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Glass Sword
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Gleam
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gleanings
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Published in 2022

Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Glimmerglass
Jenna Black

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Glint
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Glitch
Laura Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Glory in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Glory Over Everything
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Glow
Amy Kathleen Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Goals: Setting And Achieving Them On Schedule
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Go as a River: A Novel
Shelley Read

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Goddess
Josephine Angelini

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Goddess Interrupted
Aimee Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Goddess Of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

God Grew Tired of Us
John Bul Dau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

God Help The Child
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Godkiller
Hannah Kaner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

God’s Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Vea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Godsgrave
Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

God's Hotel
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Gods in Alabama
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

God's Long Summer
Charles Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Gods & Monsters
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

God's Secretaries
Adam Nicolson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

God's Smuggler
John Sherrill, Brother Andrew, Elizabeth Sherrill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

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

Goethe's Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

Goethe: The Poet and the Age
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Going Bovine
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Going Clear
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Going Postal
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Going There
Katie Couric

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Going Too Far
Jennifer Echols

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Gold
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gold Boy Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Gold Coast
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Golden Arches East
James L. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1937

Golden Fool
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Golden Girl
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York
Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Golden in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Golden Prey
John Sandford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Golden Son
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Golden Trail
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Goldfinger
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Goliath
Keith Thompson, Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Gone
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gone for Good
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gone Missing
Linda Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gone to Ground
Brandilyn Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Gone Tonight
Sarah Pekkanen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Good As Gone
Amy Gentry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good Bad Girl: A Novel
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
Lysa TerKeurst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Good Boy
Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Goodbye Days
Jeff Zentner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
James Hilton

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1934

Goodbye Stranger
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Goodbye to All That
Robert Graves

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1929

Goodbye To Berlin
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Goodbye, Vitamin
Rachel Khong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Good Company
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Good Girl, Bad Blood
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Good Girl, Bad Girl
Michael Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Good Girl Complex
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Good Grief
Lolly Winston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Good in Bed
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Becky Kennedy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Good Kings Bad Kings
Susan Nussbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Good Material
Dolly Alderton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Good Me, Bad Me
Ali Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017