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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 Sackville, Thomas Norton

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
Michelle Burford, Gabrielle Douglas

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

Habibi
Craig Thompson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Half a Chance
Cynthia Lord

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Hands of My Father
Myron Uhlberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Hansel and Gretel
Rika Lesser

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1984

Happy are the Happy
Yasmina Reza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Harlem: The Vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith
Morgan Smith, John Smith, Marvin Smith

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Harriet Jacobs: A Life
Jean Fagan Yellin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

Harriet's Daughter
M. NourbeSe Philip

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Harvest
Jim Crace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Harvey
Hervé Bouchard

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2001

HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Havana Nocturne
T. J. English

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1919

Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

Heat Wave
Richard Castle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Heaven Eyes
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Hegel: A Biography
Terry Pinkard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000