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A Painful Case
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1914

A Parchment of Leaves
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Passion in the Desert
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1830

A Patch of Blue
Elizabeth Kata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

A Pearl in the Storm
Tori Murden McClure

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

A Pickpocket's Tale
Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Pigeon and a Boy
Meir Shalev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Pigeon's Tale
S.A. Mahan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

A Place to Belong
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

A Pride of Poppies
Julie Bozza, et al.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Primate's Memoir
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

A Problem from Hell
Samantha Power

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Packinghouse Daughter
Cheri Register

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Palimpsest
Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Pandora's Lab
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Pantagruel
François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Pantomime
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

Paper Princess
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paradise Road
Kirk Nesset

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Parrot In The Oven
Victor Martinez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Passing Strange
Martha A. Sandweiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Pastoralia
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Pathologies of Power
Paul Farmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Patriot Games
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Paula
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Flora Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Pavilion of Women
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Peace Breaks Out
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Peaches
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Pearl Buck in China
Hilary Spurling

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Pearl Harbor: Warning And Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Pearl of China
Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Peeps
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Pendragon: Arthur And His Britain
Joseph P. Clancy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1972

Penny from Heaven
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Peony In Love
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Perdido Street Station
China Mieville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Perfect Chemistry
Simone Elkeles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Pericles
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Personal History
Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Petals on the Wind
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Philaster
John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Philip Larkin
Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings
Phillis Wheatley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1773

Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Richard Rorty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Phineas Gage
John Fleischman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Phormio
Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 161

Picture Bride
Cathy Song

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1983

Picture Me Gone
Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Picturing Will
Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Piece of My Heart
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1962

Pig Girl
Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Pigs In Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Pirate Hunters
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Plain, Honest Men
Richard Beeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Playing for Keeps
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Playing for the Devil's Fire
Phillippe Diederich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Playing for Time
Fania Fenelon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Play Their Hearts Out
George Dohrmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Pleasantville
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Please Ignore Vera Dietz
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Please Kill Me
Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Point Blank
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Point Omega
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Poison
Bridget Zinn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Poland
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Polar Star
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Political Liberalism
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Politics and the English Language
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Poor Economics
Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1732

Pope Joan
Donna Woolfolk Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
Maya Van Wagenen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Portrait of a Lady: A Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Diane A.S. Stuckart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Positive
Paige Rawl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Possession
A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Postcards from No Man's Land
Aidan Chambers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Pretend It's Love
Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Primo Levi: A Life
Ian Thomson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Princess in Love
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1910

Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Private Lives
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1783

Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1820

Proof of Heaven
Mary Curran Hackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Prophecy Of The Sisters
Michelle Zink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Prospero's Daughter
Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Prudence
David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Purgatory
Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Purity in Death
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Pushing The Limits
Katie McGarry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy
Bil Wright

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Painted Girls
Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Painter
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Painter from Shanghai
Jennifer Cody Epstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Paladin Prophecy
Mark Frost

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Passion of Artemisia
Susan Vreeland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Path
Michael Puett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Patriot Threat
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Peach Keeper
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The People's Platform
Astra Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Peppermint Pig
Nina Bawden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Perfume Collector
Kathleen Tessaro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Perilous Road
William O. Steele

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Photographer
Emmanuel Guibert, Frédéric Lemercier, Didier Lefèvre

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Physicists
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Places in Between
Rory Stewart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Playmaker
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Playroom
John Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Play that Changed My Life
Ben Hodges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Pocket Wife
Susan Crawford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Poe Shadow
Matthew Pearl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Poisoner
Stephen Bates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Poison Tree
Erin Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Poison Tree
Alan Prendergast

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ponder Heart
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1954

The Porcupine of Truth
Bill Konigsberg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Portable Beat Reader
Ann Charters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Possessed
Elif Batuman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Postmistress
Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Postmodern Condition
Jean-François Lyotard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Power of Moments
Chip Heath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Power of Positive Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

The Power of Six
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Power of Sympathy
William Hill Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1789

The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir
Gaby Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2012

The Prelude
William Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1799

The President is Missing
Bill Clinton, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Prince of Fenway Park
Julianna Baggott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Prince of Frogtown
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Prisoner of Chillon
James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

The Privilege of Youth
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Prize
Jill Bialosky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Probability Of Miracles
Wendy Wunder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Problem of Social Cost
R. H. Coase

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1960

The Problem with Forever
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Promise
Ann Weisgarber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Promise of American Life
Herbert Croly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1909

The Promise of a Pencil
Adam Braun

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Prussian Officer
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1914

The Public and Its Problems
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Pugilist at Rest: Stories
Thom Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Pursuit of Happiness
Douglas Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Pushcart War
Jean Merrill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Eric Berlin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007