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Pirate Hunters

Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Pirates Past Noon

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

Pitcher Perfect

Tessa Bailey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

John Phillip Santos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Plain, Honest Men

Richard Beeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Planet of the Apes

Pierre Boulle, Transl. Xan Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Playing for Keeps

David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Playing for the Devil's Fire

Phillippe Diederich

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Playing for Time

Fania Fenelon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Play Their Hearts Out

George Dohrmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Play with Me

Becka Mack

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Pleasantville

Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Please Ignore Vera Dietz

A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Please Kill Me

Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Plus Size Player

Danielle Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Point Blank

Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Point Omega

Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Poirot Investigates

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1924

Poison

Bridget Zinn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Poison Study

Maria V. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Poland

James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

Polar Bears Past Bedtime

Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Polar Star

Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Political Liberalism

John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Amy Chua

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Politics and the English Language

George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Polostan

Neal Stephenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Charles T. Munger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Poor Economics

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1846

Poor Richard's Almanack

Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1732

Pope Joan

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Pop Goes the Weasel

James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

Maya Van Wagenen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2014

Portrait in Sepia

Isabel Allende

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Portrait of a Lady: A Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery

Diane A.S. Stuckart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Positive

Paige Rawl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Possession

A. S. Byatt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Post Captain

Patrick O'Brian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

Postcards from No Man's Land

Aidan Chambers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Power of Persuasion

Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Prairie Fires

Caroline Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Pretend It's Love

Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pretend You're Mine

Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pretty Baby

Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Primo Levi: A Life

Ian Thomson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Princess in Love

Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Princess of the Midnight Ball

Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Principia Mathematica

Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1910

Principle-Centered Leadership

Stephen R. Covey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Principles of Corporate Finance

Richard Brealey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Jacobo Timerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Doris Lessing

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Private

Maxine Paetro, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Steve Coll

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Prodigal Son

Gregg Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1783

Promise Me, Dad

Joe Biden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Proof of Heaven

Mary Curran Hackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Prophecy Of The Sisters

Michelle Zink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Prospero's Daughter

Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Prozac Nation

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Prudence

David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

PS, I Love You

Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Psycho-Cybernetics

Maxwell Maltz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Pucking Strong

Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Purgatory

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Purgatory Ridge

William Kent Krueger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Purity

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Purity in Death

J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Pushing The Limits

Katie McGarry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy

Bil Wright

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Painted Girls

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Painter

Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Painter from Shanghai

Jennifer Cody Epstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Palace Papers

Tina Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

The Paladin Prophecy

Mark Frost

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Pale Blue Eye

Louis Bayard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Panda's Thumb

Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Paris Express

Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Aimee Bender

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Passenger

Lisa Lutz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Passion of Artemisia

Susan Vreeland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

The Passion of New Eve

Angela Carter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Path

Michael Puett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Path Between the Seas

David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

The Path Made Clear

Oprah Winfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Patriot Threat

Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Peach Keeper

Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Peacock Emporium

Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Peloponnesian War

Donald Kagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Pentagon's Brain

Annie Jacobsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015