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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

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’s Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

God Sees the Truth, but Waits
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1872

God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Going Solo
Roald Dahl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1986

Going To Meet The Man
James Baldwin

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1965

Golden Son
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Gone
Michael Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1987

Good Bad Girl: A Novel
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Good Bones
Maggie Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Goodbye Columbus
Philip Roth

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1959

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 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 Country People
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1955

Good Energy
Casey Means

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World
Lauren Fleshman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Good Girl, Bad Blood
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Good Kings Bad Kings
Susan Nussbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Good Man
Angelo 'Eyeambic' Geter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Good Material
Dolly Alderton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Good Morning, Midnight
Lily Brooks-Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good Night, Irene
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Goodnight Mister Tom
Michelle Magorian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Good to Great
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Gooseberries
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

Gorgias
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Go Set A Watchman
Harper Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gospel of John
John the Apostle

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 90

Gossamer
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Go, Went, Gone
Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gracefully Grayson
Ami Polonsky

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Grant
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Granted
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Grass
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Graveyard Blues
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Gray After Dark
Noelle W. Ihli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Greasy Lake
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Greater Love
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Greenglass House
Kate Milford

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Green Grass, Running Water
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Greenwich Park
Katherine Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Greenwood
Michael Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Greetings From Witness Protection!
Jake Burt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Grenade
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Grendel
John Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Gretel in Darkness
Louise Glück

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Gris Grimly's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2007

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1785

Ground Zero
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Christie Tate

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Growing Up
Russell Baker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Guests of the Sheik
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Guns For General Washington
Seymour Reit

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Gwendy's Button Box
Richard Chizmar, Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Gym Candy
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Game of Silence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Le Thi Diem Thuy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

The Garden of Love
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962