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Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Positive Intelligence

Shirzad Chamine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Alice Walker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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

Presentation Zen

Garr Reynolds

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Present Over Perfect

Shauna Niequist

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Robert B. Cialdini

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Pretend It's Love

Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You

Julián Delgado Lopera

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Prince of Swords

Elise Kova

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

jean-sasson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Princess in Love

Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Princess in the Spotlight

Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

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 for Dealing With the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises

Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Principles of Corporate Finance

Richard Brealey

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

Principles of Geology

Charles Lyell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1830

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

Procrastination

Jane B. Burka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Prodigal Son

Gregg Hurwitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Professional Troublemaker

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Profiles in Ignorance

Andy Borowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings

Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

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

Promise Me Never

Liv Constantine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Promise Me Not

Meagan Brandy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Promise of Blood

Brian McClellan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Proof of Heaven

Mary Curran Hackett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Prophecy

Carissa Véliz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Prophecy Of The Sisters

Michelle Zink

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Prospero's Daughter

Elizabeth Nunez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Protocols

Andrew D. Huberman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Prozac Nation

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Prudence

David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

P.S. I Like You

Kasie West

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

PS, I Love You

Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Psycho-Cybernetics

Maxwell Maltz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Psychology

William James

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1892

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1901

Public Opinion

Walter Lippmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

Pucking Strong

Emily Rath

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Puddin'

Julie Murphy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Punching Bag

Rex Ogle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2021

Punished for Dreaming

Bettina L. Love

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Pure

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Pure Colour

Sheila Heti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Pushing Ice

Alastair Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

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 Paint Brush Kid

Clyde Robert Bulla

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

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-Faced Lie

David Crow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Palm House

Gwendoline Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Panda's Thumb

Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

The Paris Apartment

Kelly Bowen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Parisian

Isabella Hammad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Parisian Heist

Jo Piazza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Paris Seamstress

Natasha Lester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Paris Widow

Kimberly Belle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Aimee Bender

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002