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The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Genius Plague
David Walton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Margareta Magnusson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Geography of Bliss
Eric Weiner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

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 Bride
Joanna Hershon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The German Girl
Armando Lucas Correa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The German Ideology
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1932

The German Midwife
Mandy Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The German War: A Nation Under Arms
Nicholas Stargardt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The German Wife
Kelly Rimmer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Getaway
Jeff Kinney

Fiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Published in 2017

The Getaway Girls
Dee MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel Richardson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

The Ghost
Robert Harris

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Josephine Leslie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Ghost Belonged to Me (Blossom Culp, #1)
Richard Peck

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Ghost Bride
Yangsze Choo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Ghost Fields
Elly Griffiths

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Ghost Hunters (The Ghost Hunters #1)
Neil Spring

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Ghost in the Machine
Arthur Koestler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

The Ghost In The Tokaido Inn
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

The Ghost of Christmas (Ava James FBI, #6)
A.J. Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Ghost of Graylock
Dan Poblocki

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Penelope Lively

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Ghost Orchid
Carol Goodman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Ghost Road
Pat Barker

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ghosts
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 1904

The Ghost-seer (Hesperus Classics)
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Ghost Sonata
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Ghostway (Leaphorn & Chee, #6)
Tony Hillerman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The Ghostwriter
A.R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Ghost Writer
Philip Roth

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Giant's House
Elizabeth McCracken

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Gift
Danielle Steel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

The Gifted School
Bruce Holsinger

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Gift of Rain
Tan Twan Eng

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Gigantic Beard that Was Evil
Stephen Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1873

The Gilded Hour (The Waverly Place, #1)
Sara Donati

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1)
Roshani Chokshi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Gilded Years
Karin Tanabe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1955

The Ginger Tree
Oswald Wynd

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Gioconda Smile
Aldous Huxley

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Roald Dahl, Illustr. Quentin Blake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1985

The Girl Before
JP Delaney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl Beneath the Sea
Andrew Mayne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girlfriend
Michelle Frances

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Girl From Everywhere
Heidi Heilig

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl from Montana
Grace Livingston Hill

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Girl from the Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Girl from Venice
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl from Widow Hills
Megan Miranda

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl He Used to Know
Tracey Garvis Graves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl in 6E
A.R. Torre

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl in Cabin 13 (Emma Griffin FBI Mystery, #1)
A.J. Rivers

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Girl in His Shadow
Audrey Blake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Girl in Red
Christina Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

The Girl in the Garden
Kamala Nair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Girl in the Ice
Robert Bryndza

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Girl in the Mirror
Rose Carlyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Girl in the Red Coat
Kate Hamer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl in the Road
Monica Byrne

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl in the Spider's Web
David Lagercrantz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girl in the Steel Corset
Kady Cross

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

The Girl I Used to Be
April Henry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl Next Door
Jack Ketchum

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Rae Carson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

The Girl of Ink and Stars
Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

The Girl on the Cliff
Lucinda Riley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Girls
Lori Lansens

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
Genevieve Valentine

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
Jeffrey Zaslow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Girls from Corona del Mar
Rufi Thorpe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

The Girls He Adored
Jonathan Nasaw

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Girls in the Picture
Melanie Benjamin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Girls I've Been
Tess Sharpe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Girls of Atomic City
Denise Kiernan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013