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Pericles, Funeral Oration
Thucydides

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Permanent Record
Edward Snowden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

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

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

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Persian Letters
Montesquieu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1721

Persimmons
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Persuasion
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1817

Pet
Akwaeke Emezi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Peter and the Starcatchers
Dave Barry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

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

Petey
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Petrified Man
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

Pet Sematary
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Phaedo
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Phaedra
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 54

Phaedrus
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

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

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

Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1807

Philoctetes
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

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

Pictures Of Hollis Woods
Patricia Reilly Giff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Pictures of You
Emma Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Pie
Sarah Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Pieces of Her
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1939

Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Piglet
Lottie Hazell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Pimp: The Story of My Life
Iceberg Slim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Pincher Martin
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Pines
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Plagues and Peoples
William H. Mcneill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Plainsong
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Planetarium
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Planet Earth Is Blue
Nicole Panteleakos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Planet of Slums
Mike Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet
Zanib Mian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Play Along
Liz Tomforde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

Playground: A Novel
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Playing For Pizza
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1992

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Playworld
Adam Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Jessie Redmon Fauset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 1
Plutarch

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 100

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Camilla Townsend

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Pocho
José Antonio Villarreal

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1959

Poem about My Rights
June Jordan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Poem for Haruko
June Jordan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Poetics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Politics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1913

Pompeii: A Novel
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Pony
R. J. Palacio

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Poor Things
Alasdair Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Popol Vuh
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1554

Poppy
Avi

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1836

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Portrait of a Lady
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Po' Sandy
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

Postcard from Kashmir
Agha Shahid Ali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Posted
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Potiki
Patricia Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Power: A Novel
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Powerful: A Powerless Story
Lauren Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Powerless
Matthew Cody

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Powerless
Lauren Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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 Magic
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Practice Makes Perfect
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1907

Prairie Lotus
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Praise
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022