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Preacher, Volume 9: Alamo
Garth Ennis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #17)
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Precious Bane
Mary Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Predator
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
Patricia Cornwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Predator's Gold
Barnaby Edwards, Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com
Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape our Decisions
Dan Ariely

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Preface to Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Preludes & Nocturnes
Daniel Vozzo, Karen Berger, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Neil Gaiman, Malcolm Jones III, Todd Klein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Prelude to Christopher
Eleanor Dark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Prelude to Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Prep
Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Preparation For The Next Life
Atticus Lish

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios
Mike Glover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next
Bradley Onishi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Amy Cuddy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Dean Acheson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Brené Brown, Shauna Niequist

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
Richard E. Neustadt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
Michael R. Beschloss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Pre-Suasion
Robert B. Cialdini

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert B. Cialdini

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Pretending to Dance
Diane Chamberlain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pretend It's Love
Stefanie London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Pretend You Don't See Her
Mary Higgins Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Pretend You're Mine (Benevolence, #1)
Lucy Score

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Pretense
Lori Wick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Pretties
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Pretty Baby
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike
Kelly Sue DeConnick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Pretty Girls Dancing
Kylie Brant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Pretty Little Wife
Darby Kane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Pretty Reckless
L.J. Shen

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

Pretty Things
Janelle Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Prey
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Price of a Kiss
Linda Kage

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1813

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel
Cliff Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Pride and Premeditation
Tirzah Price

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Remix
Ibi Zoboi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Pride of Baghdad
Brian K. Vaughan, Niko Henrichon, Todd Klein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)
Sonali Dev

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Priest
Sierra Simone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Priest of Bones (War for the Rose Throne, #1)
Peter McLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Prima Facie
Suzie Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2024

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goldman, Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E. Boyatzis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Primates of Park Avenue
Wednesday Martin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Primer
Jennifer Muro, Thomas Krajewski, Illustr. Gretel Lusky

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Primeval and Other Times
Olga Tokarczuk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Primo Levi: A Life
Ian Thomson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1951

Prince Lestat
Anne Rice

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prince of Fire
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Prince of Fools
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Prince of the Blood
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Prince of the Elves
Kazu Kibuishi

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Prince of Thieves
Chuck Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Prince of Thorns
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

Prince of Wolves
Quinn Loftis

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1)
Quinn Loftis

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Princeps' Fury
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Princess Academy
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Princess and the Player
Ilsa Madden-Mills

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
jean-sasson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Princess in Love
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Princess in Pink
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Princess in the Spotlight
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Princess in Training
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Princess in Waiting
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Princess Mia
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Princess of Glass
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Princess of the Midnight Ball
Jessica Day George

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

Princess on the Brink
Meg Cabot

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2007

Princess Princess Ever After
Kay O'Neill

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Principia Ethica (Spanish Edition)
G. E. Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Principia Mathematica
Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

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

Principles
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Principles of Literary Criticism
I. A. Richards

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Principles of Philosophy
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Prior Analytics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #1)
Anne Blankman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Prisoner of Tehran
Marina Nemat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Tim Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Prisoners of the Sun (Tintin #14)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981