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Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern is Anne McCaffrey's science fiction series, begun with "Weyr Search" (1967) and Dragonflight (1968), set on the colonized planet Pern where telepathic, genetically engineered dragons and their riders fight Thread spores falling from the Red Star.
Drakht-i Asurig
Drakht-i Asurig (درخت آسوریگ, also Draxt ī Āsūrīg) is a Middle Persian debate poem, the oldest Persian munāzara, in which a date palm and a goat contend for precedence.
Dramatical Murder (ドラマティカル マーダー)
DRAMAtical Murder (ドラマティカル マーダー, DMMd) is a 2012 cyberpunk boys' love visual novel by Nitro+CHiRAL, starring Aoba with five routes (Mink, Clear, Koujaku, Noiz, Ren), released in English by JAST on Steam in 2021.
Draupadi
Draupadi (द्रौपदी), also Krishnaa and Yajnaseni, is the chief heroine of the Mahabharata: Drupada's daughter, wife of the five Pandavas, disrobed in the dice hall, and a south Indian folk goddess.
Dread Pirate Roberts
Dread Pirate Roberts: fictional pirate identity in William Goldman's The Princess Bride (1973 novel, 1987 film), a name passed from captain to captain, held by Westley; later the Silk Road darknet administrator pseudonym of Ross Ulbricht.
Dream Count
Dream Count is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fourth novel, published March 4, 2025, her first since Americanah (2013). It follows four women, Chiamaka, Zikora, Omelogor, and Kadiatou, between Nigeria and Washington, D.C. during the pandemic; Kadiatou's story draws on the 2011 Diallo case.
Dream Memories of Tao'an
Tao'an Mengyi (陶庵梦忆) is a collection of 123 short essays by late Ming essayist Zhang Dai, written after the Ming's fall in 1644, recording Jiangnan daily life, opera, tea culture, and folk customs.
Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦)
Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng 紅樓夢, Story of the Stone), mid-18th-century Chinese novel attributed to Cao Xueqin; first 80 chapters his, last 40 by Gao E and Cheng Weiyuan's 1791 edition; center of redology scholarship.
Dream of the Red Chamber Award
The Dream of the Red Chamber Award is a biennial prize from Hong Kong Baptist University for Chinese-language novels, founded in 2005 with a HK$300,000 first prize.
Dream Sky
Dream Sky (꿈하늘) is a dream-journey novel written in 1916 by the Korean historian and independence activist Shin Chae-ho, in which the protagonist Han-nom travels through Korean history and awakens to the will for national independence.
Dream Story
Dream Story (Traumnovelle) is Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella about the Viennese couple Fridolin and Albertine, whose confessed desires and dreams unsettle their marriage; serialized in Die Dame, published by S. Fischer, and adapted by Kubrick as Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
Dreaming of Tianmu Mountain: Farewell Song
Dreaming of Tianmu Mountain: Farewell Song (Mengyou Tianmu yin liubie) is a poem by Li Bai about a dream journey to Mount Tianmu, ending in defiance of the powerful.
Dreamland (manfra)
Dreamland is a French shonen manfra by Reno Lemaire, published by Pika Édition since 25 January 2006, about Terrence Meyer, a Montpellier student who becomes a 'voyageur' in the world of dreams; 24 volumes, 800,000 copies, anime adaptation 2026.
Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father, also known as Dreams of My Father, is a 1995 memoir by Barack Obama about his upbringing and search for racial identity.
Driftglass
Driftglass (1971) is Samuel R. Delany's first short story collection, ten tales including the Nebula winner "Aye, and Gomorrah" and Hugo/Nebula winner "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones"; reissued by Penguin Classics in 2021.
Drinking Alone by Moonlight
"Drinking Alone by Moonlight" (月下獨酌) is a famous Tang dynasty poem by Li Bai, who invites the moon and his shadow to drink with him.
Drinking at the Great Wall Cave
Drinking at the Great Wall Cave (Yin ma changcheng ku xing, 饮马长城窟行) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in which a wife dreams of her absent husband and receives his letter.
Drinking on the Lake: First Sunshine Then Rain
Drinking on the Lake: First Sunshine Then Rain (飲湖上初晴後雨) is a pair of 1073 quatrains by Song poet Su Shi describing West Lake, compared to the beauty Xi Shi.
Drinking Wine (Twenty Poems)
Drinking Wine (飲酒二十首) is a cycle of twenty poems by the Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming, written in retirement and read as reflections on reclusion despite its title.
Drizzt Do'Urden
Drizzt Do'Urden, also called Drizzt Daermon N'a'shezbaernon, is R.A. Salvatore's drow ranger hero of the Forgotten Realms, first appearing in The Crystal Shard (1988); 39 novels through Lolth's Warrior (2023), appearances in Baldur's Gate and Magic: The Gathering.
Drona
Drona (द्रोण, Droṇa), also Dronacharya, is the Brahmin martial guru of the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata: vessel-born son of Bharadvaja, second Kaurava commander after Bhishma, slain in meditation after Yudhishthira's half-truth about Ashwatthama.
Drum magazine fiction
Drum magazine fiction is the short stories, serialized novels, and fiction-inflected journalism published in South Africa's Drum magazine from 1951, shaped by Sophiatown life and American hard-boiled style.
Drums of Autumn
Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon's 1996 fourth Outlander novel, follows Jamie and Claire Fraser in 1767 North Carolina while daughter Brianna time-travels from 1969 to find them; adapted as Outlander season 4.
Drupada
Drupada (द्रुपद), also Yajnasena, is the king of Panchala in the Mahabharata, father of Draupadi, Dhrishtadyumna, and Sikhandi, Drona's estranged friend and enemy, killed by Drona in the war.
Dry Valley
Dry Valley (Russian: Sukhodol), also known as Drydale, is a novella by Ivan Bunin, first published in 1912, chronicles the degradation of the Khrushchev gentry family.
Drylands
Drylands: A Book for the World's Last Reader is a 1999 novel by Thea Astley, set in a drought-stricken Queensland town, her final novel and fourth Miles Franklin Award winner.
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve, On the Motion and Immobility of Douve, is a 1953 poetry collection, the first book by the French poet Yves Bonnefoy.
Duanchang Ji
Duanchang Ji (断肠集), or Collection of Broken Guts, is a Song dynasty poetry collection by woman poet Zhu Shuzhen, compiled after her death in 1182.
Dubliners
Dubliners is James Joyce's 1914 collection of fifteen short stories about Dublin life, written 1904–1907, known for paralysis, epiphanies, 'scrupulous meanness' style, and a ten-year censorship-plagued path to publication.
Dubrovsky
Dubrovsky (Дубровский) is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and 1833, about a young nobleman who becomes a robber after a corrupt court takes his father's estate.