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Poor Economics
Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee

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

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

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

Postcards from No Man's Land
Aidan Chambers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Pretend It's Love
Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 Academy
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Princess in Love
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Principia Mathematica
Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

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

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 Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
Steve Coll

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Private Lives
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1783

Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1820

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

Prudence
David Treuer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

PS, I Love You
Cecelia Ahern

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Purgatory
Tomás Eloy Martínez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Paladin Prophecy
Mark Frost

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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 Wife
Paula McLain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Aimee Bender

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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 Patriot Threat
Steve Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Peach Keeper
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The People's Platform
Astra Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Peppermint Pig
Nina Bawden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Perfume Collector
Kathleen Tessaro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Perilous Road
William O. Steele

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1958

The Photographer
Frédéric Lemercier, Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Physicists
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Katherine Howe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Pickup
Nadine Gordimer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

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 1799

The President is Missing
Bill Clinton, James Patterson

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