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The Palace of the Peacock
The Palace of the Peacock is a 1960 novel by Wilson Harris, his first, opening the Guyana Quartet, following Captain Donne's multiracial crew up a Guyanese rainforest river.
The Pale Horse
The Pale Horse is a 1961 detective novel by Agatha Christie, a standalone thriller without Poirot or Miss Marple whose thallium poisoning plot helped catch a serial killer.
The Pale King
The Pale King is David Foster Wallace's unfinished third novel, published by Little, Brown in April 2011 and assembled by editor Michael Pietsch from 328 fragments. Set at an IRS center in Peoria, Illinois, in 1985, it centers on boredom, attention, and an IRS automation battle.
The Palm and the Neighbours
The Palm and the Neighbours (النخلة والجيران) is a 1966 novel by the Iraqi writer Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, set in a poor Baghdad quarter during World War II.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard is a 1952 novel by Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, following Drinkard into the land of the dead to recover his dead palm-wine tapper.
The Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale, a Canterbury Tales story by Chaucer (Fragment 6), is an exemplum in which three rioters seeking Death find gold and kill each other, told by a self-confessed hypocritical pardoner.
The Paris Apartment
The Paris Apartment is Lucy Foley's 2022 William Morrow thriller in which Jess Hadley searches a Paris apartment building for her missing half-brother Ben, a mystery among secretive wealthy neighbors.
The Parliament of Fowls
The Parliament of Fowls, also known as the Parlement of Foules, is a Middle English dream-vision poem by Geoffrey Chaucer written around 1382, in which birds gather on St Valentine's Day to choose mates.
The Passage (Cronin novel)
The Passage (2010), Justin Cronin's post-apocalyptic vampire novel for Ballantine Books, opens his Passage trilogy with The Twelve and The City of Mirrors; 766 pages, government experiment Project NOAH, character Amy, Fox 2019 TV adaptation.
The Passenger (McCarthy novel)
The Passenger is Cormac McCarthy's 2022 Knopf novel about salvage diver Bobby Western, a sunken jet with a missing passenger, and his dead sister Alicia; companion to Stella Maris.
The Path of Daggers
The Path of Daggers (1998) is book eight of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, published by Tor Books; Rand al'Thor battles the Seanchan with Callandor while the Asha'man succumb to madness.
The Patient Stone
The Patient Stone (Persian: سنگ صبور) is a 1966 novel by Persian writer Sadeq Chubak, his last and most acclaimed work, set in a Shiraz tenement in the 1930s.
The Peasants
The Peasants (Chłopi) is a four-volume novel by the Polish writer Władysław Reymont, published 1904 to 1909 and honored with the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Penelopiad
The Penelopiad is Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella, written for the Canongate Myth Series, that retells the Odyssey from Penelope's perspective, her narration alternating with a chorus of her twelve hanged maids.
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, edited by poets John Tranter and Philip Mead, is a 1991 Penguin Australia anthology of twentieth-century Australian verse.
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Stephen Gray and published by Penguin in 1989, gathering poems from eight southern African countries.
The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature
The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature is a 1990 critical history by Patrick Evans, the first full-length study of New Zealand literature since McCormick's 1940 survey.
The Penguin Lessons (book)
The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird, Tom Michell's 2015 Ballantine memoir about rescuing a Magellanic penguin, Juan Salvador, from a Uruguayan oil slick in 1975 and keeping it at his Argentine boarding school; adapted into a 2025 Steve Coogan film.
The Penitent
The Penitent (Yiddish: Der bal-tshuve) is a short novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer about a New York businessman who joins an ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
The Penultimate Peril
The Penultimate Peril is the twelfth of thirteen books in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, published October 18, 2005 by HarperCollins. It is set at Hotel Denouement, where the Baudelaire orphans, disguised as concierges, face a trial, a harpoon-gun death, and the hotel's burning.
The People in My Country
The People in My Country (الناس في بلادي) is a 1957 poetry collection by Egyptian poet Salah Abd al-Sabur, a landmark of free verse in modern Arabic poetry.
The People in the Trees
The People in the Trees is Hanya Yanagihara's 2013 debut novel, a faux memoir of Norton Perina, a Nobel-winning doctor who discovers longevity on the Micronesian island Ivu'ivu and is later convicted of child abuse, loosely based on Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.
The People of Hemsö
The People of Hemsö is a comic 1887 novel by August Strindberg, in which the farmhand Carlsson marries his way into owning a farm in the Stockholm archipelago.
The People of Seldwyla
The People of Seldwyla (German: Die Leute von Seldwyla) is a cycle of ten novellas by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller, published in two parts in 1856 and 1873/74.
The People of the Abyss
The People of the Abyss is Jack London's 1903 account of poverty in London's East End, based on six weeks he spent living there in disguise in 1902.
The Perfect Couple (TV series)
The Perfect Couple is a 2024 American murder-mystery drama series created by Jenna Lamia, directed by Susanne Bier and starring Nicole Kidman, released on Netflix on September 5, 2024.
The Perfect Prince Loves Me, His Rival?! (王子の本命は悪役令息)
The Perfect Prince Loves Me, His Rival?! (当て馬キャラのくせして、スパダリ王子に寵愛されています) is an Ao Yuki BL isekai manga from WWWave; its 2024 AnimeFesta original anime, The Perfect Prince Loves Me, the Side Character?!, has 8 six-minute episodes by studio HōKIBOSHI, distinct from Re:mimu's 2022 villainess series.
The Perfect Storm (book)
The Perfect Storm (1997) is Sebastian Junger's narrative nonfiction account of the Andrea Gail, a Gloucester swordfishing boat lost with six crew in the October 1991 Halloween Storm off Nova Scotia; it popularized the phrase "perfect storm" and became a 2000 film.
The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden (al-Rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhat al-khāṭir) is a 15th-century Arabic sex manual by Muhammad al-Nafzawi of Nefzaoua, Tunisia, written 1410-1434 for the Hafsid court; known in English via Burton's 1886 French-based translation until Colville's 1999 direct Arabic version.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is Stephen Chbosky's 1999 epistolary YA debut, told in letters from freshman Charlie to an unnamed friend; a #1 NYT bestseller, frequently challenged book, and 2012 film directed by Chbosky.