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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School, book 10 of Jeff Kinney's series, published November 3, 2015 by Amulet/Abrams; Greg Heffley faces an electronics-free town and a farm field trip; 224 pages, black cover.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper is book 20 of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, published October 21, 2025 by Amulet Books/Abrams. It follows Greg Heffley's chaotic self-planned birthday party and a rare MicroCreatures trading card, released in 26 countries.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, book 2 of Jeff Kinney's series, published February 1, 2008 by Abrams/Amulet: Greg Heffley is blackmailed by brother Rodrick over a summer secret, with the band Löded Diper; adapted into 2011 live-action and 2022 Disney+ animated films.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is the ninth book (2014) in Jeff Kinney's series, following Greg Heffley's disastrous family road trip; a 2017 live-action film adaptation with a fully recast cast followed.
Dibaratrir Kabya
Dibaratrir Kabya (দিবারাত্রির কাব্য) is a Bengali novel by Manik Bandopadhyay, written in 1929 at age 21 and published in 1935, an early study of love and the human mind.
Dick and Jane
Dick and Jane are the characters of Scott, Foresman's American basal reading primers, first published in the 1930 Elson-Gray Basic Readers. Created by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp, they taught millions via the look-say whole-word method until retirement in 1965.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy: American newspaper comic strip about a plainclothes police detective, created by Chester Gould, debuting October 4, 1931 in the Detroit Mirror; known for grotesque villains, forensic detective work, and adaptations in radio, film serials, and the 1990 Warren Beatty movie.
Dictator novel
The dictator novel, also called the dictatorship novel, is a subgenre of Latin American historical fiction portraying dictators or dictatorship, beginning with Amalia in 1851 and peaking in the 1970s.
Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB, Oxford DNB), the British national biographical reference: first edition 1885–1900 in 63 volumes edited by Leslie Stephen; 2004 Oxford edition with 64,533 biographies.
Dictionary of the Khazars
The Dictionary of the Khazars, Hazarski rečnik, is a 1984 novel by the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, written as a dictionary of the Khazar people.
Dido
Dido (Elissa), legendary Phoenician queen of Tyre who founded Carthage c. 813 BCE; Virgil's Aeneid invented her love affair with Aeneas, her curse, and her suicide, inspiring Ovid, Marlowe, and Dido's problem in mathematics.
Die Frühlingsfeier
Die Frühlingsfeier is a hymnic ode by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on spring and the divine, written in 1759 and published in a revised version in 1771.
Die Groot Verseboek
Die Groot Verseboek is a representative anthology of Afrikaans poetry, first compiled by poet D.J. Opperman and published in Cape Town in 1951, later revised by André P. Brink.
Die Hoë Land
Die Hoë Land is a work by the South African Afrikaans writer Pieter W. Grobbelaar (1930–2013), listed among his publications of folk tales and children's books.
Die Lian Hua: Standing by the High Tower
Die Lian Hua: Standing by the High Tower is a ci lyric by the Song dynasty poet Liu Yong, famous for its closing couplet about willing devotion.
Die Lorelei
Die Lorelei is an 1824 poem by Heinrich Heine, one of the most widely set poems in German music, describing a siren on the Rhine luring boatmen to destruction.
Die Niemandsrose
Die Niemandsrose, or The No-One's Rose, is a 1963 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan, his fifth volume, containing 53 poems and dedicated to Osip Mandelstam.
Die Stadt
Die Stadt is a fifteen-line poem by Theodor Storm, written around 1852 and printed in his collection Gedichte, depicting a gray, fog-bound coastal town identified with his native Husum.
Die Vlakte
"Die Vlakte" ("The plain") is a 1906 Afrikaans poem by Jan F.E. Celliers that, with Marais' "Winternag", stands at the beginning of the conscious literary tradition in Afrikaans.
Die Vrou en ander Verse
Die Vrou en ander Verse (The Woman and Other Verses) is a 1945 poetry collection by the South African poet Elisabeth Eybers, her third Afrikaans collection.
Die wunderbaren Jahre
Die wunderbaren Jahre is a 1976 prose collection by Reiner Kunze depicting everyday repression of young people in East Germany; banned there, it topped the West German bestseller list.
Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet
Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet (The iron cow must sweat) is the 1964 debut poetry collection of South African writer and painter Breyten Breytenbach, published by Perskor.
Die, My Love
Die, My Love (Matate, amor, 2012) is Ariana Harwicz's debut novel about an unnamed woman in rural France undone by marriage and motherhood; longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and adapted into Lynne Ramsay's 2025 Cannes film starring Jennifer Lawrence.
Điêu tàn
Điêu tàn is the 1937 debut poetry collection of Vietnamese poet Chế Lan Viên, published at age 17 and inspired by the ruins of the old Champa kingdom.
Different Seasons
Different Seasons (1982, Viking Press) is Stephen King's four-novella collection pairing Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body, and The Breathing Method with the seasons; it inspired Stand By Me and the seven-time Oscar-nominated Shawshank film.
Dig It (manga)
Dig It (ディグイット) is a seinen volleyball manga by Yoshidamaru, serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon since 2025. It follows Gaku Shishitani, son of a former national-team ace, who becomes a libero to surpass his father and the prodigy Noboru; four volumes, 450,000 copies, no anime.
Digging
"Digging" is a 1966 poem by Seamus Heaney and the opening poem of his debut collection Death of a Naturalist, where the speaker vows to dig with his pen.
Digital Fortress
Digital Fortress (1998) is Dan Brown's debut techno-thriller, set at the NSA, where cryptographer Susan Fletcher confronts an unbreakable code by Ensei Tankado that is actually a worm; noted for cryptography inaccuracies.
Digital humanities
Digital humanities (DH), formerly humanities computing, applies computational methods to human culture, from Busa's 1946 Index Thomisticus to machine learning and generative AI, while debating its own critical and disciplinary identity.
Digory Kirke
Digory Kirke is the C. S. Lewis Narnia character, boy of The Magician's Nephew (1955) who wakes Jadis in Charn and witnesses Narnia's creation, and the Professor (1888–1949) who hosts the Pevensies.