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A Garden to Keep
Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

A Gathering of Old Men
Ernest J. Gaines

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

A Gift for Tenderness
Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Girl of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1909

A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

A Gracious Plenty
Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

A Graveyard for Lunatics
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

A Great Leap Forward
Alexander J. Field

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Gallows Hill
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Game
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Garbage Land
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Garden of Beasts
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Garden Spells
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

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

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Genesis
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Gentlemen and Players
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

George Washington, Spymaster
Thomas B. Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Get in Trouble
Kelly Link

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2015

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghetto Klown
John Leguizamo

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghosts of War
Ryan Smithson

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2009

Ghost Wars
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Giants in the Earth
Ole Edvard Rölvaag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

Gil Blas
Alain Rene Lesage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1715

Gilded Age
Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1957

Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1951

Girl at War
Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Girl Waits with Gun
Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Give Me Liberty
Frank Miller

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Give Us This Day
Helena Wisniewska Brow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Gladiator
Philip Wylie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1930

Glass
Alex Christofi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Glory Over Everything
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Goddess Of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1942

Go Down Together
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Gods and Generals
Jeffrey Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

God Save the Child
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Vea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1965

God's Hotel
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

God's Long Summer
Charles Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

God's Secretaries
Adam Nicolson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

Goethe: The Poet and the Age
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Going Bovine
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Going Clear
Lawrence Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Gold
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gold Boy Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Golden Arches East
James L. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1937

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York
Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Golden Son
Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Gone
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Gone to Ground
Brandilyn Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Good As Gone
Amy Gentry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good in Bed
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Good Me, Bad Me
Ali Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017