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Guests of the Sheik
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Jonathan Swift

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1726

Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Guns For General Washington
Seymour Reit

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Guts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Gwendy's Button Box
Stephen King, Richard Chizmar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Gym Candy
Carl Deuker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1866

The Game of Silence
Louise Erdrich

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Games Gods Play
Abigail Owen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Le Thi Diem Thuy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1986

The Garden of Forking Paths
Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1941

The Garden of Love
William Blake

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Garden Party
Katherine Mansfield

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1922

The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
Anita Phillips

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Garies and Their Friends
Frank J. Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1857

The Gathering
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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 General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | 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 Wife
Kelly Rimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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 Ghostwriter
Julie Clark

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Gift
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

The Gift
Marcel Mauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

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 Gift of the Magi
O. Henry

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1905

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Irvin D. Yalom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Gift Outright
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1941

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 Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Gilded Six-Bits
Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1986

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

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Girl Before
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl in His Shadow
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Girl I Used to Be
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girls
Emma Cline

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girls in the Garden: A Novel
Lisa Jewell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girls in the Stilt House
Kelly Mustian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Girls of Atomic City
Denise Kiernan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

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 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 With Fire
Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 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 Who Was Taken
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
Kelli Estes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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 Louding Voice
Abi Daré

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Giver
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glass Essay
Anne Carson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Glassmaker
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

The Glass of Milk
Manuel Rojas

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1994

The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Goddess of Warsaw
Lisa Barr

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Godfather
Mario Puzo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1968

The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The God of the Woods
Liz Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Gold Bug
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1843

The Gold Cadillac
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

The Golden Ass
Apuleius

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 159

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
James George Frazer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1890

The Golden Bowl
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1904

The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Golden Couple
Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Golden Gate: A Novel
Amy Chua

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Golden Goblet
Eloise Mcgraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1961

The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Golden Spoon
Jessa Maxwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013