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A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
Joan W. Blos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1979

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Gesture Life
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Girl Called Samson
Amy Harmon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Glimpse
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1955

A Good Neighborhood
Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

A Great Need
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Galatea
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Gallant
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Game Changer
Tommy Greenwald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Game Changer
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Games at Twilight
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Games Untold
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Gang Leader For a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Gangsta Granny
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gargantua And Pantagruel
Transl. Thomas Urquhart, François Rabelais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

Gate A-4
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
George Chauncey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

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

Generations of Captivity
Ira Berlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

George
Alex Gino

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

George Gray
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

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's Farewell Address
George Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1796

George Washington's Socks
Elvira Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Gerald's Game
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Germinal
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
Bianca Bosker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Getting to Yes
William Ury, Roger Fisher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

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

Ghosted
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ghost Of Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1881

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 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

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

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

Gild
Raven Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Gimpel the Fool
Transl. Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1953

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
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Girl In Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

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 With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775

Give Me Liberty!: Volume 1
Eric Foner

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

Giving Voice To Values
Mary C. Gentile

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Glass Sword
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Glitch
Laura Martin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Glow of the Everflame
Penn Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Go as a River: A Novel
Shelley Read

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023