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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Good to Great
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness
Vex King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Gooseberries
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1898

Gorgias
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Go Set A Watchman
Harper Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gospel of John
John the Apostle

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 90

Gossamer
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gothikana
RuNyx

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Elinor Ostrom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Go, Went, Gone
Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gracefully Grayson
Ami Polonsky

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

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

Gray Mountain
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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

Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Max Porter

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Guess Again
Charlie Donlea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

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 His Age
Jennette McCurdy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

Half Magic
Edward Eager, N. M. Bodecker

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
Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

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

Hands
Torrey Maldonado

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

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

Happy Wife
Meredith Lavender, Kendall Shores

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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