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A Gambling Man
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

A Game of Fate
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Game of Gods
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Game of Retribution
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One
Tommy Patterson, Daniel Abraham, George R.R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A Garden of Earthly Delights (Wonderland Quartet, #1)
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

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 Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
Joan W. Blos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Gathering of Shadows
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A General Theory of Magic
Marcel Mauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902

A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
Nicholas Rankin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Gesture Life
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

A Gift for Tenderness
Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless
Danielle Steel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Gift of Magic
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

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 Girl's Story

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening: A Novel
Mário de Carvalho, Gregory Rabassa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
Tahmima Anam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Good and Happy Child
Justin Evans

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Good Marriage
Kimberly McCreight

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Good Neighborhood
Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

A Good Yarn
Debbie Macomber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

A Gracious Plenty
Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Grammarian's Funeral (Shortly after the Revival of Learning in Europe)
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult

A Grave Talent (Kate Martinelli, #1)
Laurie R. King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

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

A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)
Chris Colfer, Brandon Dorman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

A Guest in the House
Emily Carroll

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William B. Irvine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)
Project Management Institute

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

A Gun for Sale
Graham Greene

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Gabriel's Inferno
Sylvain Reynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Gabriel's Rapture
Sylvain Reynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gabriel's Redemption
Sylvain Reynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Gaby, Lost and Found
Angela Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3)
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Galactic Pot-Healer
Philip K. Dick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Gallant
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Gallions Reach
H.M. Tomlinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1927

Gallows Hill
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)
Peter Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Galore
Michael Crummey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Galveston
Nic Pizzolatto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Game
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Gameboard of the Gods (Age of X, #1)
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Game Changer
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Game Changers (Game Changers, #1)
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Games of the Heart
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Games People Play
Eric Berne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (Naughty French Novels, 1)
Alfred de Musset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1833

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Gang Leader For a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Gangsta Granny
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Gap Creek
Gap Creek, Robert Morgan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Garbage Land
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Garden of Beasts
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Garden of Lies
Amanda Quick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Garden of Shadows
V.C. Andrews

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1987

Gardens in the Dunes
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais, M.A. Screech

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1532

Gargantua And Pantagruel
François Rabelais, Transl. Thomas Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gate of the Sun
Elias Khoury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gateway
Frederik Pohl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Gather, Darkness!
Fritz Leiber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Gathering Darkness
Michelle Rowen, Morgan Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014