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The Places in Between
Rory Stewart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Playmaker
Thomas Keneally

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Playroom
John Connor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Play that Changed My Life
Ben Hodges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Pocket Wife
Susan Crawford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Poe Shadow
Matthew Pearl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Poisoner
Stephen Bates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Poison Tree
Erin Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Poison Tree
Alan Prendergast

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ponder Heart
Eudora Welty

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1954

The Porcupine of Truth
Bill Konigsberg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Portable Beat Reader
Ann Charters

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Possessed
Elif Batuman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Postmistress
Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Postmodern Condition
Jean-François Lyotard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Power of Moments
Chip Heath

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Power of Positive Thinking
Norman Vincent Peale

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1952

The Power of Six
Pittacus Lore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Power of Sympathy
William Hill Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1789

The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir
Gaby Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2012

The Prelude
William Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1850

The President is Missing
James Patterson, Bill Clinton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Prince of Fenway Park
Julianna Baggott

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

The Prince of Frogtown
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

The Prisoner of Chillon
James Patrick Kelly

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

The Privilege of Youth
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Prize
Jill Bialosky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Probability Of Miracles
Wendy Wunder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Problem of Social Cost
R. H. Coase

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1960

The Problem with Forever
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Promise
Ann Weisgarber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Promise of American Life
Herbert Croly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1909

The Promise of a Pencil
Adam Braun

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Prussian Officer
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1914

The Public and Its Problems
John Dewey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

The Pugilist at Rest: Stories
Thom Jones

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Pursuit of Happiness
Douglas Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Pushcart War
Jean Merrill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Eric Berlin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

The Quartet
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

The Queen of Katwe
Tim Crothers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Queen of Palmyra
Minrose Gwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Queen of the Night
Alexander Chee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Queen of the Tearling
Erika Johansen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Queen of Water
Laura Resau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
Josh Levin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

The Quest
Daniel Yergin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Race Beat
Gene Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Rachel Papers
Martin Amis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

The Rag and Bone Shop
Robert Cormier

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Ragged Edge of Night
Olivia Hawker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Rainbow Fish
Marcus Pfister

Fiction | Short Story | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1992

The Rapture of Canaan
Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Raven King
Maggie Stiefvater

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Real Boy
Anne Ursu

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Real Inspector Hound
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Reapers are the Angels
Alden Bell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1706

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1830

The Red-Haired Woman
Orhan Pamuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Red Queen
Margaret Drabble

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Red Room
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1896

The Reivers
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
Lloyd Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

The Republic of Imagination
Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

There's a Bug in My Blossom
J.C. Donaho

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

There's a Girl in my Hammerlock
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

The Rescue
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

The Residue Years
Mitchell S. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Revenant
Sonia Gensler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Revenge of Geography
Robert D. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Jonathan Evison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Oscar Zeta Acosta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Rice Mother
Rani Manicka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
Peter Parnell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

The Rising of the Moon
Flynn Connolly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Risk Pool
Richard Russo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Rithmatist
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Rivals
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1775

The River King
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The River Niger
Joseph A. Walker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The River of No Return
Bee Ridgway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The River Why
David James Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983