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The Girl I Used to Be
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl Next Door
Ruth Rendell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl of Ink and Stars
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl on the Cliff
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girls
Lori Lansens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
Genevieve Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Jeffrey Zaslow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Girls from Corona del Mar
Rufi Thorpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girls He Adored
Jonathan Nasaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Girls in the Picture
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Girls I've Been
Tess Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Girls of Atomic City
Denise Kiernan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girls of Slender Means
Muriel Spark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood
Diana McLellan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Girls We Sent Away
Meagan Church

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Girls with No Names
Serena Burdick

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl Who Came Home
Hazel Gaynor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Axie Oh

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
Heidi W. Durrow

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Fell into the Sky
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1974

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Lived
Christopher Greyson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Who Lived Twice
David Lagercrantz, George Goulding

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girl Who Owned a City
O.T. Nelson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Girl Who Played Go
Shan Sa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Jonas Jonasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Girl Who Speaks Bear
Sophie Anderson, Kathrin Honesta

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl Who Survived
Lisa Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Who Was Plugged In
James Tiptree Jr.

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1973

The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl With Glass Feet
Ali Shaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
Angela Slatter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl With No Past
Kathryn Croft

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
Hyeonseo Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girl With The Golden Eyes
Honoré de Balzac

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1833

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband
Julia Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl with the Silver Eyes
Willo Davis Roberts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1980

The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Given Day (Coughlin #1)
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Giver
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Giver Quartet
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1964

The Glamour
Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Glassblower
Samuel Willcocks, Petra Durst-Benning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Glass Key
Dashiell Hammett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Glass Lake
Maeve Binchy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Glass Magician
Charlie N. Holmberg

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

The Glass Ocean
Lauren Willig, Karen White, Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Glass Room
Simon Mawer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Glass Roses
Alden Nowlan

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

The Glass Town Game
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Glittering Court
Richelle Mead

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Gloaming
Kirsty Logan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
Odd Arne Westad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
Dani Rodrik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glorious Heresies
Lisa McInerney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72
William Manchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

The Glory of Christ
John Owen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1683

The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Goal
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Goddess Inheritance
Aimee Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

The Goddess Test
Aimee Carter

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The God Engines
John Scalzi

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2009

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Godfather
Mario Puzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The Godfather Returns
Mark Winegardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Godmother
Hannelore Cayre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The God of Animals
Aryn Kyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The God of Carnage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997