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The Goldfish Boy
Lisa Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good Daughter
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931

The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
Will Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Good Girl
Mary Kubica

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Good Lie
A. R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Good Life
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

The Good Lord Bird
James McBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Charles Graeber

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good Part
Sophie Cousens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Good Sister
Sally Hepworth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Good Thief: A Novel
Hannah Tinti

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Good Woman Of Setzuan
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

The Goophered Grapevine
Charles W. Chesnutt

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2008

The Goose Fish
Howard Nemerov

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

The Gospel Of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1889

The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1836

The Gown
Jennifer Robson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Grace Year
Kim Liggett

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Graham Effect
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Grandest Game
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

The Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

The Grass Dancer
Susan Power

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Grasshopper and the Bell-Cricket
Yasunari Kawabata

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1926

The Grass is Singing
Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Great Bear
David A. Robertson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1984

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Great Divide
Cristina Henríquez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Great Divorce
C. S. Lewis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1945

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2001

The Greatest Salesman in the World
Og Mandino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1925

The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1978

The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

The Great Hunt
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Great Influenza
John M. Barry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Great Lawsuit
Margaret Fuller

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1843

The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

The Great Treehouse War
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

The Great Trouble
Deborah Hopkinson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

The Great Unexpected
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Green Glass Sea
Ellen Klages

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

The Green Mile
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Guardians
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Guardians
Ana Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Guest
Albert Camus

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1957

The Guest
Emma Cline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Guest List
Lucy Foley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Guitar
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1973

The Guncle
Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Guncle Abroad
Steven Rowley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962