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Gotham City Sirens
Gotham City Sirens is a DC Comics title and the name for the trio of Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. Launched by Paul Dini in 2009 (26 issues, ended with the New 52), revived as a 2024 Leah Williams miniseries, and attached to an unproduced David Ayer film.
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, also called Gothic horror, is a literary genre blending horror, romance, and the supernatural, beginning in eighteenth-century England with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.
Gothic short story
A Gothic short story is short fiction applying Gothic conventions such as haunted settings, inherited secrets, and psychological terror within the compressed short-story form, from Poe to Angela Carter.
Gould's Book of Fish
Gould's Book of Fish is a 2001 novel by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan, written as the autobiography of convict painter William Buelow Gould and set on Sarah Island, Tasmania.
Gozan literature
Gozan literature (五山文学, Gozan bungaku) is the Chinese-language poetry and prose written by Zen monks of Japan's Kyoto and Kamakura Five Mountains temples, chiefly from the late 13th to the 17th centuries.
Gracias por el fuego
Gracias por el fuego is a 1965 novel by the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti about Ramón Budiño, a middle-class Montevidean in conflict with his powerful father.
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Grand Admiral Thrawn (Mitth'raw'nuruodo) is a Chiss Imperial strategist created by Timothy Zahn in Heir to the Empire (1991), later canonized in Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka, played by Lars Mikkelsen.
Grande Sertão: Veredas
Grande Sertão: Veredas is a 1956 novel by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa, narrated by Riobaldo, a former jagunço recalling his life in the backlands.
Grandeza mexicana
Grandeza mexicana (Mexican Greatness) is a long descriptive poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, published in Mexico City in 1604, celebrating the capital of New Spain.
Grandfather Mazai and the Hares
Grandfather Mazai and the Hares (Дедушка Мазай и зайцы) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1870, in which an old hunter rescues hares during a spring flood.
Graphic memoir
A graphic memoir is a long-form comic recounting the cartoonist's own life or family history as nonfiction, pioneered by Justin Green in 1972 and exemplified by Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home.
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a book-length narrative in sequential art published in book form, not as periodical comic books. First named by Richard Kyle in 1964, popularized by Will Eisner's A Contract with God (1978); Maus won a Pulitzer in 1992.
Grass on the Wayside
Grass on the Wayside (道草, Michikusa) is a 1915 novel by Natsume Sōseki, generally regarded as his only autobiographical novel, about a scholar's money disputes with his foster father.
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓) (short story)
Hotaru no haka (火垂るの墓), Grave of the Fireflies, is Akiyuki Nosaka's 1967 semi-autobiographical short story about Seita and Setsuko, siblings who starve in postwar Kobe; it won the 58th Naoki Prize and inspired Takahata's 1988 Ghibli film.
Gravity and Grace
Gravity and Grace (La pesanteur et la grâce) is a 1947 collection of short reflective passages by French philosopher Simone Weil, the first book published under her name.
Gravity Falls: Journal 3
Gravity Falls: Journal 3, also known as Journal Three, is a 2016 tie-in book by Alex Hirsch and Rob Renzetti reproducing the fictional journal from the animated series Gravity Falls.
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is Thomas Pynchon's 1973 postmodern novel set in the last year of World War II, following American GI Tyrone Slothrop and the V-2 rocket, an encyclopedic work of about 400 characters compared to Ulysses.
Grażyna
Grażyna is an 1823 classicist epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz in which the duchess Grażyna, disguised as a man, leads Lithuania's army against the Teutonic Order.
Great American Novel
The Great American Novel (GAN) is a hypothetical US novel capturing the national character, codified in John W. De Forest's 1868 Nation essay naming Uncle Tom's Cabin; later typologized by Lawrence Buell into four scripts.
Great and Unfortunate Things
Great and Unfortunate Things is Jason Arday's memoir, with Eve Claxton, published by 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster in August 2026, recounting his rise from nonverbal autistic childhood in South London to Cambridge professorship, days before his death amid plagiarism allegations.
Great Big Beautiful Life
Great Big Beautiful Life is Emily Henry's 2025 Berkley romance/historical fiction novel, a Reese's Book Club pick and instant #1 New York Times bestseller, in which rival journalists Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson compete to write the biography of reclusive heiress Margaret Ives on Georgia's Little Crescent Island.
Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World: 54-volume anthology published by Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1952, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler with the Syntopicon index of 102 great ideas; 60-volume second edition in 1990.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's 1860–61 novel about the orphan Pip, serialized weekly in All the Year Round with over 100,000 weekly sales, first book edition 1861, and a long afterlife in film, TV, and literary spin-offs.
Great Lakes Avengers
Great Lakes Avengers (GLA), also Great Lakes X-Men or Champions: Marvel Comics comedic superhero team created by John Byrne in West Coast Avengers #46 (1989), based in Milwaukee, with Mr. Immortal, Big Bertha, Doorman, Flatman, and Squirrel Girl.
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology (Anthologia Graeca) is the largest surviving collection of short Greek poems, chiefly epigrams, assembled by Byzantine compilers such as Constantine Cephalas around 900.
Greek novel
The Greek novel, also called the Greek romance, is ancient Greek prose fiction from the first to fourth centuries CE, best known for love stories of separated noble lovers.
Green Days by the River
Green Days by the River is a 1967 coming-of-age novel by the Trinidadian writer Michael Anthony, whose fifteen-year-old protagonist, Shell Lammy, grows into adulthood in rural Mayaro, Trinidad.
Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham is a 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss in which Sam-I-Am persuades a narrator to try the dish, written with just 50 words.
Green Grapes
"Green Grapes" (Cheongpodo) is a 1939 poem by the Korean resistance poet Yi Yuk-sa, first published in the magazine Munjang, that uses ripening grapes as a symbol of national renewal.
Green Grass, Running Water
Green Grass, Running Water is a 1993 novel by Thomas King, set in Blossom, Alberta, blending Blackfoot contemporary life, Coyote, and retold creation stories in a nonlinear narrative.