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Pierre and Luce
Romain Rolland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1852

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)
Georges Simenon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1962

Pigeon Post (Swallows and Amazons, #6)
Arthur Ransome

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1936

Pig Girl
Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Piggy
Mireille Geus

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Pig Heart Boy
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Piglet
Lottie Hazell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Pigs In Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Pilgrims Way
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Pincher Martin
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Pine
Francine Toon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Pines
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Pink Mist
Owen Sheers

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2013

Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women (Classics in Women’s Studies)
Elizabeth Blackwell, Amy Sue Bix

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1970

Pippa Park Raises Her Game (1)
Erin Yun

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Pippi Goes on Board
Astrid Lindgren, Florence Lamborn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1946

Pippi in the South Seas
Astrid Lindgren

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1948

Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Pirate Cinema
Cory Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Pirate Hunters
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Pirate Latitudes
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Pirates!
Celia Rees

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Pirates of Venus (Venus, #1)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

P is for Peril
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
Oren Klaff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
Bill McGowan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Pizza Girl
Jean Kyoung Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Place Apart
Dervla Murphy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Plague
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Plagues and Peoples
William H. Mcneill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Plain Bad Heroines
Sara Lautman, Emily M. Danforth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Plain, Honest Men
Richard Beeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Plain Kate
Erin Bow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Plainsong
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Planet Earth Is Blue
Nicole Panteleakos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Planetfall (Planetfall, #1)
Emma Newman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Planet of Slums
Mike Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Planet of the Apes
Xan Fielding, Pierre Boulle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Planet of the Damned
Harry Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet
Zanib Mian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Platform
Frank Wynne, Michel Houellebecq

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Plato: Complete Works
Plato

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 401

Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends
Marisa G. Franco

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Play
Kylie Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Play Along
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Playboy Pilot
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Play Dead
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood
Jean Piaget

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Playing Beatie Bow
Ruth Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead
Tara Mohr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Playing for Keeps
R.L. Mathewson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Playing Hard to Get
Monica Murphy

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Playing Nice
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
John Carlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Playing to Win
A. G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Playing with Fire
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Play of Passion
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Play Their Hearts Out
George Dohrmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Play with Me
Kristen Proby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Play with Me (Playing for Keeps, #2)
Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Adrienne Maree Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Pleasure of a Dark Prince
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Pleasure Unbound
Larissa Ione

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Plowing the Dark
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Jessie Redmon Fauset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Plum Island (John Corey, #1)
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Plum Lovin'
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Plum Lucky
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Plum Rains
Andromeda Romano-Lax

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Plum Spooky
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1
Plutarch

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 100

Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Poachers: Stories
Tom Franklin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1999

Pobby and Dingan
Ben Rice

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Pocahontas
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Camilla Townsend

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Pocho
José Antonio Villarreal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1959

Poems Old and New
John Freeman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Poetics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Poetics of Relation
Édouard Glissant

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997