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Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1960

Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Jackie Hill Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1927

Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East
Benjamin Law

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1)
Ashley Poston

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Geek Girl (Geek Girl, #1)
Holly Smale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Geisha
Liza Dalby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Geisha, a Life
Rande Brown, Mineko Iwasaki

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Gem & Dixie
Sara Zarr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Gemina
Amie Kaufman, Marie Lu, Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Gender and the Politics of History
Joan Wallach Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Generals Die In Bed
Charles Yale Harrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Generation A
Douglas Coupland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Generations of Captivity
Ira Berlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
Jean M. Twenge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Douglas Coupland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
Timothy J. Keller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Genesis
Bernard Beckett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Genesis (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery, #12)
Robin Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Conn Iggulden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection
John Man

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Conn Iggulden

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Cade Metz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Gentle Ben
Walt Morey

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1965

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Gentleman's Agreement
Laura Z. Hobson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

Gentlemen and Players
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Gentle Rogue
Johanna Lindsey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Geography Club (Russel Middlebrook, #1)
Brent Hartinger

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

George
Alex Gino

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (George, #2)
Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

George's Marvelous Medicine
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel
Américo Paredes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

George Washington, Spymaster
Thomas B. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

George Washington's Socks
Elvira Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Georgie, All Along
Kate Clayborn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Gerald's Game
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Germinal
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Geronimo: My Life (Native American)
Geronimo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1906

Gerontion

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Gertrude
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1910

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Get Even (Don't Get Mad, #1)
Gretchen McNeil

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Get in Trouble
Kelly Link

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
Dave Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
Jordan Peele

Nonfiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Chris Crowe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Getting Schooled (Getting Some, #1)
Emma Chase

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
Harville Hendrix

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William Ury

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Getting to Yes with Yourself: (and Other Worthy Opponents)
William Ury

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America's Most Famous Battle and the Turning Point of The Civil War (Zenith Graphic Histories)
Wayne Vansant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghetto Cowboy (the inspiration for Concrete Cowboy)
G. Neri, Jesse Joshua Watson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Ghetto Klown
John Leguizamo

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghettoside
Jill Leovy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ghost
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body (2011)
Martin Pistorius

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Ghosted
J.M. Darhower

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Ghost in the Machine (Skeleton Creek, #2)
Patrick Carman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick, Steve Wozniak, William L. Simon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghostlight
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Ghostman (Jack White #1)
Roger Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghost Of Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Neil Peart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Ghosts
Dolly Alderton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ghosts I Have Been (Blossom Culp, #2)
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1977

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Eve L. Ewing

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Mark Harmon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghosts of War
Ryan Smithson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2009