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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 Perfect Day for Bananafish
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1948

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | 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 Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

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

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

Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Philaster
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

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

Nonfiction | Book | 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

Fiction | Novel | 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