Book Brief Library

The Patron Saint of Liars

Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Paul Street Boys

Ferenc Molnár, Masimiliano Longo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1906

The Pawnbroker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Paying Guests

Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Peach Keeper

Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Peach Stone: Stories from Four Decades

Paul Horgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1947

The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

The Pearl Sister (The Seven Sisters #4)

Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Pearl Thief

Elizabeth Wein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Peasants of Languedoc

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

The Pecan Children

Quinn Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street

Lindsay Currie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Denis Thériault

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

The Pelican Brief

John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Peloponnesian War

Donald Kagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

Jeanne Birdsall

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Penis Book: A Doctor's Complete Guide to the Penis--From Size to Function and Everything in Between

Aaron Spitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Pentagon Papers

Neil Sheehan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The People in the Trees

Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The People of Paper

Salvador Plascencia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The People of Sparks

Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The People of the Abyss

Jack London

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1903

The People of the Wind

Poul Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The People's Platform

Astra Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The People vs. Alex Cross

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The People We Keep

Allison Larkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Peppermint Pig

Nina Bawden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Perfect Child

Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Perfect Christmas

Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Perfect Couple

Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Perfect Escape

Suzanne Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Perfect First

Maya Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Perfect Game

J. Sterling

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Perfect Girl

Gilly Macmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Perfect Girlfriend

Karen Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Perfect Hope

Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

Elizabeth Letts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Perfect Husband

Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Perfect Marriage

Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Perfect Mother

Aimee Molloy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Perfect Murder (Inspector Ghote, #1)

H.R.F. Keating

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Perfect Nanny

Leïla Slimani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Perfect Other

Kyleigh Leddy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

Steffanie Strathdee, Thomas Patterson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Perfect Score

Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Perfect Shot

Elaine Marie Alphin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Perfect Son

Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Perfect Stranger

Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on The Niblung's Ring

George Bernard Shaw

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1931

The Perfect Wife

J.P. Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida

Clarissa Goenawan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Perfume Collector

Kathleen Tessaro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Perfumist of Paris

Alka Joshi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Perilous Gard

Elizabeth Marie Pope

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

The Perilous Road

William O. Steele

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1975

The Peripheral

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)

Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Persian Expedition

Xenophon, Rex Warner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 401

The Persian Pickle Club

Sandra Dallas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Persians

Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Personal Librarian

Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Dolly Chugh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

Anand Giridharadas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

The Phenomenon of Man

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

W.E.B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1899

The Philosopher's Pupil

Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9)

Marcus Garvey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1975

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

H.L. Mencken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1908

The Philosophy of History

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1831

The Phoenix and the Carpet (The Psammead Trilogy, #2)

E. Nesbit

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1904

The Phoenix and the Turtle

William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1601

The Phoenix Crown: A Novel

Kate Quinn, Janie Chang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Photographer

Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert, Frédéric Lemercier

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

The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)

Noah Gordon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

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 Pianist

Władysław Szpilman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

The Piano Lesson

August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

Thad Carhart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

The Piano Teacher

Janice Y.K. Lee, Elfriede Jelinek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Piano Tuner

Daniel Mason

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Pickup

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

The Pigeon

Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987