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Chuck Palahniuk †

• Fight Club
• Lullaby

Christopher Paolini

• Eldest

Lisa Papademetriou

• The Wizard, the Witch and Two Girls from Jersey

Paul Park

• A Princess of Roumania
• The Tourmaline

Owen Parry

• Abel Jones series

Anne Patchett †

• Bel Canto

Katherine Paterson

• Jip

James Patterson

• 2nd Chance
• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
• Maximum Ride 2: School's Out Forever
• When the Wind Blows
• The Lake House

Gary Paulsen

• Hatchet
• The River
• Brian’s Winter
• Brian’s Return
• Brian’s Hunt
• Harris and Me
• The Boy Who Owned the School
• The Time Hackers

Mervyn Peake

• The Gormenghast trilogy

Matthew Pearl

• The Dante Club

Kit Pearson

• Awake and Dreaming
• The Guests of War trilogy
• A Handful of Time

Dale Peck

• The Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage

Richard Peck

• Blossom Culp series
• The Ghost Belonged to Me
• Ghosts I Have Been
• The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
• Blossom Culp and the Sleep Of Death

John Peel

• Diadem series

Daniel Pennac

• Kamo series
• Better Than Life

Dennis Pepper, ed.

• Young Oxford Book of...
• Aliens
• Animal Stories
• Christmas Stories
• Ghost Stories
• Horror Stories
• Nasty Endings
• Nightmares
• Supernatural Stories
• Time Warp Stories

S.D. Perry

• Resident Evil series

Diana Peterfreund

• Secret Society Girl †

Rodman Philbrick

• Max the Mighty

Jodi Picoult

• My Sister’s Keeper

Meredith Ann Pierce

• Birth of the Firebringer
• Dark Moon
• Son of Summerstars
• The Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood

Tamora Pierce

• Circle of Magic quartet
• Circle Opens quartet
• Circle Reforged quartet
• Tortall series
• Terrier
• Song of the Lioness quartet
• Alanna: The First Adventure
• In the Hand of the Goddess
• The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
• Lioness Rampant
• Immortals quartet
• Wild Magic
• Wolf-Speaker
• Emperor Mage
• The Realms of the Gods
• Protector of the Small quartet
• First Test
• Page
• Squire
• Lady Knight
• Trickster's Choice duo, aka Daughter of the Lioness series
• Trickster's Choice
• Trickster's Queen

Carol Plum-Ucci

• The Body of Christopher Creed
• What Happened to Lan Garver

Tim Powers

• The Anubis Gates

Terry Pratchett

• A Hat Full of Sky
• Monstrous Regiment

Stephen Pressfield

Susan Price

• The Sterkarm Handshake
• The Sterkarm Kiss

Natalie Jane Prior

• Lily Quench series

Philip Pullman

• Clockwork
• Count Karlstein
• Lyra's Oxford
• The Ruby in the Smoke
• The Tiger in the Well
• Shadow in the North

Mario Puzo

• The Godfather

Thomas Pynchon

• The Crying of Lot 49