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Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

Walt Odets

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Out to Canaan

Jan Karon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Napoleon Hill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Over A Thousand Hills I Walk With You

Hanna Jansen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Overboard

Elizabeth Fama

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Over My Dead Body

Greg Melville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Over the Edge of the World

Laurence Bergreen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Owned

A. K. Rose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex

Aubrey Marcus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Packinghouse Daughter

Cheri Register

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Pagan Threat

Lucas Miles

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Paladin's Faith

T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Paladin's Hope

T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Paladin's Strength

T. Kingfisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Palaver

Bryan Washington

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Pale Rider

Laura Spinney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Palimpsest

Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Pandora's Lab

Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Panic

Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Pantagruel

François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Pantomime

Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

Paper Princess

Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paradais

Fernanda Melchor, Transl. Sophie Hughes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Paradise Road

Kirk Nesset

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Paradox

Douglas Preston, Aletheia Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Parakeet

Marie-Helene Bertino

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Paranoia

James Patterson, James O. Born

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Gad Saad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Paris to the Moon

Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Paris Trout

Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Park Avenue Summer

Renée Rosen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Parrot In The Oven

Victor Martinez

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1996

Party of Liars

Kelsey Cox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Passager

Jane Yolen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Passing Strange

Martha A. Sandweiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Pastoralia

George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Pastrami on Rye

Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Past the Shallows

Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Pather Panchali

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Pathologies of Power

Paul Farmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Patrimony

Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Patriot Games

Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Paula

Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire

Flora Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Paul Revere's Ride

David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Pavilion of Women

Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Payback's a Witch

Lana Harper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Peace Breaks Out

John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Peaches

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Peak

Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Peaks and Valleys: Making Good and Bad Times Work for You--At Work and in Life

Spencer Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Pearl Buck in China

Hilary Spurling

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Pearl Harbor: Warning And Decision

Roberta Wohlstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Pearl in the Sand

Tessa Afshar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Pearl of China

Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Pedagogy of Hope

Paulo Freire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Peeling the Onion

Günter Grass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Peeps

Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Pendragon: Arthur And His Britain

Joseph P. Clancy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1972

Penny from Heaven

Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1914

Peony In Love

Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

People Love Dead Jews

Dara Horn

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Rick Riordan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Perdido Street Station

China Mieville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Perfect Chemistry

Simone Elkeles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Peril at End House

Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Permission to Feel

Marc Brackett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Permutation City

Greg Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Persepolis Rising

James S. A. Corey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Personal

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Personal History

Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Persuader

Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Pestilence

Laura Thalassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Petals on the Wind

V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1906

Petersburg

Andrei Bely

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Peter the Great

Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

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