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311 completed study guides
| Work | Author | Form | Published | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuneus prophetarum | Pjeter Bogdani | Bilingual theological, philosophical, and scientific prose treatise | 1685 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James | Novella | First published in 1878 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Dálkový výslech | Václav Havel | Book-length interview, intellectual autobiography, and political reflection | 1986; English translation 1990 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dakilang asal | Aurelio Tolentino | Sequence of ten didactic poems on conduct | 1907 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dancing Arabs | Sayed Kashua | Coming-of-age novel and social satire | 2002; English translation 2004 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dancing at the Lughnasa | Brian Friel | Memory play | First performed and published in 1990 | AP FRQ 3 |
| DARK GLASSES | Khamsing Srinawk | Short story | 1969; English collection 1973 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dark Matter | Juli Zeh | Philosophical crime novel | 2007; English translation 2010 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | Bildungsroman / autobiographical first-person novel | Serialized May 1849–November 1850; book edition 1850 | AP FRQ 3 |
| De aanslag | Harry Mulisch | Literary work | 1982 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| De måske egnede | Peter Høeg | Literary work | 1994 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| De ontdekking van de hemel | Harry Mulisch | Literary work | 1993 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dead at Daybreak | Deon Meyer | Literary work | 2000 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dear Shameless Death | Latife Teki̇n | Literary work | 2001 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Death and the Dervish | Meša Selimović | Literary work | 1996 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Death Be Not Proud | John Donne | Holy sonnet | 1633 (posthumous) | Additional classroom reference |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | Play | 1949 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Delta Wedding | Eudora Welty | Novel | 1946 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Denier du Reve | Marguerite Yourcenar | Literary work | 1934 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Der Besuch der alten Dame | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Literary work | 1956 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Der Richter und sein Henker | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Novel | 1952 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Desire Under the Elms | Eugene O'Neill | Tragedy | 1924 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Devil’s Valley | André Brink | Novel | 1998 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Diary of a Blood Donor | Mati Unt | Novel | 1990; English translation 2008 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Diary of a Country Prosecutor | Tawfiq al-Hakim | Novel | 1937 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Die Klavierspielerin | Elfriede Jelinek | Novel | 1983 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Die Liebhaberinnen | Elfriede Jelinek | Novel | 1975 | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler | Novel | 1982 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | Science-fiction novel | 1968 | IB PRL recommended author |
| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | Dylan Thomas | Villanelle | 1951 | Additional classroom reference |
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | Tragic drama | 1604 A-text; 1616 B-text | AP FRQ 3 |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | Novel with concluding poems | 1957 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes | Two-part novel | 1605 and 1615 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Dover Beach | Matthew Arnold | Lyric poem | 1867 | Additional classroom reference |
| Drummer Hodge | Thomas Hardy | Poem | 1899 | Additional classroom reference |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | Wilfred Owen | Poem | 1920 (posthumous) | Additional classroom reference |
| Electra | Sophocles | Greek tragedy | Fifth century BCE | IB PRL recommended authorEditorial IB-author selection |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray | Elegy | 1751 | Additional classroom reference |
| Emma | Jane Austen | Novel | 1815 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer | Play | 1973 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | Novella | 1911 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Eveline | James Joyce | Short story | 1904 | Additional classroom reference |
| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer | Novel | 2005 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | Novel | 1953 | |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | Novel | 1862 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two-part dramatic poem | 1808; 1832 | AP FRQ 3Additional classroom reference |
| Federigo’s Falcon | Giovanni Boccaccio | Framed novella | Fourteenth century | Additional classroom reference |
| Fences | August Wilson | Two-act play | 1986 | AP FRQ 3 |
| Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | Novel | 1970 | AP FRQ 3 |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | Novel | 1940 | AP FRQ 3 |

