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Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Goldfinger
Ian Fleming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Gold Rush Girl
Avi

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Goliath
Keith Thompson, Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Goliath (Leviathan, #3)
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Gone
Mo Hayder

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake, #1)
Elizabeth Enright

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
Dennis Lehane

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Gone for Good
Harlan Coben

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gone, Gone, Gone
Hannah Moskowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Gone Missing
Linda Castillo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Gone Missing in Harlem
Karla F.C. Holloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gone to Ground
Brandilyn Collins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Gone Tonight
Sarah Pekkanen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1936

Good As Gone
Amy Gentry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good Bad Girl: A Novel
Alice Feeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Good Boy
Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Goodbye Days
Jeff Zentner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Good-bye Marianne
Irene N. Watts

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
James Hilton

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1934

Goodbye, Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #4)
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Goodbye Stranger
Rebecca Stead

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Goodbye to All That
Robert Graves

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1929

Goodbye To Berlin
Christopher Isherwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Goodbye Tsugumi
Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Goodbye, Vietnam
Gloria Whelan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Goodbye, Vitamin
Rachel Khong

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong
Susan Blumberg-Kason

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Good Company
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Good Dog
Dan Gemeinhart

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole
Hans-Olav Thyvold

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Good Enough
Paula Yoo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Good Girl, Bad Blood
Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Good Girl, Bad Girl
Michael Robotham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Good Girl Complex
Elle Kennedy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Good Girls Lie
J.T. Ellison

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Good Grief
Lolly Winston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Good Hair
Benilde Little

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Good in Bed
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Good Kings Bad Kings
Susan Nussbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Good Luck with That
Kristan Higgins

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Good Material
Dolly Alderton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Good Me, Bad Me
Ali Land

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Good Morning, Midnight
Lily Brooks-Dalton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Good Neighbors
Sarah Langan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Goodnight!
Andrei Sinyavsky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1960

Goodnight Beautiful
Aimee Molloy

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Goodnight From Paris
Jane Healey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Good Night, Irene
Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Goodnight, Irene (Irene Kelly #1)
Jan Burke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Goodnight Mister Tom
Michelle Magorian

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1981

Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown

Fiction | Picture Book | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1947

Goodnight Nobody
Jennifer Weiner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Good Oil
Laura Buzo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Good People
Marcus Sakey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Good to a Fault
Marina Endicott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Good to Great
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Good Wives
Louisa May Alcott

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2004

Gooney Bird and the Room Mother
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Gooney Bird on the Map (Gooney Bird Greene, 5)
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Gooseberry Park (Gooseberry Park, #1)
Cynthia Rylant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Gorboduc
Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Gorgias
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Gorilla, My Love
Toni Cade Bambara

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1972

Gorillas in the Mist
Dian Fossey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
Mervyn Peake

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Go Set A Watchman
Harper Lee

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Gosford Park: The Shooting Script
Julian Fellowes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Gospel of John
John the Apostle

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 90

Gossamer
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse (Goth Girl, #1)
Chris Riddell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Gothikana
RuNyx

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Richard Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Gourmet Rhapsody
Muriel Barbery

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Go, Went, Gone
Jenny Erpenbeck

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Grace
Paul Lynch

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Grace and Glory
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021