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Phases

Brandy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Phenomena: Poems

Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Philadelphia Fire

John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Philaster

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Philip Larkin

Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings

Phillis Wheatley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1773

Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Richard Rorty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Phormio

Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 161

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Pick a Color

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Picture Bride

Cathy Song

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1983

Picture Me Gone

Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Picture This

Joseph Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Picturing Will

Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Piece of My Heart

Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Herman Melville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1852

Piers Plowman

William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1962

Pig Girl

Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Pigs In Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Pilgrims Way

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Pippa Park Raises Her Game

Erin Yun

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Pippi in the South Seas

Astrid Lindgren

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1948

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 Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Plain, Honest Men

Richard Beeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Planet Money

Alex Mayyasi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Planet of the Apes

Pierre Boulle, Transl. Xan Fielding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Playground

50 Cent

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Playing Beatie Bow

Ruth Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

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

Playing Nice

JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Adrienne Maree Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Plum Island

Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Plus Size Player

Danielle Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

Poached

Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Pocket Bear

Katherine Applegate

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 2025

Point Blank

Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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

Pony Confidential

Christina Lynch

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

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

Al Ries, Jack Trout

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

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

Postcolonial Melancholia

Paul Gilroy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Fredric Jameson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Postwar

Tony Judt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Power

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Power of Persuasion

Stacey Abrams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Power Play

Chelsea Curto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Prairie Fires

Caroline Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Prayer

Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools

Tyler Staton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Pretty Little Wife

Darby Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Pride and Pleasure

Amanda Vaill

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

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