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The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George Washington Cable

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

The Grandmothers
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2003

The Grand Sophy
Georgette Heyer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Grasmere Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

The Grass Dancer
Susan Power

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Grass Harp
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Grave
James Heneghan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Grave Tattoo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Gravity of Us
Phil Stamper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Gray House
Mariam Petrosyan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

The Gray Man
Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Gray Wolf Throne
Cinda Williams Chima

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Great American Gold Rush
Rhoda Blumberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1)
Clive Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Linda Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Great Bear
David A. Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Great Brain (Great Brain, #1)
John D. Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1967

The Great Bridge
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper
Jean Van Leeuwen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Greatcoat
Helen Dunmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

The Great Depression
Pierre Berton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Great Depression: America in the 1930s
T.H. Watkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Great Divergence
Kenneth Pomeranz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Great Divide
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Great Divide (Marcus Glenwood Series #1)
T. Davis Bunn, Davis Bunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Great Divorce
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Great Escape
Angus Deaton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale
Philip van Doren Stern

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1943

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2001

The Greatest Salesman in the World
Og Mandino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Greatest Secret (The Secret, #5)
Rhonda Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Greatest Story Ever Told
Fulton Oursler

Fiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1949

The Greatest Thing in the World
Henry Drummond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1874

The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Great Fires
Jack Gilbert

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1925

The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

The Great God Brown
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1926

The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
Arthur Machen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1890

The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
Cecil Woodham-Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Great Hunt
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Great Influenza
John M. Barry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Great Mistake
Jonathan Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Great Mortality
John Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Great Passion
James Runcie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Great Quest
Charles Boardman Hawes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1921

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
Paul Theroux

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Reclamation
Rachel Heng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Great Santini
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

The Great Stink
Clare Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

The Great Treehouse War
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Great Trouble
Deborah Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Great Unexpected
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
Peter Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Wheel
Robert Lawson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1957

The Great Wide Sea
M. H. Herlong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Great Zoo of China
Matthew Reilly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Greek Alexander Romance
Richard Stoneman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 250

The Greeks and the Irrational
E.R. Dodds

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Greek Way
Edith Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1930

The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)
S.D. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Green Glass Sea
Ellen Klages

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Greenhouse
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Green Mile
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Green Road
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Grey King
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1975