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The Princess Bride
William Goldman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

The Princess Diaries
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Princesse de Clèves (The Princess of Cleves)
Madame de La Fayette

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1678

The Princess of Las Vegas
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Prisoner's Throne
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses
Bessie Head

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1963

The Prison Healer
Lynette Noni

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1824

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Anthony Abraham Jack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1912

The Professor And The Madman
Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

The Professor's House
Willa Cather

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Program
Suzanne Young

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1757

The Promise
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Promise: The Omnibus (Parts 1-3)
Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Gene Luen Yang

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Pumpkin Spice Café
Laurie Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Puppets of Spelhorst
Kate DiCamillo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
Edmund S. Morgan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1958

The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1844

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Rick Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Alicia Garza

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster?
Ashley Audrain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Quarry Girls: A Thriller
Jess Lourey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Queen of Dirt Island
Donal Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Queen of Nothing
Holly Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Queen Of Spades
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1834

The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

The Queens of Crime
Marie Benedict

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Quiet American
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Quiet Librarian
Allen Eskens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

The Quiet Tenant
Clémence Michallon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Rachel Incident
Caroline O'Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Racial Contract
Charles W. Mills

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Racketeer
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Radical and the Republican
James Oakes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Raft
S.A. Bodeen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit

Fiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rainmaker
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R. K. Narayan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1907

The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1594

The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1712

The Rats in the Walls
H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

The Raven Boys
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Reading List
Sara Nisha Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult

The Real Thing
Henry James

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

There Are No Saints
Sophie Lark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Reckoning
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

The Recruit
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Red and the Black
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1895

The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Red Convertible
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1974

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Red Pencil
Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Red Pony
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1933

The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
Ida B. Wells

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

The Red Shoes
Sheila Black

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Sweater
Joseph O. Legaspi

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Red Umbrella
Christina Diaz Gonzalez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

There is no Frigate like a Book
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1866

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Fiona Hill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

The Rememberer
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2002

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Report Card
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Reptile Room
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

The Republic
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult