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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 Greengage Summer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1958

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

The Grey Woman
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1861

The Griffin and the Minor Canon
Frank R. Stockton, Maurice Sendak

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1963

The Grifters
Jim Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Grim Grotto
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Grimm Legacy
Polly Shulman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Grip of Change
P. Sivakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Guardian
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Guardians
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)
Ken Bruen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Guest
Emma Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Guest Book
Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Guest List
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Guest Room
Chris Bohjalian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Guide
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Guilt Trip
Sandie Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Guilty (Will Robie, #4)
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising, #1)
Kiersten White

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

The Gum Thief
Douglas Coupland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gun
C.J. Chivers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Guncle
Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Gunners
Rebecca Kauffman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Gun Seller
Hugh Laurie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Gunslinger Born
Richard Isanove, Jae Lee, Stephen King, Robin Furth, Peter David

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Guns of Avalon
Roger Zelazny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Guns of Navarone
Alistair MacLean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

The Gustav Sonata
Rose Tremain

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Marshall McLuhan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

The Guy Not Taken
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2006