-character quatrain by the Tang poet Wang Wei, written at his Wangchuan estate and possibly the most translated of all Chinese poems.
Deewar Mein Ek Khirki Rahati Thi
Deewar Mein Ek Khirki Rahati Thi (दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थी) is a 1997 Hindi novel by Vinod Kumar Shukla that won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Defending Jacob
Defending Jacob: 2012 legal thriller novel by William Landay (Delacorte) and its 2020 Apple TV+ eight-episode limited series with Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, and Jaeden Martell, about an assistant DA whose 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Dehli ki Aakhri Shama
Dehli ki Aakhri Shama (دہلی کی آخری شمع) is a classic Urdu prose sketch by Mirza Farhatullah Baig, published in 1927, portraying the last great mushaira of Mughal Delhi.
Dei Sepolcri
Dei Sepolcri (Of the Sepulchres) is a 1807 poem of 295 unrhymed hendecasyllables by Ugo Foscolo, dedicated to Ippolito Pindemonte and arguing that tombs matter for the living.
Dekada '70
Dekada '70 is a 1983 Filipino novel by Lualhati Bautista following a middle-class Manila family through Marcos's Martial Law, winner of the 1983 Palanca Grand Prize and adapted into a 2002 film.
Delhi Gadhakal
Delhi Gadhakal (ദൽഹി ഗാഥകൾ), translated as Delhi: A Soliloquy, is a 2011 Malayalam novel by M. Mukundan following Malayali migrants in Delhi from the 1960s onward; its English translation won the 2020 JCB Prize.
Deliverance from Error
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (المنقذ من الضلال, "Deliverance from Error") is an autobiography by al-Ghazali, written around 1105 in Nishapur, recounting his search for certain knowledge through doubt, theology, philosophy, and finally Sufism.
Della Duck
Della Duck, also called Dumbella Duck, is a Disney character created in 1937 by Al Taliaferro and Ted Osborne; Donald Duck's twin sister and mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, long comics-only until the 2017 DuckTales reboot.
Della famiglia
Della famiglia, also known as I libri della famiglia, is a four-book dialogue on family life by Leon Battista Alberti, written between 1432 and 1441.
Demain, dès l'aube
"Demain, dès l'aube" is a short 1856 poem by Victor Hugo from Les Contemplations, a farewell to his daughter Léopoldine, who drowned in the Seine in 1843, and one of his best-known works.
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (天龙八部)
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (天龙八部, Tianlong Babu) is Jin Yong's wuxia novel serialized in Ming Pao 1963–1966, set in Northern Song with heroes Qiao Feng, Duan Yu, and Xuzhu, partly ghostwritten by Ni Kuang and widely adapted.
Demian
Demian (Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend) is Hermann Hesse's 1919 Bildungsroman, published pseudonymously, about Emil Sinclair's self-becoming under Max Demian's guidance, shaped by Jungian psychoanalysis and Nietzsche, and embraced by postwar youth.
Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver's 2022 Harper novel, retells Dickens's David Copperfield in Appalachian Virginia during the opioid crisis, following Damon Fields through foster care and addiction; it won the shared 2023 Pulitzer Prize and the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Demon King Daimao
Demon King Daimao (Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou) is a Japanese light novel series by Shōtarō Mizuki, published by Hobby Japan, following a student predicted to become the Demon King.
Demon Lord, Retry! (魔王様、リトライ！)
Demon Lord, Retry! (魔王様、リトライ！, Maō-sama, Ritorai) is a Kurone Kanzaki isekai light novel begun on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2016, published by Futabasha, with manga by Amaru Minotake and 2019 and 2024 anime adaptations.
Demons (Бесы) (Dostoevsky novel)
Demons (Бесы, also The Possessed) is Dostoevsky's sixth novel, serialized in Russky Vestnik 1871–1872. A response to the Nechaev murder case, set around Stavrogin and Verkhovensky, it lost the chapter "At Tikhon's" to Katkov's censorship and was banned in the USSR 1935–1957.
Demons' Crest (デモンズ・クレスト)
Demons' Crest (デモンズ・クレスト) is a Dengeki Bunko light novel series by Reki Kawahara, author of Sword Art Online, with art by Yukiko Horiguchi: an MR death game for a sixth-grade class, four volumes since 2022, plus manga and a 2026 Production I.G anime.
Den første Sne
"Den første Sne" (Danish for "The First Snow") titles several Nordic poems and songs, the best known a playful 1872 poem by the Danish writer Fr. Winkel Horn.
Den Poezii
Den Poezii (День поэзии, "The Day of Poetry") is a Russian-language annual poetry almanac first published in Moscow in 1956, the principal showcase of Russian poetry in the Soviet era.
Den stora gåtan
Den stora gåtan (The Great Enigma) is a 2004 poetry collection by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, published by Albert Bonniers förlag, his last major new collection.