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Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Frenchman's Creek
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

Freshwater Road
Denise Nicholas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Frog Music
Emma Donoghue

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

From a Buick 8
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

From a Distance
Tamera Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

From Here to Eternity
James Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1951

From Lukov with Love
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

From Russia, With Love
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1957

From Sleep Unbound
Andree Chedid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1983

From the Deep Woods to Civilization
Charles Alexander Eastman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1916

From the Dust Returned
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Funny Girl
Nick Hornby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Furious Love
Sam Kashner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Future Boy
Michael J. Fox, Nelle Fortenberry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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

Gallows Hill
Darcy Coates

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Game
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
Eric Berne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

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

Gardens in the Dunes
Leslie Marmon Silko

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

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
Jack Dann, ed., Dennis Etchison, ed., Ramsey Campbell, 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

Generations
William Strauss, Neil Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Genesis
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1971

Genome
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
Dane C. Ortlund

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Gentlemen and Players
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady
Anita Loos

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

Genuine Fraud
E. Lockhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

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 Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
Jennie Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Get The Guy: How to Find, Attract, and Keep Your Ideal Mate
Matthew Hussey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations
William Ury

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

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 Greenglass House
Kate Milford

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

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 Town at Sundown
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1997

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, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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 Me More
Sara Cate

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

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
NoViolet Bulawayo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1963

Gloves Off
Stephanie Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

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