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Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Posted
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Postmortem
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Post Office
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

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

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

Premium Harmony
Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

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 Lives
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

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

Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1820

Promise Boys
Nick Brooks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Promise Me Sunshine
Cara Bastone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Promises and Pomegranates
Sav R. Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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

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

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
Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam

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