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Pashmina
Nidhi Chanani

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Passing
Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Paterson
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1946

Patina
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Patriot
Alexei Navalny

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Patterns of Culture
Ruth Benedict

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1934

Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1861

Paul's Case
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1905

Pax
Sara Pennypacker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Pax, Journey Home
Sara Pennypacker

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Pay Attention, Carter Jones
Gary D. Schmidt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Pay It Forward
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Peace
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1879

Peace Like a River
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Peak
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen
Richard M. Wunderli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1867

Pendergast: The Beginning
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Penitence
Kristin Koval

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Penpal
Dathan Auerbach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Pen Pal
J. T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Pensées
Blaise Pascal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1670

People Like Us
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2003

People Like Us
Jason Mott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

People of the Whale
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

People Watching
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1181

Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Perelandra
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Perestroika In Paris
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico, Transl. Sophie Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Perfect Peace
Daniel Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Perfect Strangers
J.T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Perhaps the World Ends Here
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Pericles
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Pericles, Funeral Oration
Thucydides

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Permanent Record
Edward Snowden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1795

Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi

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

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

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

Phantom Limb
Lucinda Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
John Fleischman

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
Brooke Averick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Phoebe the Spy
Judith Berry Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Physics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 341

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Picking Daisies on Sundays
Liana Cincotti

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

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