Here you’ll find 100 Books that start with G, organized from “Game of Thrones” to “Gödel, Escher, Bach”. These titles span fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary, and include bestsellers, prize winners and influential works. You can use this list for discovery, reference, curriculum planning, or SEO-driven content.
Books that start with G are titles whose main title begins with the letter G. Many well-known examples, like “Game of Thrones” and “Gödel, Escher, Bach”, influenced popular culture and scholarship.
Below you’ll find the table with Title, Author, Year, and Genre.
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Genre: Primary genre indicates subject and tone, letting you filter lists for teaching, reading lists, or library organization.
Books that start with G
| Title | Author(s) | Year (first publication) | Primary genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Literary fiction |
| Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | Literary fiction |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | Satirical fiction |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | Literary fiction |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | 2012 | Psychological thriller |
| Giver | Lois Lowry | 1993 | Young adult dystopian |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett | 1990 | Comic fantasy |
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | Literary fiction |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | 1997 | Non-fiction history |
| Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | 1996 | Epic fantasy |
| Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 2013 | Literary fiction |
| Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | 2005 | Crime fiction |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss | 1960 | Children’s literature |
| Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | 2008 | Young adult fantasy |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin | 1953 | Literary fiction |
| Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | 1995 | Young adult fantasy |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | 1947 | Children’s picture book |
| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | Literary fiction |
| Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin | 1956 | Literary fiction |
| Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein | 1964 | Children’s picture book |
| Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1973 | Non-fiction history |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | 1979 | Non-fiction science |
| Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | 1944 | Play |
| Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | 2019 | Literary fiction |
| Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | 1989 | Gothic fiction |
| Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | 1989 | Comic fantasy |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2019 | Science fantasy |
| Gunslinger | Stephen King | 1982 | Dark fantasy |
| Ghost World | Daniel Clowes | 1997 | Graphic novel |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | 1999 | Historical fiction |
| Germinal | Émile Zola | 1885 | Naturalist fiction |
| Golden Notebook | Doris Lessing | 1962 | Feminist fiction |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins | 2001 | Business |
| Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | Psychological thriller |
| Godfather | Mario Puzo | 1969 | Crime fiction |
| Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake | 1950 | Gothic fantasy |
| Gruffalo | Julia Donaldson | 1999 | Children’s picture book |
| Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | 2016 | Historical fiction |
| Girl Who Drank the Moon | Kelly Barnhill | 2016 | Young adult fantasy |
| George’s Marvellous Medicine | Roald Dahl | 1981 | Children’s fiction |
| Go, Dog. Go! | P.D. Eastman | 1961 | Children’s picture book |
| Getting to Yes | Roger Fisher; William L. Ury | 1981 | Non-fiction business |
| Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890 | Anthropology |
| Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1977 | Science fiction |
| Gigi | Colette | 1944 | Novella |
| Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 1915 | Modernist fiction |
| Girl in Translation | Jean Kwok | 2010 | Literary fiction |
| Gods of Jade and Shadow | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 2019 | Fantasy |
| Graceling | Kristin Cashore | 2008 | Young adult fantasy |
| Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer; Annie Barrows | 2008 | Historical fiction |
| Ghetto Cowboy | G. Neri | 2011 | Middle grade fiction |
| Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis | 1961 | Memoir |
| Ghosts | Raina Telgemeier | 2016 | Graphic novel |
| General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel García Márquez | 1989 | Historical fiction |
| Geography of Bliss | Eric Weiner | 2008 | Travel literature |
| Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 1973 | Postmodern fiction |
| Green Mile | Stephen King | 1996 | Serial novel |
| Grit | Angela Duckworth | 2016 | Non-fiction psychology |
| Goodnight Punpun | Inio Asano | 2007 | Manga |
| Garlic and Sapphires | Ruth Reichl | 2005 | Memoir |
| Glass Houses | Louise Penny | 2017 | Mystery |
| Gospel According to Jesus Christ | José Saramago | 1991 | Literary fiction |
| Golem and the Jinni | Helene Wecker | 2013 | Historical fantasy |
| Gilded Hour | Sara Donati | 2015 | Historical fiction |
| Gentle Ben | Walt Morey | 1965 | Children’s fiction |
| Grand Union | Zadie Smith | 2019 | Short story collection |
| Girls | Emma Cline | 2016 | Literary fiction |
| German Girl | Armando Lucas Correa | 2016 | Historical fiction |
| Gift from the Sea | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | 1955 | Memoir/Philosophy |
| Guest List | Lucy Fokley | 2020 | Mystery |
| Glass Castle | Jeannette Walls | 2005 | Memoir |
| Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World | Jack Weatherford | 2004 | Non-fiction history |
| Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | 2020 | Memoir |
| Ghost Map | Steven Johnson | 2006 | Non-fiction history |
| Going Postal | Terry Pratchett | 2004 | Comic fantasy |
| God in Ruins | Kate Atkinson | 2015 | Historical fiction |
| Gorillas in the Mist | Dian Fossey | 1983 | Memoir/Science |
| Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Giorgio Bassani | 1962 | Historical fiction |
| Ghost Bride | Yangsze Choo | 2013 | Historical fantasy |
| Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 1931 | Historical fiction |
| Good Man Is Hard to Find | Flannery O’Connor | 1955 | Short story collection |
| Gremlins | Roald Dahl | 1943 | Children’s fiction |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 1936 | Historical romance |
| Group | Christie Tate | 2020 | Memoir |
| Giant’s House | Elizabeth McCracken | 1996 | Literary fiction |
| Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1935 | Mystery |
| Golden Apples of the Sun | Ray Bradbury | 1953 | Short story collection |
| Gentlemen & Players | Joanne Harris | 2005 | Psychological thriller |
| Generation X | Douglas Coupland | 1991 | Fiction |
| Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | 1943 | Philosophical fiction |
| Gilded Wolves | Roshani Chokshi | 2019 | Young adult fantasy |
| Grand Sophy | Georgette Heyer | 1950 | Regency romance |
| Gardens of the Moon | Steven Erikson | 1999 | Epic fantasy |
| Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | 2014 | Fantasy |
| Golden Hill | Francis Spufford | 2016 | Historical fiction |
| Girl Who Fell from the Sky | Heidi W. Durrow | 2010 | Literary fiction |
| Grief Is the Thing with Feathers | Max Porter | 2015 | Experimental fiction |
| Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Daré | 2020 | Literary fiction |
| Get a Life, Chloe Brown | Talia Hibbert | 2019 | Contemporary romance |
| Gideon’s Trumpet | Anthony Lewis | 1964 | Non-fiction law |
Descriptions
Grapes of Wrath
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home during the Great Depression.
Great Gatsby
A quintessential Jazz Age novel that critiques the American Dream through the eyes of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.
Gulliver’s Travels
A classic of English literature that satirizes human nature and society through the fantastical voyages of Lemuel Gulliver.
Great Expectations
A celebrated bildungsroman following the orphan Pip, exploring themes of wealth, ambition, and social class in Victorian England.
Gone Girl
A hugely popular thriller that revitalized the genre with its unreliable narrators and shocking plot twists.
Giver
A Newbery Medal winner that introduces young readers to complex themes of conformity, memory, and individuality in a seemingly perfect society.
Good Omens
A beloved collaboration about an angel and a demon who team up to prevent the Apocalypse because they’ve grown fond of Earth.
God of Small Things
Winner of the Booker Prize, this novel is celebrated for its lyrical prose and poignant story of family secrets in Kerala, India.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book that explains global inequality through geographic and environmental factors rather than racial differences.
Game of Thrones
The first book in the massively popular *A Song of Ice and Fire* series, known for its complex characters and political intrigue.
Goldfinch
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows a young man’s life after he survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The first book in the Millennium series, a global phenomenon that introduced readers to hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
Green Eggs and Ham
An iconic beginner book written using only 50 distinct words, teaching children the joy of trying new things through persistent rhymes.
Graveyard Book
Winner of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, this book is a magical reimagining of *The Jungle Book* set in a cemetery.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
A semi-autobiographical novel exploring themes of race, religion, and family through the story of a teenager in 1930s Harlem.
Golden Compass
The first book in the *His Dark Materials* trilogy, a celebrated and complex fantasy that explores theology and physics.
Goodnight Moon
A classic bedtime story beloved by generations for its quiet, rhyming poetry and lulling rhythm in a great green room.
Gilead
A contemplative novel in the form of a letter from a dying minister to his young son. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Giovanni’s Room
A groundbreaking and poignant novel about an American man in Paris struggling with his identity and relationships.
Giving Tree
A simple, poignant, and widely debated story about a tree’s selfless love for a boy throughout his life.
Gulag Archipelago
A monumental and harrowing account of the Soviet forced labor camp system, based on witness testimony and the author’s own experience.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
A Pulitzer Prize-winning book exploring consciousness and meaning through the interwoven concepts of mathematics, art, and music.
Glass Menagerie
A classic American “memory play” that launched Williams to fame, exploring the fragile lives and dreams of the Wingfield family.
Girl, Woman, Other
A novel following the lives of twelve interconnected characters, mostly Black British women. Co-winner of the Booker Prize.
Geek Love
A cult classic novel about a family of carnival freaks, exploring themes of normality, family, and power. A National Book Award finalist.
Guards! Guards!
The eighth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, a fan-favorite subseries about unlikely heroes.
Gideon the Ninth
The first book in The Locked Tomb series, a wildly original blend of sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery featuring lesbian necromancers in space.
Gunslinger
The first installment of King’s epic *The Dark Tower* series, introducing Roland of Gilead on his quest for the Man in Black.
Ghost World
An acclaimed comic about the cynical friendship of two teenage girls after high school, later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A bestselling novel that imagines the story behind Johannes Vermeer’s famous and enigmatic painting of the same name.
Germinal
A harsh and realistic novel about a coal miners’ strike in 19th-century France, a classic of the naturalist literary movement.
Golden Notebook
A landmark of feminist literature, known for its innovative structure and its frank exploration of women’s intellectual and sexual lives.
Good to Great
An influential business book that examines how good companies can become great companies through disciplined management.
Girl on the Train
A massively successful debut thriller that helped popularize the “unreliable female narrator” trope in modern fiction.
Godfather
The landmark novel about the Corleone crime family that became a cultural phenomenon and spawned iconic films.
Gormenghast
The second book in the Gormenghast series, renowned for its gothic atmosphere, imaginative world-building, and vivid characterization.
Gruffalo
A modern classic about a clever mouse who invents a monster to scare away predators, only to meet his creation.
Gentleman in Moscow
A bestselling novel about a Russian aristocrat sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Girl Who Drank the Moon
Winner of the Newbery Medal, this is a beautifully written fairy tale about a kind witch and a girl raised on moonlight.
George’s Marvellous Medicine
A classic Dahl story about a boy who creates a magical, and chaotic, medicine for his cantankerous grandmother.
Go, Dog. Go!
A simple and beloved Beginner Book that teaches concepts like color and prepositions through illustrations of dogs on the move.
Getting to Yes
A foundational book on negotiation, outlining the principles of “principled negotiation” from the Harvard Negotiation Project.
Golden Bough
A wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion that was highly influential in early anthropology and literature.
Gateway
A classic novel that won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, about prospecting on a mysterious alien space station.
Gigi
A novella by the French author Colette about a young Parisian girl being groomed as a courtesan, famously adapted into a musical film.
Good Soldier
A novel renowned for its use of an unreliable narrator and complex flashbacks to tell a story of passion and deceit among two couples.
Girl in Translation
A semi-autobiographical novel about a young Chinese immigrant’s double life between a sweatshop and a prestigious school.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
A novel set in the Jazz Age, blending Mexican folklore and mythology with a historical fantasy adventure across Mexico.
Graceling
The first book in the Graceling Realm series, featuring a heroine with a “Grace,” or special talent, for killing.
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
An epistolary novel set during the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II, celebrating books and human connection.
Ghetto Cowboy
An award-winning novel about a troubled teen who discovers the world of urban African-American cowboys in Philadelphia.
Grief Observed
A powerful and honest reflection on grief and faith written by Lewis after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman.
Ghosts
A popular and touching middle-grade graphic novel about two sisters who move to a town where ghosts are real.
General in His Labyrinth
A fictionalized account of the final days of Simón Bolívar, the “Liberator” of South America, by the Nobel laureate.
Geography of Bliss
A humorous and insightful journey around the world to discover what makes different cultures happy, from Iceland to Qatar.
Gravity’s Rainbow
A notoriously complex and sprawling novel set in Europe at the end of WWII. Winner of the National Book Award.
Green Mile
Originally published in six installments, this Depression-era story is set on death row in a Southern prison.
Grit
A bestseller that argues that success is a result of passion and perseverance, rather than just innate talent.
Goodnight Punpun
A critically acclaimed and often harrowing coming-of-age manga series known for its surrealism and emotional depth.
Garlic and Sapphires
A food writer and restaurant critic’s memoir about going undercover in various disguises to review New York’s finest restaurants.
Glass Houses
The thirteenth book in the popular Chief Inspector Gamache series, dealing with a mysterious figure in Three Pines.
Gospel According to Jesus Christ
A controversial but acclaimed novel by the Nobel laureate that retells the life of Jesus from a human perspective.
Golem and the Jinni
A debut novel about two mythical creatures, a golem and a jinni, who meet and form a bond in 19th-century New York City.
Gilded Hour
The first in a series about two female physicians in 1880s New York, exploring medicine, race, and social justice.
Gentle Ben
A classic children’s story about the friendship between a boy and a large brown bear in Alaska, which won a Dutton Animal Book Award.
Grand Union
The first short story collection from the acclaimed author of *White Teeth*, exploring a range of contemporary themes with wit and insight.
Girls
A bestselling debut novel inspired by the Manson Family cult, exploring female friendship and vulnerability in 1960s California.
German Girl
A novel inspired by the true story of the S.S. St. Louis, a ship of Jewish refugees denied entry to Cuba and the US in 1939.
Gift from the Sea
A meditative book written by the author while on vacation, using seashells as metaphors for stages of life and relationships.
Guest List
A modern whodunit in the style of Agatha Christie, set at a wedding on a remote Irish island where someone turns up dead.
Glass Castle
A bestselling memoir about the author’s unconventional and impoverished upbringing with her deeply dysfunctional but vibrant parents.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
A popular history that reframes Genghis Khan not just as a conqueror, but as a key figure in global civilization.
Greenlights
A best-selling, unconventional memoir from the Academy Award-winning actor, based on his personal diaries and life lessons.
Ghost Map
The story of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak and how Dr. John Snow’s investigation revolutionized science and city life.
Going Postal
A standalone Discworld novel introducing con man Moist von Lipwig, tasked with reviving the Ankh-Morpork Post Office.
God in Ruins
A companion novel to *Life After Life*, this book follows the life of Teddy Todd as a WWII bomber pilot and beyond.
Gorillas in the Mist
The memoir of primatologist Dian Fossey’s thirteen years studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda, a seminal work in conservation.
Garden of the Finzi-Continis
A poignant Italian novel about an aristocratic Jewish family in Ferrara during the rise of Mussolini and fascism.
Ghost Bride
A novel set in colonial Malacca, where a young woman receives a proposal to marry the ghost of a wealthy family’s dead son.
Good Earth
A classic novel that depicts family life in a Chinese village before World War I. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Good Man Is Hard to Find
A landmark collection of Southern Gothic stories, with the title story being one of the most famous in American literature.
Gremlins
Dahl’s first children’s book, written for Walt Disney Productions, about mischievous creatures that cause mechanical trouble on airplanes.
Gone with the Wind
An epic romance set during the American Civil War. One of the best-selling books of all time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Group
A memoir about the author’s experiences in group therapy and her journey toward connection and self-acceptance.
Giant’s House
A National Book Award finalist about a lonely librarian who falls in love with an unusually tall young man in a small town.
Gaudy Night
A Lord Peter Wimsey detective novel set in an all-female college at Oxford, exploring themes of love and intellectual life for women.
Golden Apples of the Sun
A classic collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories from a master of the genre, including the famous “A Sound of Thunder.”
Gentlemen & Players
A thriller set in a stuffy English grammar school, told from two alternating and mysterious perspectives that converge in a shocking climax.
Generation X
The novel that popularized the term “Generation X,” capturing the angst and irony of post-baby-boomer youth through a series of vignettes.
Glass Bead Game
The final novel of Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse, a complex story set in a future utopian province for intellectuals.
Gilded Wolves
The first in a series set in 1889 Paris, featuring a team of diverse treasure hunters with magical abilities.
Grand Sophy
One of Heyer’s most beloved and humorous novels, featuring a witty and resourceful heroine who upends her relatives’ lives.
Gardens of the Moon
The first book in the sprawling, complex, and highly acclaimed ten-volume series, *Malazan Book of the Fallen*.
Goblin Emperor
A standalone fantasy novel about a half-goblin heir who unexpectedly ascends to the elven throne and must navigate court intrigue.
Golden Hill
An award-winning novel about a mysterious young man who arrives in 1746 New York with a large sum of money.
Girl Who Fell from the Sky
An award-winning debut novel about a girl, the daughter of a Danish mother and a Black GI, who survives a family tragedy.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
A highly original novella blending prose and poetry to tell the story of a father and his sons mourning the death of their mother.
Girl with the Louding Voice
A powerful debut novel about a Nigerian girl named Adunni who fights for an education and her own “louding voice.”
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
A popular and witty romance novel about a chronically ill woman who creates a bucket list to help her “get a life.”
Gideon’s Trumpet
A classic non-fiction account of the landmark 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to an attorney.