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A Garden to Keep
Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Gathering of Days
Joan W. Blos

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Gift for Tenderness
Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

A Gracious Plenty
Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Graveyard for Lunatics
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA

A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult

A Great Leap Forward
Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Gallows Hill
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA

Game
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Games at Twilight
Anita Desai

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Garbage Land
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Garden of Beasts
Jeffery Deaver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Gathering the Bones
Jack Dann, ed., Dennis Etchison, ed., Ramsey Campbell, ed.

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Genesis
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | YA

Gentlemen and Players
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | YA

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

George Washington, Spymaster
Thomas B. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade

George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Get in Trouble
Kelly Link

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novella | Adult

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ghetto Klown
John Leguizamo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ghosted
Rosie Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult

Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ghosts of War
Ryan Smithson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA

Ghost Wars
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Gilded Age
Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade

Girl at War
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard

Fiction | Novel | YA

Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girl Waits with Gun
Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Give and Take
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Give Me Liberty
Frank Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult

Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Give Us This Day
Helena Wisniewska Brow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Gladiator
Philip Wylie

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Glass
Alex Christofi

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

Glory Over Everything
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Go Ask Alice
Beatrice Sparks

Fiction | Novel | YA

Goddess Of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA

Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult

Go Down Together
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Gods and Generals
Jeffrey Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult

God Save the Child
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Vea

Fiction | Novel | Adult

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult

God's Hotel
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult

God's Long Summer
Charles Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

God's Secretaries
Adam Nicolson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult

Goethe: The Poet and the Age
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult

Going Bovine
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA

Going Clear
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Gold
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Gold Boy Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult