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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 Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Fiction | Novel | 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 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

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 War”: An Oral History of World War II
Studs Terkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

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