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The Forget-Me-Not Library
Heather Webber

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Forgetting Time
Sharon Guskin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Forgotten
Elie Wiesel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Forgotten Book Club
Kate Storey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

The Forgotten Man
Robert Crais

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Jennifer 8. Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Fox
Frederick Forsyth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1971

The Freedom Summer Murders
Don Mitchell

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2014

The Free World
David Bezmozgis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Friendship
Mildred D. Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

The Furies
Suzy Mckee Charnas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Future of the Mind
Michio Kaku

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Future of Us
Carolyn Mackler, Jay Asher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Future Saints
Ashley Winstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

The Game of Love and Chance
Pierre Marivaux

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1730

The Game of Love and Death
Martha Brockenbrough

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

The Game of My Life
Jason J-Mac Mcelwain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold
Jeanette Winterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Gargoyle
Andrew Davidson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Gate of Angels
Penelope Fitzgerald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

The Gate to Women's Country
Sheri S. Tepper

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

The Geography of Genius
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Geography of Thought
Richard E. Nisbett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Geography of You and Me
Jennifer E. Smith

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The German War: A Nation Under Arms
Nicholas Stargardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ghost of Graylock
Dan Poblocki

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Ghost Road
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ghost Sonata
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Gilded Years
Karin Tanabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Girl From Everywhere
Heidi Heilig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl in the Red Coat
Kate Hamer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Girls
Lori Lansens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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 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 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 Bead Game
Hermann Hesse

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Glorious Cause
Robert Middlekauff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Goal
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

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 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 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 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 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 Husband
Gail Godwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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 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 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 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 Mortality
John Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Great Santini
Pat Conroy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

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