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A Painful Case
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2012

A Parchment of Leaves
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Passion In The Desert
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

A Patch of Blue
Elizabeth Kata

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1988

A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe, John Nathan, Kenzaburō Ōe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

A Pigeon and a Boy
Meir Shalev, Evan Fallenberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Pigeon's Tale
S.A. Mahan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

A Place to Belong
Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

A Pride of Poppies
Julie Bozza, et al.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
John Seelye, Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Palimpsest
Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Pantagruel
François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Pantomime
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult

Paradise Road (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 67)
Kirk Nesset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
Steve Scott, Victor Martinez

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Pastoralia
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Pather Panchali: Song of the Road
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Patriot Games (Jack Ryan, #1)
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Paula
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Flora Fraser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Pavilion of Women
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Peace Breaks Out
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1982

Peaches (Peaches, #1)
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Hilary Spurling

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Pearl of China
Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Peeps (Peeps, #1)
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Pendragon: Arthur And His Britain
Joseph P. Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Penny from Heaven
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Peony in Love
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Pericles
Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Personal History: A Memoir
Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
V. C. Andrews, V.C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life
Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Philosophical Investigations
G.E.M. Anscombe, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Richard Rorty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Phormio
Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 161

Picture Bride (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Cathy Song

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

Picture Me Gone
Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Picturing Will
Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Piece of My Heart (Inspector Banks, #16)
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1996

Pig Girl
Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2)
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Playing for the Devil's Fire
Phillippe Diederich

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Playing for Time
Fania Fenelon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Pleasantville (Jay Porter, #2)
Attica Locke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Please Ignore Vera Dietz
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Pnin
David Lodge, Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Point Blank (Alex Rider, #2)
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Point Omega
Don DeLillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2020

Poison
Bridget Zinn

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Poison Study (Study, #1)
Maria V. Snyder

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Poland
James A. Michener

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Political Liberalism
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Politics and the English Language
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1946

Poor Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003