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A Garden to Keep
Jamie Langston Turner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

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 1992

A Gift For Tenderness
Peggy Webb

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

A Good Man in Africa
William Boyd, William Boyd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2001

A Gracious Plenty
Sheri Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

Galatea 2.2
Richard Powers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Gallows Hill
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1998

Game (I Hunt Killers, #2)
Barry Lyga

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

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

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Garden of Beasts
Jeffery Deaver

Fiction | Novel | Adult

Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
Sarah Addison Allen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Genesis: A Story from Wolf Willow
Wallace Stegner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Gentlehands
M.E. Kerr

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Gentlemen and Players (Malbry, #1)
Joanne Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

George Eliot: A Life
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Get in Trouble
Kelly Link

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2015

Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghachar Ghochar
Srinath Perur, Vivek Shanbhag

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghana Must Go
Taiye Selasi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghetto Klown
Shamus Beyale, John Leguizamo, Christa Cassano, Lin-Manuel Miranda

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Ghost Canoe
Will Hobbs

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1998

Ghost Hawk
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2013

Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
Ryan Smithson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Ghost World
Daniel Clowes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Gilded Age
Claire Mcmillan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Ginger Pye (The Pyes, #1)
Eleanor Estes

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

Girl at War
Sara Nović, Sara Novic

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard, M.E. Girard

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao, Shobha Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea, Marilyn Booth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)
Amy Stewart, Amy Stewart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Girl Wash your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Give Me Liberty: An American Dream
Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Giving Up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Gladiator
Philip Wylie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Glass
Alex Christofi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Goddess of Yesterday
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1990

Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)
Robert B. Parker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Vea, Alfredo Véa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

God's Grace
Bernard Malamud, Dara Horn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Victoria Sweet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

God's Long Summer
Charles Marsh, Charles Marsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Adam Nicolson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume 1: The Poetry of Desire, 1749-1790
Nicholas Boyle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Going Bovine
Libba Bray

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2009

Gold
Chris Cleave

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Yiyun Li

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2010

Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia
James L. Watson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Golden Hill
Francis Spufford

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Gone (Jack Caffery, #5)
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Gone to Ground
Brandilyn Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Good as Gone
Amy Gentry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Good Me, Bad Me
Ali Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Good Neighbors
Ryan David Jahn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011