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Gadla Estifanos
Gadla Estifanos (ገድለ እስጢፋኖስ) is the Ge'ez hagiographic vita of Abba Estifanos, the 15th-century Ethiopian monk who founded the Stephanite reform movement, edited and translated by Getatchew Haile in 2006.
Gadla Giyorgis
Gadla Giyorgis (ገድለ ጊዮርጊስ), the Life of St George, is a Ge'ez hagiography attributed to Pasicrates, the saint's servant, read in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Gadla Iyasus Mo'a
The Gadla Iyasus Mo'a (ገድለ ኢየሱስ ሞኣ), or Acts of Iyasus Mo'a, is a 15th-century Ge'ez hagiography of the monk who founded Däbrä Hayq monastery on an island in Lake Hayq, Ethiopia.
Gadla Sama'tat
Gadla Sama'tat (Ge'ez: ገድለ ሰማዕታት, "Contendings of the Martyrs") is a traditional title for varying Ge'ez collections of martyr Acts, attested since 1292 and mostly translated from Arabic.
Gadsby (novel)
Gadsby, Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 lipogram novel, avoids the letter e across about 50,000 words, written with the E typewriter key tied down, published by Wetzel, and inspiring Perec's La Disparition.
Gadya-kavya
Gadya-kavya (गद्यकाव्य) is ornate literary prose in classical Sanskrit, one of three kavya styles, with the earliest surviving works from Bana and Dandin in the 7th century.
Gaius Helen Mohiam
Gaius Helen Mohiam, Reverend Mother of Frank Herbert's Dune novels; Bene Gesserit leader, Emperor's Truthsayer, administer of Paul's gom jabbar test; killed by Stilgar in Dune Messiah; portrayed by Siân Phillips, Zuzana Geislerová, and Charlotte Rampling.
Gal x Gal Yuri
#Gal x Gal Yuri (#ギャルとギャルの百合) is a yuri romantic comedy manga by Inoue (Koharu Inoue), serialized on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry since June 2025, about gyaru girls Yua and Reina's trial relationship, licensed in English by VIZ Media.
Galadriel
Galadriel is Tolkien's Elven Lady of Lothlórien, keeper of Nenya, who refuses the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Also called Artanis; created late, with inconsistent backstory; portrayed by Blanchett and Clark.
Galaxias (manga)
GALAXIAS (ガラクシアス) is a shonen battle fantasy manga by Ao Hatesaka, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine from July 2024 and on MagaPoke from February 2025, following amnesiac dragon-man Nereid and adventure-seeking girl Geo.
Galaxy Express 999
Galaxy Express 999 (銀河鉄道999) is a science fiction manga by Leiji Matsumoto, serialized from 1977 to 1981, in which a poor boy rides an interstellar super-express toward Andromeda.
Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? (オタクに優しいギャルはいない！？)
Gals Can't Be Kind to Otaku!? (オタクに優しいギャルはいない！？, Otaku ni Yasashii Gyaru wa Inai!?) is a school-caste romcom manga by Norishiro-chan and Sakana Uozumi, serialized in Monthly Comic Zenon since 2021; over 1 million copies, with a 12-episode TV anime airing April-June 2026 on TV Asahi.
Gamanaka Mula
Gamanaka Mula, meaning The Beginning of a Journey, is a 1984 Sinhala novel by Sri Lankan writer Gunadasa Amarasekara, first volume of a saga on the Sinhala middle class.
Gamebook
Gamebook: a printed branching-path story in numbered, non-sequential sections where the reader chooses what happens next, also called choose-your-own-adventure books. Two strands exist: pure branching novels (Choose Your Own Adventure) and dice-and-stats adventure gamebooks (Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf).
Gamers! (ゲーマーズ！)
Gamers! is Sekina Aoi and Saba’s Japanese romantic-comedy light novel series about students, games, and tangled relationships, adapted into manga and a 2017 PINE JAM anime.
Gamperaliya
Gamperaliya (ගම්පෙරළිය) is a 1944 Sinhala novel by Martin Wickramasinghe depicting the decline of traditional village society in colonial Ceylon; it opens his trilogy with Kaliyugaya and Yugantaya.
Ganadevata
Ganadevata (গণদেবতা) is a 1942 Bengali novel by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay portraying a rural village caught between feudal decay and industrialization, which earned him the 1966 Jnanpith Award.
Gandalf
Gandalf, also Olórin or Mithrandir, is a wizard in Tolkien's Middle-earth: a Maia sent as one of five Istari in the Third Age, bearer of Narya, later Gandalf the White, who defeats Sauron's plans and sails west in T.A. 3021.
Gandoki
Gandoki (Ganɗoki) is a Hausa-language novella by Muhammadu Bello Kagara, published in Zaria in 1934 and counted among the founding works of modern written Hausa prose fiction.
Ganga Lahari
Ganga Lahari (गङ्गालहरी, "A Wave of the Ganga") is a Sanskrit devotional hymn of 52 verses in praise of the river goddess Ganga, composed by the seventeenth-century poet Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja.
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (巌窟王)
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo (巌窟王) is a 24-episode Japanese science fiction anime from studio GONZO, broadcast from 2004 to 2005, that retells Alexandre Dumas's revenge novel in a far-future Paris.
Gantz (ガンツ)
Gantz (ガンツ) is Hiroya Oku's 2000-2013 Weekly Young Jump science-fiction manga in which a black sphere revives the dead to fight aliens for points; 37 volumes, anime, live-action films, GANTZ:O.
Ganymed
Ganymed is a free-verse hymn by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, probably written in 1774, in which the speaker surrenders to springtime nature; it was made famous by Schubert's 1817 song setting.
Garden of Repose
Garden of Repose (Qiyuan, 憩园) is a 1944 novella by Chinese writer Ba Jin about two families living in turn in one mansion in a wartime city.
Garden of Shadows
Garden of Shadows, also listed as the Dollanganger prequel, is V.C. Andrews' 1986/1987 novel told from grandmother Olivia Foxworth's perspective, completed by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman and adapted by Lifetime in 2022 as Flowers in the Attic: The Origin.
Garden of Stories
Garden of Stories, also known as Shuo Yuan (說苑), is a collection of historical anecdotes compiled by the Western Han scholar Liu Xiang as moral guidance for the emperor.
Garden, Ashes
Garden, Ashes (Bašta, pepeo) is a 1965 autobiographical novel by Danilo Kiš, told through a boy watching his father disappear during the early years of World War II.
Gardens of the Moon
Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson (with world co-creator Ian C. Esslemont), is the 1999 first novel of the ten-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen, begun as a 1982 RPG campaign and a failed film script, shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award.
Garfield (character)
Garfield, the orange tabby cat of Jim Davis's comic strip, debuted June 19, 1978. Known for lasagna, naps, and hating Mondays; world's most syndicated comic strip with a vast merchandising empire.
Gargantua
Gargantua, Rabelais's 1534/1535 prose satire (La Vie inestimable du grand Gargantua), father-story of Pantagruel: giant birth, humanist education, Picrochole war, Lyon printing, Sorbonne censorship, Urquhart translation.