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A Garden to Keep
Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Gift for Tenderness
Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

A Gracious Plenty
Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Graveyard for Lunatics
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Great Leap Forward
Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Gallows Hill
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Game
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Garbage Land
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Garden of Beasts
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Gathering the Bones
Ramsey Campbell, ed., Jack Dann, ed., Dennis Etchison, ed.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Genesis
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Gentlemen and Players
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

George Washington, Spymaster
Thomas B. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

George Washington's Secret Six
Don Yaeger, Brian Kilmeade

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Get in Trouble
Kelly Link

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghetto Klown
John Leguizamo

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghosts of War
Ryan Smithson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2009

Ghost Wars
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

Gilded Age
Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1957

Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1951

Girl at War
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Girl Waits with Gun
Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Give Me Liberty
Frank Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Give Us This Day
Helena Wisniewska Brow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Gladiator
Philip Wylie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Glass
Alex Christofi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Glory Over Everything
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Goddess Of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1942

Go Down Together
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Gods and Generals
Jeffrey Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

God Save the Child
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Vea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

God's Hotel
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

God's Long Summer
Charles Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

God's Secretaries
Adam Nicolson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

Goethe: The Poet and the Age
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Going Bovine
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Going Clear
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Gold
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gold Boy Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Golden Arches East
James L. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1937

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York
Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Golden Son
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Gone
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Gone to Ground
Brandilyn Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Good As Gone
Amy Gentry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good in Bed
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Good Me, Bad Me
Ali Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Good Neighbors
Ryan David Jahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Goodnight!
Andrei Sinyavsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1947

Good People
Marcus Sakey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Good to a Fault
Marina Endicott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Gorboduc
Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Gorilla, My Love
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

Gorillas in the Mist
Dian Fossey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Grace, Gold and Glory
Gabrielle Douglas, Michelle Burford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Graceland
Chris Abani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Graceling
Kristin Cashore

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Graffiti Moon
Cath Crowley

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Grandma Gatewood's Walk
Ben Montgomery

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Grasshopper Jungle
Andrew Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Grave Mercy
Robin LaFevers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Grave Silence
Rose Beecham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Gray Mountain
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Greasy Lake and Other Stories
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1985

Great at Work
Morten Hansen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Great House
Nicole Krauss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Green
Sam Graham-Felsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Green Angel
Alice Hoffman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

Green on Blue
Elliot Ackerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Green: The Light Within
S.M. Huggins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife
Susan Signe Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Grinding It Out
Ray Kroc

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Grit to Great
Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ground Zero
Andrew Holleran

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Group Portrait with Lady
Heinrich Böll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Growing Up Rich
Anne Bernays

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1982

Guantanamo Boy
Anna Perera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Guerrilla Warfare
Che Guevara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Guests of the Nation
Frank O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931

Guinea Dog
Patrick Jennings

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Gun, with Occasional Music
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Gutenberg's Apprentice
Alix Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Game of Love and Chance
Pierre Marivaux

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1730

The Game of Love and Death
Martha Brockenbrough

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Game of My Life
Jason J-Mac Mcelwain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Gargoyle
Andrew Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Gate of Angels
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Gate to Women's Country
Sheri S. Tepper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Geography of Genius
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Geography of Thought
Richard E. Nisbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Geography of You and Me
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The German War: A Nation Under Arms
Nicholas Stargardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ghost of Graylock
Dan Poblocki

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Ghost Road
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ghost Sonata
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Gilded Years
Karin Tanabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Girl From Everywhere
Heidi Heilig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl in the Red Coat
Kate Hamer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Girls
Lori Lansens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Girl Who Fell into the Sky
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1974

The Girl Who Played Go
Shan Sa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Jonas Jonasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
Angela Slatter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1964

The Glamour
Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Godfather Returns
Mark Winegardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The God of Animals
Aryn Kyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Gods Will Have Blood
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Gold Bug Variations
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Golden Age
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1918

The Golden Gate
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

The Golden House
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Golden Legend
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Golden Mean
Annabel Lyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Golden Spruce
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Good Good Pig
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Good House
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good Husband
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hašek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Gospel According to Larry
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Gospel of Judas
Simon Mawer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Graduate
Charles Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Grand Design
Donald Stoker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Grass Harp
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Grave
James Heneghan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Linda Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Great Bridge
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Great Depression
Pierre Berton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Great Divergence
Kenneth Pomeranz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Great Escape
Angus Deaton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Great God Brown
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1926

The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Great Mortality
John Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Great Santini
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Wide Sea
M. H. Herlong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Greek Way
Edith Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1930

The Green Road
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Grim Grotto
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Grimm Legacy
Polly Shulman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Guardian
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Guest Book
Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Guide
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958