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• DA EMPOLI, Giuliano: The Wizard of the Kremlin (B)
• DAAS, Fatima: The Last One (B)
• DABASHI, Hamid: The Shahnameh (B)
• DAENINCKX, Didier:
  • Murder in Memoriam (B)
  • Nazis in the Metro (B)
  • A Very Profitable War (B)
• DAHL, Arne: Misterioso (B-)
• DAHL, Niels Fredrik: På vei til en venn (B+)
• DAHL, Robert A.: How Democratic Is the American Constitution ? (A-)
• DAI Sijie:
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (B+)
  • Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (B)
• al-DAIF, Rashid:
  • Dear Mr Kawabata (B)
  • Learning English (B)
  • Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep ? (B)
• DAITCH, Susan: The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir (B)
• DALISAY, Jose:
  • Killing Time in a Warm Place (B+)
  • Soledad's Sister (B+)
• DALOS György:
  • The Circumcision (B)
  • The Guest from the Future (B)
• DALRYMPLE, William: White Mughals (B+)
• DAN Oniroku: Season of Infidelity (B-)
• DAṆḌIN: What Ten Young Men Did (B)
• DANESHVAR, Simin:
  • Island of Bewilderment (B)
  • A Persian Requiem (B)
• DANGAREMBGA, Tsitsi: Nervous Conditions (B+)
• DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (B)
• DANTEC, Maurice G.:
  • [Babylon Babies (also: Babylon A.D.)]
  • [Cosmos Incorporated]
• DANTO, Arthur C.: The Madonna of the Future (B)
• DANTZIG, Charles: Why Read ? (B+)
• DAOUD, Kamel: The Meursault Investigation (B+)
• DARD, Frédéric:
  • Bird in a Cage (B+)
  • Crush (B+)
  • The Executioner Weeps (B+)
  • The Gravediggers' Bread (B+)
  • The King of Fools (B)
  • The Wicked Go To Hell (B)
  • Writing as San-Antonio:
    • Knights of Arabia (B)
    • Thugs and Bottles (B)
    • Tough Justice (B)
• DARRIEUSSECQ, Marie:
  • My Phantom Husband (B-)
  • Pig Tales (B-)
  • Undercurrents (UK title: Breathing under Water) (B-)
  • White (B+)
• DART, Gregory: Unrequited Love (B+)
• DARWIN, Charles:
  • The Life of Erasmus Darwin (B)
  • The Origin of Species (A-)
• DAVIS, Lydia:
  • Can't and Won't (B+)
  • Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red (B)
• DAVYS, Tim: Amberville (B-)
• DAWKINS, Richard:
  • The God Delusion (B+)
  • [The Greatest Show on Earth]
  • Unweaving the Rainbow (A-)
• DAZAI Osamu: A Shameful Life (B+)
• DE AMICIS, Edmondo: Love and Gymnastics (A-)
• DE ANGELIS, Augusto:
  • Death in a Bookstore (B-)
  • The Hotel of the Three Roses (B)
  • The Murdered Banker (B+)
  • The Mystery of the Three Orchids (B-)
• DE BOTTON, Alain:
  • See the complete review's Alain de Botton page
  • The Art of Travel (B+)
  • The Consolations of Philosophy (B-)
  • How Proust can change your Life (A-)
  • Kiss & Tell (B)
  • On Love (B)
  • The Romantic Movement (B-)
  • Status Anxiety (B)
• DEBRAY, Régis: A Modest Proposal (B)
• DE CÉSPEDES, Alba:
  • Forbidden Notebook (B+)
  • Her Side of the Story (B)
• DECK, Julia: Viviane (B)
• DEEMTER, Kees van: Not Exactly (B)
• DE GIOVANNI, Maurizio: The Crocodile (B)
• DEHOUCK, Bram: Sleepless Summer (B+)
• DEIGHTON, Len: SS-GB (B)
• DE KAT, Otto: The Figure in the Distance (B)
• DEKKERS, Midas: The Way of all Flesh (B+)
• DELABROY-ALLARD, Pauline: They Say Sarah (B) (UK title: All About Sarah)
• DELACORTA: Nana (B+)
• DELACOURT, Grégoire: The List of My Desires (US title: My Wish List) (B-)
• DE LA MOTTE, Anders:
  • Buzz (B-)
  • Game (B+)
• DELAY, Florence: S. (B)
• DELEDDA, Grazia:
  • The Church of Solitude (B)
  • La Madre (B+)
• DELIBES, Miguel:
  • See the complete review's Miguel Delibes page
  • The Hedge (A-)
  • The Heretic (A-)
  • The Wars of our Ancestors (B+)
• DELILLO, Don:
  • [Falling Man]
  • [Point Omega]
• DELISLE, Guy: Burma Chronicles (B)
• DELIUS, Friedrich Christian: Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman (B+)
• DE LUCA, Erri: The Day before Happiness (B)
• DE MAISTRE, Xavier:
  • Voyage around my Room (A-)
  • Nocturnal Expedition around my Room (B+)
  • The Leper of the City of Aosta (B)
• DE MARIA, Giorgio: The Twenty Days of Turin (B)
• DENING, Greg:
  • Mr. Bligh's Bad Language (A+)
  • Performances (B+)
• DENNETT, Daniel C.: Breaking the Spell (B+)
• DENON, Vivant: No Tomorrow (B+)
• DENT, Lester: Honey in his Mouth (B)
• DÉON, Michel:
  • The Foundling Boy (B+)
  • The Great and the Good (B+)
• DePAULI, Werner: Gödel (B+) (with John L. Casti)
• DE QUINCEY, Thomas: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (B+)
• DERESCH, Ljubko:
  • Культ (B)
  • Поклоніння ящірці (B)
• DERVIŞ, Suat: In the Shadow of the Yali (A-)
• DE SANTIS, Pablo:
  • Filosofía y letras (B)
  • La sexta lámpara (B)
  • The Paris Enigma (B)
  • La traducción (B)
  • Voltaire's Calligrapher (B)
• DE SILVA, Diego: I hadn't understood (B)
• DESJARDINS, Martine: Maleficium (B)
• DESPENTES, Virginie:
  • Apocalypse Baby (B)
  • King Kong Theory (A-)
  • Pretty Things (B)
  • Vernon Subutex 1 (B+)
• DEUTSCH, Jeff: In Praise of Good Bookstores (B)
• DEVI, Mahasweta: Bait (B)
• DEVILLE, Patrick: S. (B)
• DEVLIN, Keith: Mathematics: The New Golden Age (B)
• DE VRIES, Joost: The Republic (B)
• DE WINTER, Leon:
  • Geronimo (C)
  • God's Gym (B)
  • Hoffman's Hunger (A-)
  • Kaplan (A-)
  • Het recht op terugkeer (B-)
  • De ruimte van Sokolov (B)
  • SuperTex (B+)
  • VSV (B)
• DEWITT, Helen:
  • The English Understand Wool (A-)
  • The Last Samurai (A)
• DE WITTE, Ludo: The Assassination of Lumumba (-)
• DHUMKETU: The Shehnai Virtuoso (B+)
• DI BENEDETTO, Antonio:
  • The Silentiary (A-)
  • Zama (A-)
• DI FULVIO, Luca: The Mannequin Man (B)
• DI GRADO, Viola: Hollow Heart (B)
• DIB, Mohammed: L.A. Trip (B)
• DICK, Kay: They (A-)
• DICKER, Joël:
  • The Enigma of Room 622 (B-)
  • The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (B)
• DIDEROT, Denis:
  • Jacques the Fatalist (A-)
  • Rameau's Nephew (B)
• DIFFRIENT, David Scott (ed.): Screwball Television (B) (with David Lavery)
• DIMOCK, Peter: A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (B+)
• DIMOSKI, Sasho: Alma Mahler (B)
• DIOME, Fatou: The Belly of the Atlantic (B+)
• DIOP, Boubacar Boris: The Knight and His Shadow (B+)
• DIOP, David:
  • At Night All Blood Is Black (B)
  • Beyond the Door of No Return (B+)
• DIRAR, Solomon: The Snare, in Three Eritrean Plays (B)
• DISCH, Thomas: The Stuff our Dreams are made of (B-)
• DITLEVSEN, Tove:
  • The Copenhagen Trilogy:
    1. Childhood (A-)
    2. Youth (B+)
    3. Dependency (B+)
• DIYĀB, Ḥannā: The Book of Travels (B+)
• DJAOUT, Tahar: The Last Summer of Reason (B+)
• DJAVADI, Négar: Disoriental (B)
• DJIAN, Philippe:
  • Consequences (B)
  • Elle (B)
  • Unforgivable (C)
• DÖBLIN, Alfred: Bürger und Soldaten 1918 (B+)
• DOŁĘGA-MOSTOWICZ, Tadeusz: The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (B+)
• DOMBROVSKY, Yury:
  • The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (A-)
  • The Keeper of Antiquities (A-)
• DOMÍNGUEZ, Carlos María: The House of Paper (UK: The Paper House) (B+)
• DOMNARSKI, William: Richard Posner (B)
• DONGALA, Emmanuel:
  • Johnny Mad Dog (B+)
  • Little Boys Come from the Stars (B+)
• DONIGER, Wendy: Redeeming the Kamasutra (B+)
• DONOGHUE, Denis: Words Alone (B+)
• DONOSO, José: The Garden Next Door (B+)
• DORNER, Françoise: The Woman in the Row Behind (B)
• DOROSHEVICH, Vlas: What the Emperor Cannot Do (A-)
• DOUAIHY, Jabbour: Printed in Beirut (B)
• DOUEIHI, Milad: Digital Cultures (B)
• DOWLATABADI, Mahmud:
  • The Colonel (A-)
  • Kelidar - I (A-)
  • Kelidar - II (B+)
  • Safar (B+)
  • Thirst (B+)
• DOXIADIS, Apostolos: Logicomix (B-) (with Christos H. Papadimitriou)
• DREYER, Tom: Equatoria (B)
• DRNDIĆ, Daša:
  • Belladonna (A-)
  • Doppelgänger (A-)
  • EEG (B+)
• DRUMMOND, Bill:
  • 17 (B+)
  • 45 (B+)
  • 2023 (with Jimmy Cauty) (B)
  • Annual Report (A-)
  • The Manual (with Jimmy Cauty) (B+)
  • See also: K Foundation burn a Million Quid (Chris Brook, ed.) (A)
• DRVENKAR, Zoran: Sorry (C)
• DRY, Sarah: The Newton Papers (B)
• DU SAUTOY, Marcus: The Creativity Code (B)
• DUBOIS, Jean-Paul: Vie Française (UK title: A French Life) (B)
• DUFOSSÉ, Christophe: School's Out (B)
• DUGAIN, Marc: The Avenue of the Giants (B)
• DUGUID, Paul: The Social Life of Information (with John Seely Brown) (A-)
• DUMAS, Alexandre: The Thousand and One Ghosts (B)
• DUMONTAIS, Sinclair: The Parachute (B-)
• DUNBAR, Robin: How Many Friends does One Person Need ? (B)
• DUNCAN, Dennis: Index, A History of the (B+)
• DUNCAN, Lois:
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer (B-)
  • Killing Mr. Griffin (B+)
• DUNEVICH, Roni: Ring of Lies (B-)
• DUNG Kai-Cheung: Atlas (B)
• DUNLOP, Carol: Autonauts of the Cosmoroute (A-) (with Julio Cortázar)
• DUNN, Mark: Ella Minnow Pea (A)
• DƯƠNG Thu Hương: Paradise of the Blind (A-)
• DURAS, Marguerite: Abahn Sabana David (B)
• DURCAN, Paul:
  • Christmas Day (B+)
  • Greetings to our Friends in Brazil (A-)
  • A Snail in my Prime (A-)
• DURIAN Sukegawa: Sweet Bean Paste (B)
• DURLACHER, Jessica: Schrijvers ! (B-)
• DUROZOI, Gérard: History of the Surrealist Movement (A-)
• DÜRRENMATT, Friedrich: The Physicists (A-)
• DUSAPIN, Elisa Shua:
  • The Pachinko Parlor (B+)
  • Vladivostok Circus (B)
  • Winter in Sokcho (B)
• DUTEURTRE, Benoît:
  • Customer Service (C+)
  • The Little Girl and the Cigarette (B-)
• DUTOURD, Jean:
  • A Dog's Head (A-)
  • Five A.M. (B)
  • The Horrors of Love (A-)
• DUVE, Karen: The Prepper Room (B)
• DUVERT, Tony:
  • District (B)
  • Odd Jobs (A-)
• DWORKIN, Ronald: Is Democracy Possible Here ? (B)
• DYER, Geoff:
  • See the complete review's Geoff Dyer page
  • Anglo-English Attitudes (B)
  • But Beautiful (A)
  • The Colour of Memory (B+)
  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (B+)
  • Out of Sheer Rage (A-)
  • Paris Trance (A-)
  • The Search (B)
  • Ways of Telling (B)
  • Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It (B+)
  • Zona (B+)
• DYSON, Freeman:
  • Imagined Worlds (B+)
  • Origins of Life (--)
  • The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet (B)

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