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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a 1999 novel by Salman Rushdie reimagining the Orpheus and Eurydice myth as the story of two Indian-born rock stars.
The Gruffalo
The Gruffalo (1999) is Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's rhyming picture book about a mouse who invents a monster to scare predators, then meets the real Gruffalo; sold over 13 million copies, translated widely, adapted to stage, film, and sequels The Gruffalo's Child (2004) and Gruffalo Granny (2026).
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a 2008 epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows about a 1946 writer corresponding with Guernsey islanders whose book club began as a curfew alibi during the German occupation; a #1 NYT bestseller adapted by Netflix in 2018.
The Guest (novel)
The Guest is Emma Cline's 2023 Random House novel about Alex, a 22-year-old escort drifting through the Hamptons after being dismissed by Simon; a bestseller, PEN/Faulkner-longlisted, with an A24 film adaptation in talks.
The Guest in the House
The Guest in the House (Host do domu) is a 1921 poetry collection, the first book of the Czech poet Jiří Wolker, written in a voice of love for everyday life.
The Guest List
The Guest List is Lucy Foley's 2020 HarperCollins murder mystery about a wedding on a remote Irish island where one of thirteen guests is found dead; a Goodreads Choice Award winner and Reese's Book Club pick.
The Guide
The Guide (1958) by R. K. Narayan, also known as the Malgudi novel Railway Raju, about a tourist guide mistaken for a holy man; first novel in English to win the Sahitya Akademi Award and basis of the 1965 film Guide.
The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ)
The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's three-volume documentary work on the Soviet forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956, first published in Paris in 1973.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman's 1962 Macmillan narrative history of the first month of World War I, won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and influenced Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All (気になってる人が男じゃなかった, KiniOto, "green yuri") is Sumiko Arai's yuri webcomic-turned-manga about Aya, who falls for a CD shop clerk who is really her classmate Mitsuki; over 2.25 million copies sold, anime by CloverWorks premieres January 8, 2027.
The Gwendy Trilogy
The Gwendy Trilogy, or Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy, is Stephen King and Richard Chizmar's three-novella series (2017–2022) following Gwendy Peterson, guardian of a catastrophe-causing button box, from 1974 Castle Rock into space.
The Gypsies
The Gypsies (Цыганы) is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1824 during his southern exile and published as a book in 1827, the last of his "Southern poems".
The Haitian Trilogy
The Haitian Trilogy is Derek Walcott's 2002 collection of three verse plays on the Haitian Revolution, gathering Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haitian Earth.
The Half Brother
The Half Brother (Halvbroren) is a 2001 epic novel by the Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen, following half-brothers Barnum and Fred through four generations in postwar Oslo.
The Hallmarked Man
The Hallmarked Man (2025) is the eighth Cormoran Strike crime novel by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling's pseudonym. Published 2 September 2025, 912 pages, it follows Strike and Robin Ellacott investigating a dismembered body in a Masonic silver vault.
The Hammer of the Village
The Hammer of the Village (A helység kalapácsa) is a comic epic poem in four cantos by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, published in 1844 as his first printed book.
The Hand (comics)
The Hand is a Marvel Comics ninja-assassin organization created by Frank Miller, first appearing in Daredevil #174 (September 1981). Led by the demon Beast, founded 1588 by Kagenobu Yoshioka, it menaces Daredevil, Elektra, and Wolverine in comics, Netflix shows, and games.
The Handan Dream
The Handan Dream (邯郸记) is a 1601 Ming play by Tang Xianzu, the last of his Four Dreams of Linchuan, following scholar Lu Sheng's dream of worldly glory.
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, also titled Offred in draft, set in Gilead, a theocratic United States where fertile women serve as Handmaids; it won the 1986 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award.
The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)
The Handmaid's Tale is a 2017 American dystopian drama series developed by Bruce Miller for Hulu, based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel and starring Elisabeth Moss.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince and Other Tales is Oscar Wilde's 1888 collection of five fairy tales, published by David Nutt, London, illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, containing The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket.
The Happy Return
The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the US) is C. S. Forester's 1937 first Horatio Hornblower novel, published 4 February by Michael Joseph, set in June 1808 off Nicaragua aboard HMS Lydia.
The Harafish
The Harafish (Malhamat al-harafish, ملحمة الحرافيش) is a 1977 novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz tracing a clan and the common people of a Cairo alley across generations.
The Hard Line
The Hard Line is a 2026 action thriller novel by Mark Greaney, the fifteenth Gray Man book following assassin Court Gentry as a vengeful killer hunts him.
The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, juvenile mystery series by "Franklin W. Dixon" (a Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, chiefly Leslie McFarlane), first published 1927; 58 original Grosset & Dunlap titles, over 70 million copies, now with Simon & Schuster.
The Hardy Boys (2020 TV series)
The Hardy Boys is a 2020 Canadian mystery adventure series developed for Hulu by Steve Cochrane and Jason Stone, based on the classic book series credited to Franklin W. Dixon.
The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give (THUG) is Angie Thomas's 2017 YA novel about Starr Carter, witness to a police shooting; #1 NYT bestseller, award-winning, adapted into a 2018 film with Amandla Stenberg, and frequently challenged in schools.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House is Shirley Jackson's 1959 Gothic novel (Viking Press) about Dr. Montague's supernatural investigation with Eleanor Vance, Theodora, and Luke; famous for its ambiguous psychological horror and adapted in 1963 and by Netflix in 2018.
The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai
The Hawaiian Romance of Laieikawai is a Hawaiian romance recorded by S. N. Haleʻole and printed in Honolulu in 1863, recounting a chiefess's wooing and deification.
The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest
The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest is a Japanese light novel series by Kagekinoko, following the healer Raust, expelled as useless but secretly top-class.