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Peril at End House
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Peril at End House (BBC Radio 4 adaptation)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Permanent Midnight
Jerry Stahl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Permanent Record
Mary H.K. Choi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Permanent Record: How One Man Exposed the Truth about Government Spying and Digital Security
Edward Snowden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Permutation City
Greg Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Perpetual Peace and Other Essays
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1795

Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

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

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Marjane Satrapi, Transl. Anjali Singh

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Persepolis Rising
James S.A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tom Holland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Persian Letters
Montesquieu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1721

Persian Nights
Diane Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Personal
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Personal Demon
Kelley Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Personal History
Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself
Florence Littauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Personal Memoirs
Ulysses S. Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1885

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
Mark Twain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1896

Persona normal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Perspective as Symbolic Form
Erwin Panofsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Persuasion
Jane Washington, Jaymin Eve

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

Pestilence
Laura Thalassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Pet
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Petals on the Wind
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
Greg Call, Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Peter and the Starcatchers
Dave Barry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Peter Camenzind
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1911

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie
J.M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Petersburg
Andrei Bely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Petey
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Petit pays
Gaël Faye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pet Sematary
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Pew
Catherine Lacey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Phaedra
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 54

Phantasma
Kaylie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1858

Phantom
susan-kay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Phantom (Harry Hole, #9)
Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Phantom Limb
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Phantoms
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
Tobias Wolff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Phèdre
Jean Racine

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Phenomenology of Perception
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1807

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Philaster
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Philebus
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 361

Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. (Beth Lambert, #1)
Bette Greene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1974

Philip Larkin
Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings
Phillis Wheatley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1773

Philoctetes
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Philomel Cottage: A Short Story
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Richard Rorty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
Pierre Hadot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Philosophy in the Boudoir
Marquis de Sade

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1795

Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)
Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1869

Phineas Gage
John Fleischman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Phoebe the Spy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Phormio
Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 161

Physics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 341

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Physik
Mark Zug, Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Piccadilly Jim
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1917

Picking Cotton: Our Memoir Of Injustice And Redemption
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, Erin Torneo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Pickman's Model
H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1836

Picnic
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Picture Bride
Yoshiko Uchida

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Picture Me Gone
Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Picture Miss Seeton (A Miss Seeton Mystery Book 1)
Heron Carvic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Picture Perfect
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Mark Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Pictures Of Hollis Woods
Patricia Reilly Giff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Picture Us in the Light
Kelly Loy Gilbert

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Picturing Will
Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Pie
Sarah Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Piece of My Heart
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Pieces of Her
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Pied Piper
Nevil Shute

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1942

Pie in the Sky
Remy Lai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Piercing the Darkness (Darkness, #2)
Wanda Assumpção, Frank E. Peretti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989