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Pandemic
A.G. Riddle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Pandemonium
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Pandora's Lab
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Panic
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Panic (Panic, #1)
Lauren Oliver, 蘿倫·奧立佛

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Pantagruel
François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Pantomime
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (Paola Santiago, #1)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Paper and Fire (The Great Library, #2)
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paperboy
Vince Vawter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Paper Girls, Volume 1
Matt Wilson, Brian K. Vaughan, Jared K. Fletcher, Cliff Chiang

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Paper Girls, Volume 2
Brian K. Vaughan, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Cliff Chiang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paper Girls, Volume 4
Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher, Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Paper Princess
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Paper Towns
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Paperweight
Meg Haston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Paper Wishes
Lois Sepahban

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Papillon
Henri Charrière

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Paradais
Fernanda Melchor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Parade
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2024

Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Paradise
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

Paradise of the Blind
Duong Thu Huong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Paradise Regained
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1671

Paradise Road
Kirk Nesset

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Paradise Rot
Jenny Hval

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Paradise Rot (The Island Trilogy,#1)
Larry Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Paradiso
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1320

Paradox Bound
Peter Clines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Parallel Journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1995

Parallel Myths
J. F. Bierlein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Paranormalcy
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards
Bong Joon-ho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
Mira Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Gad Saad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Parched
Melanie Crowder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Paris
Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Paris by the Book
Liam Callanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Graham Robb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Sebastian Smee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Paris in the Present Tense
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Paris: The Memoir
Paris Hilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Park Avenue Summer
Renée Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Parmenides
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 341

Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
Christopher Morley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

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

Partials
Dan Wells

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Taylor Branch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1929

Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Party Going
Henry Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Party of Two
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Party Princess
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Parvana's Journey
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Parzival
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1215

Pashmina
Nidhi Chanani

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Passage to Dawn
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Passenger
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Passenger to Frankfurt
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Passing
Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Passing Strange
Ellen Klages

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Passion
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Password to Larkspur Lane (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #10)
Carolyn Keene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1933

Past Master
R.A. Lafferty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Pastoralia
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Past Tense
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

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

Paterson
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1946

Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Pathfinder
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Path of Destruction
Drew Karpyshyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Path of the Pale Horse
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1983

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Jonathan Kennedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Pathologies of Power
Paul Farmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Paths to Power: Living in the Spirit's Fullness
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

Patience & Sarah
Isabel Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics
Jonathan Maberry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Patina
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Pat of Silver Bush (Pat of Silver Bush, #1)
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1933

Patriarcha and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1680

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Patriot
Alexei Navalny

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Patriot Games
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019