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Our Souls At Night
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

Outlander
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Outlawed
Anna North

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Outline
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1938

Out of the Woods
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Out of This Furnace
Thomas Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Out on a Limb
Hannah Bonam-Young

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson, Transl. Anne Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Pachinko
Min Jin Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Pack Up the Moon
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1939

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Paradise
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Paradise of the Blind
Duong Thu Huong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Paterson
William Carlos Williams

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

Pay It Forward
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Peace Like a River
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

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

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 We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Perelandra
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Perestroika In Paris
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Perfect Peace
Daniel Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Perfect Strangers
J.T. Geissinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Pet Sematary
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Phantasma
Kaylie Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Picture Bride
Yoshiko Uchida

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Pictures of You
Emma Grey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Pieces of Her
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Piglet
Lottie Hazell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Plainsong
Kent Haruf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

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

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1970

Playworld
Adam Ross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Pompeii: A Novel
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Poor Things
Alasdair Gray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Portrait of a Thief
Grace D. Li

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Potiki
Patricia Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Power: A Novel
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Powerless: A Small Town Friends to Lovers Romance
Elsie Silver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Practice Makes Perfect
Sarah Adams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Praise
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Praisesong For The Widow
Paule Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Prayers for the Stolen
Jennifer Clement

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prep
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Preparation For The Next Life
Atticus Lish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Presumed Guilty
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pretty Things
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Prey
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Priest
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Properties of Thirst
Marianne Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Prophet Song
Paul Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

PS: I Hate You
Lauren Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Punk 57
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Diane Glancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Q & A
Vikas Swarup

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Quicksilver
Callie Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Ragged Company
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Razorblade Tears
S. A. Cosby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996