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Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Grant
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Granted
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Grass
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Graveyard Blues
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Gray After Dark
Noelle W. Ihli

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Greasy Lake
T.C. Boyle

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1985

Great and Precious Things
Rebecca Yarros

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Greater Love
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1861

Greenglass House
Kate Milford

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Green Grass, Running Water
Thomas King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Greenwich Park
Katherine Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Greenwild
Pari Thomson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Greenwood
Michael Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Greetings From Witness Protection!
Jake Burt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Gregor the Overlander
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Grenade
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Grendel
John Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

Gretel in Darkness
Louise Glück

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Gris Grimly's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2007

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1785

Ground Zero
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Christie Tate

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Growing Up
Russell Baker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Grown
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

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

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Robert N. Bellah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Hachiko Waits
Leslea Newman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Hadji Murat
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Half a Day
Naguib Mahfouz

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1991

Half Bad
Sally Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Half-Blood
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2024

Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Half Brother
Kenneth Oppel

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Half Magic
N. M. Bodecker, Edward Eager

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1954

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Hamilton: The Revolution
Jeremy McCarter, Lin Manuel Miranda

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982

Hana's Suitcase
Karen Levine

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Handle With Care
Jodi Picoult

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Hands
Sherwood Anderson

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1919

Hanging Fire
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Hang the Moon
Jeannette Walls

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Hannah Coulter
Wendell Berry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Hannibal
Thomas Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Happiness Falls
Angie Kim

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Happy Endings
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983

Happy Land
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Happy Place
Emily Henry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Harbor Me
Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Hard Times
Charles Dickens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1854

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Studs Terkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1970

Harlem
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Harlem Duet
Djanet Sears

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Harlem Rhapsody
Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1964

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Ann Petry

Nonfiction | Biography | Middle Grade | Published in 1955

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Bob the Drag Queen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1960

Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1998

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Jack Thorne, J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany

Fiction | Play | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hatchet
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1987

Hate List
Jennifer Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009