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A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Gesture Life
Chang-rae Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

A Glimpse
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

A Good Kind of Trouble
Lisa Moore Ramée

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1955

A Good Neighborhood
Therese Anne Fowler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Grain of Wheat
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

A Great Need
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

Galatea
Madeline Miller

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

Gallant
V. E. Schwab

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Game Changer
Tommy Greenwald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Game Changer
Neal Shusterman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Games at Twilight
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Gang Leader For a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair
Edward Humes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gargantua And Pantagruel
François Rabelais, Transl. Thomas Urquhart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1564

Gate A-4
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2008

Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1935

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Generations of Captivity
Ira Berlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

George
Alex Gino

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

George Gray
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

George's Marvelous Medicine
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel
Américo Paredes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

George Washington's Farewell Address
George Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1796

George Washington's Socks
Elvira Woodruff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Gerald's Game
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

Germinal
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William Ury

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

Ghettoside
Jill Leovy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ghost
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body (2011)
Martin Pistorius

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosted
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1881

Ghosts
Dolly Alderton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Mark Harmon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Ghost Squad
Claribel A. Ortega

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Ghost Story
Peter Straub

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Gideon’s Trumpet
Anthony Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Gift From The Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1955

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence
Gene A. Brucker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1956

Girl
Jamaica Kincaid

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Girl In Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Girl in the Blue Coat
Monica Hesse

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girl In Translation
Jean Kwok

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Girls Like Us: Fighting For a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale
Rachel Lloyd

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Girl, Stolen
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Girl With a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775

Glass Sword
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Beverly Gage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Go as a River: A Novel
Shelley Read

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1862

Go Carolina
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2000

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

God Grew Tired of Us
John Bul Dau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

God Help The Child
Toni Morrison

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

God's Bits Of Wood
Ousmane Sembène

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

God Sees the Truth, but Waits
Leo Tolstoy

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1872

God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

Gods of Jade and Shadow
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1978

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023