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Gilead (novel)
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's 2004 epistolary novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is the letter of dying Iowa minister John Ames to his young son; it won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and launched the Gilead series with Home, Lila, and Jack.
Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld
Sumerian poem GEN (ETCSL 1.8.1.4), also Gilgamesh and the halub tree, predating the Epic of Gilgamesh; Enkidu descends to the netherworld and reports on the dead; survives as Tablet XII.
Gimli (Middle-earth)
Gimli, son of Glóin, is the Dwarf of Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring: Elf-friend, Lockbearer, slayer of 42 Orcs at Helm's Deep, Lord of the Glittering Caves, and the only Dwarf said to have sailed West, with Legolas in Fo.A. 120.
Gimpel the Fool
Gimpel the Fool (Yiddish: Gimpl tam) is a 1945 short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer about a gullible baker, made famous by Saul Bellow's 1953 English translation.
Ginny Weasley
Ginny Weasley (Ginevra Molly Weasley), Harry Potter's eventual wife in J.K. Rowling's series: youngest Weasley, Gryffindor Quidditch Seeker and Chaser, Bat-Bogey Hex, possessed by Tom Riddle's diary, Harpies player then Daily Prophet sports editor.
Gintama: Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class
Gintama: Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class (3年Z組銀八先生) is a Gintama school-comedy spin-off: a 2004 one-shot, a nine-volume Tomohito Oosaki novel series from 2006, and a 12-episode BN Pictures TV anime aired October 2025 on TV Tokyo.
Gió lạnh đầu mùa
"Gió lạnh đầu mùa" ("The First Cold Winds of the Season") is a short story by Vietnamese writer Thạch Lam, published in his debut collection Gió đầu mùa in 1937.
Giông tố
Giông tố, rendered in English as The Storm, is a satirical realist novel by Vietnamese writer Vũ Trọng Phụng, first published in 1936, that depicts colonial Vietnamese society as corrupt and morally degraded.
Giovanni's Room
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's 1956 second novel published by Dial Press after Knopf's rejection, tells of David, an American in Paris torn between his fiancée Hella and his lover Giovanni, an Italian bartender; a touchstone of queer literature with an all-white cast.
Gira Sandesha
Gira Sandesha (ගිරා සන්දේශය, "The Parrot's Message") is a fifteenth-century Sinhala messenger poem whose author is unknown, in which a parrot carries a petition to the monk Sri Rahula.
Girart de Roussillon
Girart de Roussillon is a 12th-century Old French and Old Occitan epic poem of about 10,000 lines recounting the vassal Girart's wars against King Charles the Bald.
Girart de Vienne
Girart de Vienne is an Old French chanson de geste by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, written around 1180, telling of Girart's defense of Vienne against Charlemagne.
Girl Crush (manga)
Girl Crush (ガールクラッシュ) is a shoujo manga by Midori Tayama serialized on LINE Manga's Comic Nicola label about Japanese girls training to become K-pop idols; over 900,000 copies sold, with a Viz print edition and a TBS TV anime announced.
Girl Genius
Girl Genius is a gaslamp fantasy comic and webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio, running since 2001, following the young Spark Agatha Heterodyne in an alternate Victorian Europe.
Girl Late for School with Toast in Her Mouth (遅刻する食パン少女)
遅刻する食パン少女 (Girl Late for School with Toast in Her Mouth): Japanese manga trope of a girl running late with toast, colliding with a boy. Popularized by Saru-man (1989); no actual manga contains the full scene.
Girl Meets Rock! (普通の軽音部)
Girl Meets Rock! (ふつうの軽音部, Futsū no Keionbu) is a Japanese web manga by Kuwahali and Tetsuo Ideuchi on Shōnen Jump+ since 2024, about Chihiro Hatono's high school light music club; Next Manga Award 2024 web winner, English via Manga Plus and Seven Seas.
Girl next door
Girl next door: female archetype of wholesome, all-American, natural charm, dated to the 1920s or earlier; Doris Day its emblem. Also a recurring book title, from Seaman's 1917 mystery to Ketchum's 1989 horror inversion and Meredith's 2025 sapphic rom-com.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir of her 18-month stay at McLean Hospital beginning April 1967 at age 18, built from vignettes, reproduced medical records, and retrospective commentary; adapted into the 1999 film with Winona Ryder and Oscar winner Angelina Jolie.
Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other (2019) is Bernardine Evaristo's eighth novel, a fusion-fiction portrait of twelve interconnected, mostly Black British characters. It jointly won the 2019 Booker Prize with Atwood's The Testaments, making Evaristo the first Black woman to win.
Gita Govinda
Gita Govinda (गीत गोविन्द), also Gitagovinda, is a 12th-century Sanskrit lyric poem by Jayadeva on the love of Radha and Krishna, in 12 chapters and 24 ashtapadi songs, sung nightly at Puri's Jagannath temple and central to Odissi dance and Indian painting traditions.
Gita Rahasya
Gita Rahasya (गीता रहस्य) is a Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Mandalay jail, arguing the Gita teaches karma yoga, desireless action.
Gitanjali (গীতাঞ্জলি)
Gitanjali (গীতাঞ্জলি), or Song Offerings, is Rabindranath Tagore's 1910 Bengali collection of 157 devotional songs; its 1912 English self-translation of 103 prose poems, introduced by W. B. Yeats, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gitavali
Gitavali is a sixteenth-century Hindi song-cycle by the poet Tulsidas, retelling the whole story of Rama as devotional songs in Braj Bhasha, divided into seven kands like his epic Ramcharitmanas.
Gitimalya
Gitimalya (গীতিমাল্য), meaning "garland of songs", is a 1914 collection of Bengali songs and poems by Rabindranath Tagore whose poems fed the English Song Offerings and formed a trilogy with Gitanjali and Gitali.
Give Back the Human
"Give Back the Human" (Ningen o kaese) is the prelude of Tōge Sankichi's 1951 Poems of the Atomic Bomb, written from his own experience of the Hiroshima bombing.
Given (ギヴン) (manga)
Given (ギヴン) is Natsuki Kizu's Boys' Love manga about a student band, serialized in Cheri+ from 2013 in nine volumes, adapted as the first Noitamina BL anime in 2019, with a 10th mix epilogue sequel.
Glaura
Glaura is a 1799 book of erotic lyric poems by the Brazilian Arcadian poet Silva Alvarenga, with 59 rondós and 56 madrigals on the shepherd Alcindo's elusive beloved.
Glen Cook bibliography
Glen Cook is a fantasy and science fiction author who wrote over 60 books, including the Black Company (1984). He composed his work while working at a General Motors plant.
Glenn Rhee
Glenn Rhee is a fictional character from Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comics and the AMC series, played by Steven Yeun. A former pizza delivery boy, he marries Maggie Greene and dies at Negan's hands in both versions.
Glinda
Glinda, also Glinda the Good, is L. Frank Baum's Good Witch of the South in Oz, later the pink-gowned 1939 MGM figure and the Galinda of Wicked, played by Ariana Grande in the 2024-2025 films.