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The Girl Before
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Beneath the Sea
Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girlfriend
Michelle Frances

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl From Everywhere
Heidi Heilig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl from the Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

The Girl from Widow Hills
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl He Used to Know
Tracey Garvis Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl in 6E
A.R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl in His Shadow
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Girl in the Ice
Robert Bryndza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl in the Mirror
Rose Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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 in the Steel Corset
Kady Cross

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl in the Tower
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2017

The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Girl I Used to Be
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl Next Door
Jack Ketchum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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 Girls I've Been
Tess Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

The Girls of Atomic City
Denise Kiernan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girl Who Came Home
Hazel Gaynor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
Heidi W. Durrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Fell into the Sky
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1974

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Lived
Christopher Greyson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Who Lived Twice
David Lagercrantz, George Goulding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girl Who Owned a City
O.T. Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Girl Who Played Go
Shan Sa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Steig Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Jonas Jonasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Girl Who Survived
Lisa Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Who Was Plugged In
James Tiptree Jr.

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1973

The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
Angela Slatter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl With No Past
Kathryn Croft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Hyeonseo Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Given Day
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Giver
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Glassblower
Samuel Willcocks, Petra Durst-Benning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Glass Lake
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glass Magician
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Glassmaker
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

The Glass Ocean
Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Glittering Court
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Goddess Inheritance
Aimee Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Goddess of Warsaw
Lisa Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Goddess Test
Aimee Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Godfather
Mario Puzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Godfather Returns
Mark Winegardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The God of Animals
Aryn Kyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Gods of Guilt
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Gold Cadillac
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

The Golden Age
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Golden Ass
Apuleius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 159

The Golden Bowl
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Golden Cage
Camilla Läckberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Golden Couple
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022