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The Gods
Robert G. Ingersoll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1876

The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)
Lyndsay Faye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Gods of Guilt (The Lincoln Lawyer, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #26)
Michael Connelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
Jennifer Cody Epstein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

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 Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Go-Getter (a Story That Tells You How to Be One)
Peter B. Kyne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
Bob Burg, John David Mann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gold Bat
P.G. Wodehouse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Gold-Bug and Other Tales (Dover Thrift Editions: Gothic/Horror)
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1843

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 Gold Cell (Knopf Poetry Series)
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (University of Chicago Sociological Series)
Harvey Warren Zorbaugh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1929

The Golden Age
Joan London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Golden Age of Murder
Martin Edwards

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Golden Apples of the Sun

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

The Golden Ass
Apuleius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 159

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
James George Frazer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

The Golden Bowl
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Golden Cage
Camilla Läckberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Golden Couple
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Golden Dynasty
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Golden Enclaves
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

The Golden Fleece
Robert Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1944

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1918

The Golden Fool
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Golden Gate
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

The Golden Gate: A Novel
Amy Chua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Golden Goblet
Eloise Mcgraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

The Golden Hour
Niki Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Golden House
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Golden Key
Emmet Fox

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Golden Legend
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Golden Lily
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Golden Mean
Annabel Lyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Golden Name Day (Golden Name Day, #1)
Jennie D. Lindquist

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1955

The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Golden Road (The Story Girl, #2)
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1913

The Golden Spoon
Jessa Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Golden Spruce
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Goldfish Boy
Lisa Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Golem
Gustav Meyrink

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Gone World
Tom Sweterlitsch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows (The Good and Beautiful Series)
James Bryan Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Good Apprentice
Iris Murdoch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

The Good Daughter
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
Jasmin Darznik

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
Ann Neumann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Good Doctor
Damon Galgut

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Good Dog
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
Will Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Good Girl
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Good Good Pig
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Good Guy
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Good House
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good Husband
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Good Lawyer (Good Lawyer, #1)
Thomas Benigno

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Good Liar
Catherine McKenzie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Good Lie
A. R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Robert Waldinger, Marc Schulz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Good Lord Bird
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good Master
Kate Seredy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1935

The Good-Morrow
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2012

The Good Muslim (Bangla Desh, #2)
Tahmima Anam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Good Neighbor
A.J. Banner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Good People
Hannah Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Good Samaritan
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Good Shepherd
C.S. Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Good Sister
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hašek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
Kim Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Good Thief: A Novel
Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Good Turn (Cormac Reilly, #3)
Dervla McTiernan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Good Widow
Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Good Woman Of Setzuan
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time
David A. Vise, Mark Malseed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Goshawk
T.H. White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Gospel According to Larry
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Gospel in Brief (Texts & Contexts)
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1881

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
Nancy Tomes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Gospel of Judas
Simon Mawer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan (Tuttle Classics)
Michitsuna no Haha

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 974

The Governess Game
Tessa Dare

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1836

The Gown
Jennifer Robson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018