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Praise
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Praise Of Folly
Desiderius Erasmus

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1511

Praisesong For The Widow
Paule Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Prayer
Dana Gioia

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

Prayers for the Stolen
Jennifer Clement

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prayer to the Masks
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Praying for Sheetrock
Melissa Fay Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape our Decisions
Dan Ariely

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Preface to Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1800

Preludes
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1917

Prep
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Preparation For The Next Life
Atticus Lish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios
Mike Glover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Amy Cuddy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
Richard E. Neustadt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Presumed Guilty
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Pretties
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Pretty Things
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Pretty Ugly
Karyn Langhorne Folan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Prey
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1813

Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Priest
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1951

Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Princess Academy
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Principles
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

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

Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Privilege, Power, and Difference
Allan G. Johnson

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

Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Problems with Hurricanes
Victor Hernández Cruz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

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

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

Prologue
Anne Bradstreet

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1650

Prometheus
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 456

Promise Me Sunshine
Cara Bastone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Kathryn J. Edin, Maria J. Kefalas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Sharon Robinson

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Proof
David Auburn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Propaganda
Edward Bernays

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1928

Properties of Thirst
Marianne Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Prophet Song
Paul Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Protagoras
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 390

P.S. Be Eleven
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Pseudolus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

PS: I Hate You
Lauren Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

P.S. I Still Love You
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Psycho
Robert Bloch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1959

Pucking Around
Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Pucking Sweet
Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Pucking Wild
Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Puerto Rican Obituary
Pedro Pietri

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Punching the Air
Yusef Salaam, Ibi Zoboi

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

Punishment
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Punk 57
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1316

Purity and Danger
Mary Douglas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Purple Heart
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Push
Sapphire

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Diane Glancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique W. Morris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Putting in the Seed
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1913

Pyramus and Thisbe
Ovid

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 8

The Pact
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosiński

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

The Painted Door
Sinclair Ross

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Painted Veil
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Painter
John Ashbery

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1955

The Pairing (The Proposition, #3)
Casey McQuiston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Palace Thief
Ethan Canin

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

The Pale Horse
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1961

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

The Paper Nautilus
Marianne Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Paradise Problem
Christina Lauren

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Barry Schwartz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Paris Agent
Kelly Rimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Paris Architect
Charles Belfoure

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Paris Bookseller
Kerri Maher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Paris Daughter
Kristin Harmel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023