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The Party Crasher
Sophie Kinsella

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Party Upstairs
Lee Conell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Passage
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
Robert A. Caro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Passenger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Passengers
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Passion
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Passion Dream Book
Whitney Otto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

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 Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
Richard Tarnas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande
Angela Garcia

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Pastures of Heaven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Oz, #7)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1913

The Path
Michael Puett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Path of Daggers
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
Robert A. Caro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

The Patient
Michael Palmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Patient's Secret
Loreth Anne White

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Patriarch (Bruno, Chief of Police, #8)
Martin Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Patriots
Sana Krasikov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Patriot Threat
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Peacock and the Sparrow
I. S. Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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 Library
Veronica G. Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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 Find
Tia Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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