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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

Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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

Play Nice

Rachel Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Poems & Prayers

Matthew McConaughey

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult

Poetics

Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Point of Retreat

Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Politics

Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Politics Among Nations

Hans J. Morgenthau

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1948

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

Pop

Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Popcorn

Rob Harrell

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2024

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

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