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The Galton Case (1959) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915 -07/11/1983)  (Grade:A)

The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset (1994) - Geoffrey Douglas (-)  (Grade:A)

The Game of Thirty (1994) - William Kotzwinkle (1938-)  (Grade:B)

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae (1998) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)  (Grade:A+)

Emperor: The Gates of Rome (2003) - Conn Iggulden (1971-)  (Grade:A+)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) (2007) - Simon Armitage (05/26/1963 -)  (Grade:A+)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)  (Grade:F)

The General's Daughter (1992) - Nelson DeMille (-)  (Grade:B-)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) - Anita Loos (1893-1981)  (Grade:A)

The Geometry of Love : Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (2001) - Margaret Visser (-)  (Grade:C)

George Shrinks (1985) - William Joyce (1957-)  (Grade:A)

Ghost Image (2002) - Joshua Gilder (-)  (Grade:B)

The Ghost Road (1995) - Pat Barker (1943-)  (Grade:F)

Ghosts on the Roof : Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers 1931-1959 (1989) - Whittaker Chambers (4/01/1901 -7/09/1961)  (Grade:A)

The Giant's House: A Romance (1996) - Elizabeth McCracken (1966 -)  (Grade:C-)

Gift from the Sea (1955) - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-)  (Grade:A+)

The Gift of the Magi () - O. Henry (1862 -1910)  (Grade:A+)

The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998) - Thomas Cahill (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Gilded Chamber: A Tale of Queen Esther (2004) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-)  (Grade:A)

The Ginger Man (1955) - JP Donleavy (-)  (Grade:D)

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:B)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) - Stieg Larsson (08/15/1954-11/09/2004)  (Grade:C)

The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1834) - Honore de Balzac (05/20/1799 -08/18/1850)  (Grade:B)

A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy (2007) - Charlotte Greig (1954-)  (Grade:C+)

The Giver (1993) - Lois Lowry (3/20/1937 -)  (Grade:A+)

The Giving Tree (1964) - Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)  (Grade:A+)

A Glass Half Full (2002) - Felix Dennis (1947-)  (Grade:B)

The Glass Room (2009) - Simon Mawer (1948-)  (Grade:C+)

The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It (1966) - Lawrence S. Ritter (1922-)  (Grade:A+)

The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle (2002) - Robert Anasi (1966-)  (Grade:A)

Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) - James Baldwin (1922-1987)  (Grade:B)

The Goblin Emperor (2014) - Katherine Addison (-)  (Grade:A)

The God of Small Things (1997) - Arundhati Roy (1961-)  (Grade:C)

The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Godfather (1969) - Mario Gianluigi Puzo (10/15/20 -07/02/99)  (Grade:B+)

Godiva and the Golden Dragon (2001) - Steven James (-)  (Grade:A-)

The Gods Will Have Blood [Les dieux ont soif] (1912) - Anatole France (04/16/1844-10/12/1924)  (Grade:C+)

Gold from Gemini (1978) - Jonathan Gash (09/30/1933-)  (Grade:A)

Gold: Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter (1925) - Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961)  (Grade:C+)

The Golden Bowl, or actually,The Turn of the Screw (in lieu of The Golden Bowl) () - Henry James (4/15/1843 -2/28/1916)  (Grade:B)

The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (2004) - Kevin Nelson (1953-)  (Grade:B+)

The Golden Notebook (1962) - Doris Lessing (-)  (Grade:F)

The Golden Warrior: the Story of Harold and William (1949) - Hope Muntz (08/08/1907 -1981)  (Grade:A+)

Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague () - Chayim Bloch (06/26/1881 -01/23/1973)  (Grade:B+)

Gone Fishin': An Easy Rawlins Mystery (1997) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952 -)  (Grade:B)

The Good German (2001) - Joseph Kanon (-)  (Grade:C)

The Good Soldier (1915) - Ford Maddox Ford (12/17/1873 -6/26/1939)  (Grade:B-)

A Good Walk Spoiled : Days and Nights on the PGA Tour (1995) - John Feinstein (-)  (Grade:C)

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) - Robert Graves (1895-1985)  (Grade:C-)

Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (1934) - James Hilton (9/09/1900 -12/20/1954)  (Grade:A+)

Goodey's Last Stand (1975) - Charles Alverson (10/13/1935-)  (Grade:B)

The Gormenghast Novels : Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959) (1959) - Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 -1968)  (Grade:B+)

The Graduate (1963) - Charles Richard Webb (6/09/1939 -6/16/2020)  (Grade:C-)

The Grand Complication (2001) - Allen Kurzweil (1960-)  (Grade:C)

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck (2/27/1902 -12/20/1968)  (Grade:A-)

Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille (1949) - Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1905 -10/18/1970)  (Grade:B+)

Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World (1996) - David Denby (-)  (Grade:C+)

The Great Bridge : The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (1972) - David McCullough (7/07/1933 -8/07/2022)  (Grade:A+)

A Great Deliverance: an Inspector Lynley Mystery (1988) - Susan Elizabeth George (02/26/1949-)  (Grade:A-)

Great Expectations (1860-61) - Charles Dickens (2/07/1812 -6/09/1870)  (Grade:A+)

The Great Fat Fraud: Why the "Obesity Epidemic" Isn't, How to Be Totally Healthy without Losing Weight and If You Should Lose Some Pounds, How to Keep Them from Finding You Again (2011) - Mike Schatzki (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald (9/24/1896 -12/21/1940)  (Grade:B)

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2004) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of '78 (2008) - Richard Bradley (-)  (Grade:B+)

The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf (2002) - Mark Frost (11/25/1953-)  (Grade:A+)

The Greatest Generation (1999) - Tom Brokaw (-)  (Grade:D+)

The Greatest Gift: The Original Story That Inspired the Christmas Classic It's a Wonderful Life (1943) - Philip Van Doren Stern (9/10/1900 -7/31/1984)  (Grade:B)

The Green Mile (1997) - Stephen King (09/21/1947 -)  (Grade:A-)

Grendel (1971) - John Gardner (1933 -1982)  (Grade:B)

A Grief Observed (1961) - C.S. Lewis (11/29/1898 -11/22/1963)  (Grade:A)

The Grifters (1964) - Jim Thompson (1906-1977)  (Grade:A)

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (2016) - Angela Lee Duckworth (1970 -)  (Grade:B)

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (2016) - Lee Siegel (1957-)  (Grade:B)

Growing Up (1982) - Russell Baker (1925-)  (Grade:A)

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History (2001) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:A)

Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint (2007) - Bill Yenne (-)  (Grade:B)

Gulag: A History (2003) - Anne Applebaum (-)  (Grade:A+)

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 : An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume I) (1973) - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (12/11/1918 -8/03/2008)  (Grade:A+)

Gunnar's Daughter [Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis] (1909) - Sigrid Undset (05/20/1882 -06/10/1949)  (Grade:A)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) - Jared Diamond (1937-)  (Grade:C+)