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Pandemonium
Daryl Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Pandora's Lab
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Panic
Lauren Oliver

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Panic (Panic, #1)
Lauren Oliver, 蘿倫·奧立佛

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 and Fire (The Great Library, #2)
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paperboy
Vince Vawter

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Paper Princess
Erin Watt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Paper Towns
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Paperweight
Meg Haston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Paper Wishes
Lois Sepahban

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Papillon
Henri Charrière

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Paradais
Fernanda Melchor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Parade
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2024

Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1928

Paradise
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1667

Paradise of the Blind
Duong Thu Huong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Paradise Regained
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1671

Paradise Road
Kirk Nesset

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1994

Paradise Rot
Jenny Hval

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Paradise Rot (The Island Trilogy,#1)
Larry Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Paradiso
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1320

Paradox Bound
Peter Clines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Parallel Journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 1995

Parallel Myths
J. F. Bierlein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Paranormalcy
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Parasite: A Graphic Novel in Storyboards
Bong Joon-ho

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
Mira Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Parched
Melanie Crowder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Paris
Edward Rutherfurd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Paris by the Book
Liam Callanan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Graham Robb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Paris in the Present Tense
Mark Helprin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Paris: The Memoir
Paris Hilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Parmenides
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Parnassus on Wheels (Parnassus, #1)
Christopher Morley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Partials
Dan Wells

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Party Going
Henry Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Party of Two
Jasmine Guillory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Party Princess
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Parvana's Journey
Deborah Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Parzival
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1215

Pashmina
Nidhi Chanani

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Passage to Dawn
R.A. Salvatore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Passenger
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Passenger to Frankfurt
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Passing
Nella Larsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Passing Strange
Martha A. Sandweiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Passion
Lauren Kate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Past Master
R.A. Lafferty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Pastoralia
George Saunders

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Past Tense
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Paterson
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1946

Pather Panchali
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Pathfinder
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Path of Destruction
Drew Karpyshyn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Path of the Pale Horse
Paul Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1992

Pathologies of Power
Paul Farmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Paths to Power: Living in the Spirit's Fullness
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Patience & Sarah
Isabel Miller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Patina
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Pat of Silver Bush (Pat of Silver Bush, #1)
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1988

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Patriot
Alexei Navalny

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Patriot Games
Tom Clancy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Patsy
Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Patternmaster (Patternmaster, #4)
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Pattern Recognition
William Gibson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005