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Glimmerglass
Jenna Black

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010

Glinda of Oz (Oz, #14)
L. Frank Baum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1920

Glint
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Glitch
Laura Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Glitterland (Spires, #1)
Alexis Hall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quinn Slobodian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World
Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen
Michael Moorcock

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Glorious Boy
Aimee Liu

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Glory
Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

Glory Be
Augusta Scattergood

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Glory in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
A.S. King

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Glory Over Everything
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Glow
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
Jessie Inchauspé

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Glyph
Percival Everett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Gnomon
Nick Harkaway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Goa
Asif Currimbhoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Brian Tracy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Go as a River: A Novel
Shelley Read

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Goblin Secrets (Zombay, #1)

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
Gerald Schroeder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

God and Reason in the Middle Ages
Edward Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

God and the State
Mikhail Bakunin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1882

Godan (Hindi Edition)
Munsi Premchand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

God Calling: Devotionals for Restoring Faith and Serenity
A.J. Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1899

Goddesses in Everywoman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Goddess Interrupted
Aimee Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Goddess of Filth
V. Castro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Goddess Of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Goddess (Starcrossed, #3)
Josephine Angelini

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

God Don't Like Ugly (God Don't Like Ugly, #1)
Mary Monroe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

God Grew Tired of Us
John Bul Dau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

God Help The Child
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
Stephen Prothero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
Vine Deloria Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Godkiller
Hannah Kaner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America
Lyz Lenz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Godless
Pete Hautman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1942

Go Down Together
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Gods and Generals
Jeffrey Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

God Save the Child
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Gods Behaving Badly
Marie Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

God’s Bits of Wood
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Vea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

Godsgrave
Jay Kristoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Godshot
Chelsea Bieker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

God's Hotel
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Gods in Alabama
Joshilyn Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

God's Little Acre
Erskine Caldwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

God's Long Summer
Charles Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts
Lynd Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1929

Gods & Monsters
Shelby Mahurin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
Bart D. Ehrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

God's Red Son: the Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Louis S. Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

God's Secretaries
Adam Nicolson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

God's Silence
Franz Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

God's Smuggler
John Sherrill, Brother Andrew, Elizabeth Sherrill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)
Kameron Hurley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Goethe's Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1808

Goethe: The Poet and the Age
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Going Bovine
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Going Clear
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters
Anne Kreamer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine
Janet Evanovich

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Going There
Katie Couric

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Going Too Far
Jennifer Echols

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Gold
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Gold Boy Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Gold Coast
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Gold Diggers
Sanjena Sathian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3)
Jane Smiley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Golden Arches East
James L. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1937

Golden Child
Claire Adam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Golden Country
Jennifer Gilmore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Golden Fool
Robin Hobb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Golden Girl
Elin Hilderbrand

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Goldengrove
Francine Prose

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York
Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Golden in Death
J.D. Robb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020