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The Girl Next Door
Jack Ketchum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Girls
Lori Lansens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girls Before
Kate Alice Marshall

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girls I've Been
Tess Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Girl Who Fell into the Sky
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1974

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Girl Who Played Go
Shan Sa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Jonas Jonasson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl With Ice in Her Veins
Karin Smirnoff, Transl. Sarah Death

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
Angela Slatter

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Given Day
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1964

The Glamour
Christopher Priest

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
Odd Arne Westad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Glorians
Terry Tempest Williams

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Godfather Returns
Mark Winegardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The God of Animals
Aryn Kyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gods of New York
Jonathan Mahler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1972

The Gods Will Have Blood
Anatole France

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1912

The Gold Bug Variations
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Golden Age
Gore Vidal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950

The Golden Boy
Patricia Finn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Golden Doves
Martha Hall Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Golden Enclaves
Naomi Novik

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Padraic Colum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1918

The Golden Gate
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

The Golden Hour
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Golden House
Salman Rushdie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Golden Legend
Nadeem Aslam

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Golden Mean
Annabel Lyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

The Golden Spruce
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

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 Graduation of Jake Moon
Barbara Park

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

The Grand Design
Donald Stoker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George Washington Cable

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1880

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 Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
John “Chick” Donohue, J. T. Molloy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

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 Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
Paul Theroux

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Great Reset
Alex Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Great Reset
Glenn Beck, Justin Trask Haskins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

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