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A Painful Case
James Joyce

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Painted House
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Pair of Silk Stockings
Kate Chopin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Parchment of Leaves
Silas House

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Passion in the Desert
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Patch of Blue
Elizabeth Kata

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Patchwork Planet
Anne Tyler

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Pearl in the Storm
Tori Murden McClure

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Perfect Day for Bananafish
J. D. Salinger

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oe

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Pickpocket's Tale
Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Piece of the World
Christina Baker Kline

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Pigeon and a Boy
Meir Shalev

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Pigeon's Tale
S.A. Mahan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Place Called Freedom
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Place to Belong
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Pride of Poppies
Julie Bozza, et al.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Primate's Memoir
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Problem from Hell
Samantha Power

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
E. L. Konigsburg

Fiction | Novel | YA

Packinghouse Daughter
Cheri Register

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Palimpsest
Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Pandora's Lab
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Pantagruel
François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pantomime
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult

Paperboy
Vince Vawter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Paper Princess
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | YA

Paradise Road
Kirk Nesset

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Parallel Journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Paris Trout
Pete Dexter

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Parrot In The Oven
Victor Martinez

Fiction | Novel | YA

Passing Strange
Martha A. Sandweiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Pastoralia
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pathologies of Power
Paul Farmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Patriot Games
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Paula
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Flora Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Pavilion of Women
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Peace Breaks Out
John Knowles

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Peace Like a River
Leif Enger

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Peaches
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA

Pearl Buck in China
Hilary Spurling

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Pearl Harbor: Warning And Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Pearl of China
Anchee Min

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Peeps
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA

Pendragon: Arthur And His Britain
Joseph P. Clancy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Penny from Heaven
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Peony In Love
Lisa See

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Perdido Street Station
China Mieville

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Perfect Chemistry
Simone Elkeles

Fiction | Novel | YA

Pericles
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Marjane Satrapi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Personal History
Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Petals on the Wind
V. C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Peyton Place
Grace Metalious

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Phantastes
George MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Philaster
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult

Philip Larkin
Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings
Phillis Wheatley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Richard Rorty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Phineas Gage
John Fleischman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Phormio
Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult

Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Picture Bride
Cathy Song

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Picture Me Gone
Meg Rosoff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Picturing Will
Ann Beattie

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Piece of My Heart
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Pig Girl
Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult

Pigs In Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pines
Blake Crouch

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Pirate Hunters
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Plain, Honest Men
Richard Beeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult