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GENRES

Pseudolus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

P.S. I Still Love You
Jenny Han

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Pucking Around
Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

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

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 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 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

The Paris Library: A Novel
Janet Skeslien Charles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Parker Inheritance
Varian Johnson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

The Partial Explanation
Charles Simic

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

The Partner
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Passage
Justin Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Passing of Grandison
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1899

The Passion
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1599

The Patron Saint of Liars
Ann Patchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Pearl
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1947

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Nadia Hashimi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1951

The Pelican Brief
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Penelopiad
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Virginia Hamilton

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The People in the Trees
Hanya Yanagihara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The People of Paper
Salvador Plascencia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The People of Sparks
Jeanne DuPrau

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The People We Keep
Allison Larkin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Perfect Couple
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Perfect Escape
Suzanne Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Perfect Marriage
Jeneva Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Perfect Nanny
Leïla Slimani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Perfect Son
Freida McFadden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Perfect Storm
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Perils of Indifference
Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1999

The Peripheral
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Persians
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
Dolly Chugh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1846

The Pianist
Władysław Szpilman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

The Piano Lesson
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Piazza
Herman Melville

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1856

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1890

The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1842

The Pigman
Paul Zindel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1968

The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1002

The Pilot's Wife
Anita Shreve

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Pinballs
Betsy Byars

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

The Pioneers
James Fenimore Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1823

The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1842

The Plague
Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

The Plague Of Doves
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Plantation
Ovo Adagha

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Plot Against America
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Poem of the Cid (The Song of the Cid)
Anonymous

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCE

The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2018

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1881

The Possibility of Evil
Shirley Jackson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965