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The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12)
Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1882

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
Alexandra Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
Gina Rippon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Gender Game (The Gender Game, #1)
Bella Forrest

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Generals (Brotherhood of War, #6)
W.E.B. Griffin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The General's Daughter
Nelson DeMille

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Genius
Jesse Kellerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Genius and the Goddess
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Genius Plague
David Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Margareta Magnusson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
Mackenzi Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Geography of Genius
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Geography of Thought
Richard E. Nisbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Geography of You and Me
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the First Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)
René Descartes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1637

The German Bride
Joanna Hershon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The German Girl
Armando Lucas Correa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The German Ideology
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

The German Midwife
Mandy Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The German War: A Nation Under Arms
Nicholas Stargardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The German Wife
Kelly Rimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Getaway
Lamar Giles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Getaway Girls
Dee MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1910

The Ghost
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Josephine Leslie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Ghost Belonged to Me (Blossom Culp, #1)
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1975

The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ghost Fields
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ghost Hunters (The Ghost Hunters #1)
Neil Spring

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ghost in the Machine
Arthur Koestler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

The Ghost In The Tokaido Inn
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Ghost of Graylock
Dan Poblocki

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

The Ghost on Saturday Night (Beech Tree Chapter Books)
Sid Fleischman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Ghost Orchid
Carol Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

The Ghost Road
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ghosts
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1969

The Ghost-seer (Hesperus Classics)
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1787

The Ghosts of Belfast (Jack Lennon Investigations #1)
Stuart Neville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ghost Sonata
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
Jefferson Morley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ghostway (Leaphorn & Chee, #6)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Ghostwriter
Julie Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Giant's House
Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Gift
Marcel Mauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The Gifted School
Bruce Holsinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Gift of Asher Lev

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1990

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin De Becker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Gift of Rain
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Gigantic Beard that Was Evil
Stephen Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Gilded Hour (The Waverly Place, #1)
Sara Donati

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Gilded Years
Karin Tanabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Ginger Tree
Oswald Wynd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1977

The Gioconda Smile
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Roald Dahl, Illustr. Quentin Blake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Girl Before
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Beneath the Sea
Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girlfriend
Michelle Frances

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl from Berlin (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart, #5)
Ronald H. Balson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Girl From Everywhere
Heidi Heilig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl from Montana
Grace Livingston Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1908

The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún, Volume 1
Nagabe, Adrienne Beck

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Girl from the Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Girl from the Train

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Girl from Venice
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl from Widow Hills
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl He Used to Know
Tracey Garvis Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl in 6E
A.R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girl in Cabin 13 (Emma Griffin FBI Mystery, #1)
A.J. Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl in His Shadow
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Girl in Red
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Girl in the Garden
Kamala Nair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Girl in the Ice
Robert Bryndza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl in the Mirror
Rose Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl in the Red Coat
Kate Hamer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl in the Road
Monica Byrne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl in the Steel Corset
Kady Cross

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011