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The Good Shepherd (novel)
The Good Shepherd is C. S. Forester's 1955 naval novel about Commander George Krause of the USS Keeling escorting an Atlantic convoy through 48 hours of U-boat attacks; adapted as the 2020 Tom Hanks film Greyhound.
The Good Soldier
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, Ford Madox Ford's 1915 modernist novel originally titled The Saddest Story, narrated by the unreliable John Dowell about adultery among two couples at Nauheim.
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier Švejk (Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války) is Jaroslav Hašek's unfinished satirical anti-war novel, published 1921–1923, about the Czech soldier Josef Švejk; translated into 54 languages and completed posthumously by Karel Vaněk.
The Goose and the Common
The Goose and the Common is an anonymous English protest verse, also known as the goose poem, criticizing enclosure of common land; it survives in variants, often dated 1764, with no secure source before the 19th century.
The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl
The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl (ゴリラの神から加護された令嬢は王立騎士団で可愛がられる), a Narō web novel by Shirohi, printed as a Mika Kamisu manga (8 vols) and adapted into a 12-episode 2025 Kachigarasu anime.
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, also called Pastafarian scripture, is Bobby Henderson's 2006 satirical book parodying intelligent design; it grew from his 2005 open letter to the Kansas school board and is treated as sacred by Pastafarians.
The Governor (The Walking Dead)
The Governor is the fictional villain and Woodbury community leader in The Walking Dead comics and TV series, played by David Morrissey; first appearing in issue 27, known in the novels as Brian Blake, and remembered for beheading Hershel and keeping walker heads in fish tanks.
The Governor of the Southern Branch
The Governor of the Southern Branch (南柯太守傳) is a Tang dynasty tale by Li Gongzu in which Chunyu Fen dreams he serves twenty years as governor of an ant kingdom.
The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor (Великий инквизитор) is a prose poem told by Ivan Karamazov in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, in which Christ returns to Inquisition-era Seville.
The Grandmother
The Grandmother (Babička) is an 1855 prose work by Czech writer Božena Němcová, depicting an elderly woman's life in the Ratibořice valley and regarded as her masterpiece.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer-winning novel of the Joad family's Dust Bowl migration from Oklahoma to California; also called Steinbeck's masterpiece and a cornerstone of his 1962 Nobel Prize.
The Grass Is Singing
The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's first novel, published in 1950, about a white farmer's wife in Southern Rhodesia murdered by her Black servant.
The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book (2008) is Neil Gaiman's gothic fantasy novel in which Nobody Owens, called Bod, orphaned by the assassin Jack, is raised by ghosts in a graveyard. Winner of the Newbery Medal, Carnegie Medal, and Hugo Award; inspired by The Jungle Book.
The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith
The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith is Ian Smith's 1997 autobiography (Blake Publishing, 418 pp), also issued as Bitter Harvest, defending Rhodesia's UDI and blaming Britain, the US, and South Africa for its fall.
The Great Derangement
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable is a 2016 essay by Amitav Ghosh arguing that the realist novel is unequipped to represent climate change.
The Great Divorce
The Great Divorce is a theological fantasy by C. S. Lewis, published in 1945, which is a medieval dream-vision arguing that Heaven and Hell are absolutely separated.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel published by Scribner's, narrated by Nick Carraway, follows Jay Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy Buchanan in Jazz Age New York; a commercial failure then, now a classic.
The Great God Pan
The Great God Pan is Arthur Machen's 1894 horror novella (first version in The Whirlwind, 1890), published by John Lane at The Bodley Head with 'The Inmost Light' in the Keynotes Series, denounced as decadent, later a horror classic influencing Lovecraft and Stephen King.
The Great Hunt
The Great Hunt names two fantasy novels: Robert Jordan's 1990 Wheel of Time book two about the stolen Horn of Valere and Rand al'Thor, and Wendy Higgins's 2016 YA Eurona Duology opener about Princess Aerity.
The Great Lair
The Great Lair (Великий льох) is an allegorical poem by the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, subtitled a mystery and written in 1845, examining Ukraine's loss of statehood after the 1654 Pereiaslav Council.
The Great Snake's Bride
The Great Snake's Bride (大蛇に嫁いだ娘, Daija ni Totsuida Musume) is a Japanese romance-fantasy manga by Fushiashikumo about Miyo, a village woman offered as a bride to the giant snake god Daija; serialized from 2021, published in English by Seven Seas from 2023.
The Great Tradition
The Great Tradition is a 1948 work of literary criticism by F. R. Leavis naming Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad as the great English novelists.
The Great When
The Great When is a 2024 Alan Moore novel, first of the five-book Long London series, in which 1949 bookseller Dennis Knuckleyard finds an impossible Arthur Machen book opening into a magical shadow-London.
The Great World
The Great World is a 1990 novel by Australian writer David Malouf following two men from Japanese captivity in World War II into postwar life.
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody (史上最強の大魔王、村人Aに転生する)
Japanese light novel series by Myojin Katou and Sao Mizuno (史上最強の大魔王、村人Aに転生する): Demon Lord Varvatos reincarnates as villager Ard Meteor in a magic-weakened future. 10 volumes 2018-2022, manga since 2019, 12-episode anime April 2022, Yen Press English edition.
The Greatest Estate Developer
The Greatest Estate Developer (역대급 영지 설계사) is a Korean web novel by BK_Moon and Naver Webtoon manhwa by Lee Hyunmin and Kim Hyunsoo in which civil engineering student Suho Kim wakes as the debt-ridden noble Lloyd Frontera and rebuilds his estate with engineering; 222 chapters, completed 2026.
The Green House
The Green House (La casa verde) is the second novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, set in Piura and the Amazon around a brothel called the Green House.
The Green Mile (novel)
The Green Mile is Stephen King's 1996 serial novel about death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary in 1932, published in six monthly installments (The Two Dead Girls through Coffey on the Mile), collected in 1997, and adapted into Frank Darabont's 1999 Tom Hanks film.
The Green Pope
The Green Pope (El Papa Verde) is a 1954 novel by the Guatemalan Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias, second volume of his Banana Trilogy denouncing foreign capital in Guatemala.
The Grim Grotto
The Grim Grotto (2004) is book 11 of 13 in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; the Baudelaire orphans search an underwater cave aboard the submarine Queequeg for the sugar bowl and face the lethal Medusoid Mycelium fungus.