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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

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

Q & A

Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1813

Queen of Shadows

Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Quicksand

Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Quicksilver

Callie Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Quidditch Through the Ages

J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Quiet Power: The Secret Strength of Introverts

Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Quilts

Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Quit India

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

Holly Whitaker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Quitters Inc.

Stephen King

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Rabbit, Run

John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Race

Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruha Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Race and Reunion

David W. Blight

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Race to the Sun

Rebecca Roanhorse

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s

Michael Omi, Howard Winant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

David Platt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power

Timothy B. Tyson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Radio Golf

August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Ragged Company

Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Ragged Dick

Horatio Alger

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1868

Ragtime

E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Rain of Gold

Victor Villaseñor

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Rain of Shadows and Endings

Melissa K. Roehrich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1959

Rain Reign

Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Raising Hare

Chloe Dalton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Ralph S. Mouse

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1982

Ramona and Her Father

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1977

Ramona and Her Mother

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

Ramona Forever

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1984

Ramona Quimby Age 8

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Ramona the Brave

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

Ramona the Pest

Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1968