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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Principles of Literary Criticism
I. A. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Principles of Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1644

Prior Analytics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 351

Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #1)
Anne Blankman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Prisoner of Tehran
Marina Nemat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Tim Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Prisoners of the Sun (Tintin #14)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Private
Maxine Paetro, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Private Games
Mark T. Sullivan, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Private Lives
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Private (Private, #1)
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Privilege, Power, and Difference
Allan G. Johnson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Problem of Increasing Human Energy
Nikola Tesla

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1900

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
Alfred North Whitehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1929

Prodigal Son
Dean Koontz, Scott Brick, Kevin J. Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Prodigy
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Profiles in Courage
John F. Kennedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Mike Michalowicz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Progress and Poverty
Henry George

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1879

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Project Mulberry
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Projekt 1065
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1783

Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Prologue
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1650

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 456

Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1820

Promise
Minrose Gwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Promise Boys
Nick Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Promised Land
Martin Fletcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Promised Land (Spenser, #4)
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Promise Me
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Promise Me Sunshine
Cara Bastone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Promise Not to Tell
Jennifer McMahon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Promise of Blood
Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Promises in Death (In Death, #28)
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Proof
David Auburn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Proof of Heaven
Mary Curran Hackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Propaganda
Edward Bernays

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1928

Properties of Thirst
Marianne Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Prophecy Of The Sisters
Michelle Zink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Prophet Song
Paul Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1918

Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
Tim Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Prospero's Daughter
Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Protect and Defend
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Protecting What's His
Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Protecting What's Mine (Benevolence, #3)
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Protector (Known Space)
Larry Niven

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Prothalamion : Epithalamion
Edmund Spenser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1902

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Maryanne Wolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Provenance (Imperial Radch)
Ann Leckie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Proven Guilty
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Providence
Jamie McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Provinces of Night
William Gay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Dipesh Chakrabarty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Prozac Nation
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Prudence
David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pseudolus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum
Johann Weyer, Johann Weirus, Johann Weir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1577

P.S. from Paris
Sam Taylor, Marc Levy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

P.S. I Like You
Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

P.S. I Still Love You
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Psmith in the City (Psmith, #2)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

Psmith, Journalist (Psmith, #3)
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals
Shawn Christopher Shea

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Psychiatric Tales
Darryl Cunningham

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
Maxwell Maltz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Psychology and Religion
C.G. Jung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People
Jackson MacKenzie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Psycho Shifters (Cruel Shifterverse, #1)
Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Public and Private Families: An Introduction
Andrew J. Cherlin

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1902

Public Secrets
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Pucked
Helena Hunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pucked Over
Helena Hunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pucked Up
Helena Hunting

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pucking Around
Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Puck of Pook's Hill

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 1906

Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)
Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Pulp
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Pulse (Pulse, #1)
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Pumpkin (Dumplin', #3)
Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Pumpkinheads
Rainbow Rowell, Illustr. Faith Erin Hicks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Punching the Air
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2020

Punch Me Up to the Gods
Brian Broome

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Punished!
David Lubar

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006