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Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Neil Peart

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1881

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 Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #2)
Kate Milford

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Ghost Squad
Claribel A. Ortega

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Ghost Story
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Ghost Wall
Sarah Moss

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ghost Wars
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Giant Days, Vol. 1 (Giant Days, #1)
John Allison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Gideon's Sword
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Gideon’s Trumpet
Anthony Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Gift From The Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1955

Gift of the Red Bird: The Story of a Divine Encounter
Paula D'Arcy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

Gild
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake (Gilda Joyce, #2)
Jennifer Allison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Gilded
Marissa Meyer

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

Gilded Age
Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts, #1)
Vic James

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Giles Goat-Boy
John Barth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1966

Gilgamesh
Joan London

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
Herbert Mason

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

Gilgamesh the King (Gilgamesh, #1)
Robert Silverberg

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1957

Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1951

Ginny Moon
Benjamin Ludwig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence
Gene A. Brucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Girl
Edna O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Girl A
Abigail Dean

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl Abroad
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Girl at War
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl, Forgotten
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Girl Giant and the Monkey King (Girl Giant and the Monkey King #1)
Van Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl in a Band
Kim Gordon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl In Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girl in Snow
Danya Kukafka

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girl In Translation
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girl, Missing (Girl, Missing, #1)
Sophie McKenzie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)
Kendare Blake

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Girl Online (Girl Online, #1)
Siobhan Curham, Zoe Sugg

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Melissa Bashardoust

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Girls in White Dresses
Jennifer Close

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Melanie Rehak

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Girls Like Us
Gail Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Girls Like Us: Fighting For a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale
Rachel Lloyd

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1)
Natasha Ngan, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Girls on Fire
Robin Wasserman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Girl, Stolen
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Girl Waits with Gun
Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
Rachel Dratch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Girl With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Girl with Curious Hair
David Foster Wallace

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1988

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1)
David Hunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

G is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone, #7)
Sue Grafton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1910

Give a Boy a Gun
Todd Strasser

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Give Me a Sign
Anna Sortino

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2023

Give Me Liberty
Frank Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Give Me Liberty!: Volume 1
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | YA | Published in 2022

Give Me More (Salacious Players Club, #3)
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Give Me Your Hand
Megan Abbott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Give Us This Day
Helena Wisniewska Brow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Gladiator
Philip Wylie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Glamorama
Bret Easton Ellis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Glamour in Glass (Glamourist Histories, #2)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Glass
Alex Christofi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Glass Houses
Rachel Caine

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Brian Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017