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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

Psycho Shifters
Jasmine Mas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Queen Esther
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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 Hill
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1944

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 2023

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

Random Family
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Rape Fantasies
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977

Rappaccini's Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1844

Rashomon
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1915

Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service
Ken Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Raymie Nightingale
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Raymond's Run
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story | Middle Grade | Published in 24

Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reaching Out
Francisco Jiménez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne Wolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Francine Prose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Esau McCaulley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Reading with Patrick
Michelle Kuo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Read People Like A Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People's Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Patrick King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011