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The Golden Touch
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1851

The Gone World
Tom Sweterlitsch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Good Book of Human Nature
Carel Van Schaik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Good Daughters
Joyce Maynard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Good Good Pig
Sy Montgomery

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Good House
Ann Leary

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Good House
Tananarive Due

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Good Husband
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

The Good Left Undone
Adriana Trigiani

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Good Liar
Denise Mina

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Good Life: Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Robert Waldinger, Marc Schulz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Good People
Hannah Kent

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hašek

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1923

The Goose Girl
Shannon Hale

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
José Saramago

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Gospel According to Larry
Janet Tashjian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Gospel of Judas
Simon Mawer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Graduate
Charles Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Grand Design
Donald Stoker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Grass Harp
Truman Capote

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

The Grave
James Heneghan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1995

The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gray Man
Mark Greaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Linda Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Great Bridge
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease-And the Statin-Free Plan That Will
Jonny Bowden, Stephen Sinatra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Great Contradiction
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Great Depression
Pierre Berton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Great Depression
Robert S. Mcelvaine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Jake Bittle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Great Divergence
Kenneth Pomeranz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Great Escape
Angus Deaton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Greatest Story Ever Told
Bear Grylls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Great God Brown
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1926

The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Great Leveler
Walter Scheidel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Great Mann
Kyra Davis Lurie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Great Mortality
John Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Wide Sea
M. H. Herlong

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Greek Way
Edith Hamilton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1930

The Green Road
Anne Enright

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Grey King
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1975

The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Clay Cane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

The Grim Grotto
Lemony Snicket

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

The Grimm Legacy
Polly Shulman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

The Group
Mary Mccarthy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

The Guardian
Dee Henderson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Guardian
Nicholas Sparks

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Guardians
John Christopher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1970

The Guest Book
Sarah Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Guide
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The Guide
Peter Heller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Guy You Loved to Hate
Spencer Pratt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026