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Poetry Is Not a Luxury
Audre Lorde

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Point Blank
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Point of No Return
John P. Marquand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

Point of Origin
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Point of Retreat
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Point Omega
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Points of Origin
Darden North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Poison
Bridget Zinn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Poison Princess
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Poison Study
Maria V. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Poison (Tales from the Kingdoms, #1)
Sarah Pinborough

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Poland
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Polar Bears Past Bedtime (Magic Tree House, #12)
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Polar Star
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Polgara the Sorceress
Leigh Eddings, David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Police
Don Bartlett, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Polio: An American Story
David M. Oshinsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Political Liberalism
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Carl Schmitt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Politics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Politics Among Nations
Hans J. Morgenthau

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1948

Politics and the English Language
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1913

Polyeucte
Pierre Corneille

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1641

Polygraph (Modern Plays)
Robert Lepage, Marie Brassard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Jessica Fern

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Pompeii: A Novel
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Pony
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Pool Boy (Readers Circle)
Michael Simmons, Chad Lowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
Perumal Murugan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Poor Economics
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Poor Miss Finch
Wilkie Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1872

Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1732

Poor Things
Alasdair Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Poor Unfortunate Soul
Serena Valentino

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Pop
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Pop. 1280 (Mulholland Classic)
Jim Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

Popcorn
Rob Harrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

Pope Joan
Donna Woolfolk Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Pop Goes the Weasel
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross, #5)
M.J. Arlidge, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Popol Vuh
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1554

Poppy
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
Maya Van Wagenen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Portrait in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Portrait of a Lady: A Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery
Diane A.S. Stuckart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Portrait of a Scotsman
Evie Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Portrait of a Spy
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Portrait of Clare
Francis Brett Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Al Ries, Jack Trout

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Positive
Paige Rawl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Possessing the Secret of Joy
Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Possession
A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Post Captain
Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Postcards
Annie Proulx

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1992

Postcards From a Stranger
Imogen Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Postcards from No Man's Land
Aidan Chambers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Posted
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #5)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
Edward W. Soja

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Butler

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
Patricia Cornwell, Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Post Office
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
Frank Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Lee McIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Potiki
Patricia Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Powder and Patch
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

Power: A Novel
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Power Forward (1) (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream)
Hena Khan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Powerful: A Powerless Story
Lauren Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Powerless
Matthew Cody

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Powerless: A Small Town Friends to Lovers Romance
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Julia Kristeva

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
David R. Hawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Practical Demonkeeping
Christopher Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Practice Makes Perfect
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises From The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
William James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1907

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Madeleine K. Albright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012