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Glooscap cycle
The Glooscap cycle is the linked oral legends of the Wabanaki peoples centering on Glooscap, a culture hero who shaped the land and taught people how to live.
Glorantha
Glorantha is Greg Stafford's mythic Bronze Age fantasy world, begun in 1966 and first published in the 1975 board game White Bear and Red Moon, best known as the setting of RuneQuest, HeroQuest, and King of Dragon Pass.
Glorfindel
Glorfindel (Laurefindelë) is a Tolkien Elf-lord, chief of Gondolin's House of the Golden Flower, slain with a Balrog at the Fall of Gondolin, re-embodied, and later the Rivendell lord who rescues Frodo at the Ford of Bruinen.
Glorious Exploits
Glorious Exploits, Ferdia Lennon's 2024 debut novel, set in 412 BC Syracuse, where potters Lampo and Gelon stage Euripides' Medea with Athenian war prisoners; Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Wodehouse Prize winner.
Glosa
Glosa is a novel by the Argentine writer Juan José Saer, published in the mid-1980s and considered, alongside El entenado, the central novel of his work.
Glossă
Glossă is a philosophical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, written in the fixed glossa form and built on antinomic pairs like death and birth.
Go Ask Alice
Go Ask Alice is a 1971 young adult book published as the authentic diary of an anonymous teenage drug user, though it was actually developed by Beatrice Sparks.
Go Set a Watchman
Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee's earliest novel, written mid-1950s and published July 14, 2015. An earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows adult Scout finding Atticus Finch racist; sold over a million copies in week one.
Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)
Go Tell It on the Mountain is James Baldwin's 1953 debut novel, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of John Grimes, a fourteen-year-old in Harlem and stepson of a Pentecostal storefront preacher, adapted as a 1984 TV film.
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a 2011 profane parody bedtime book for adults by Adam Mansbach, illustrated by Ricardo Cortés, published by Akashic Books. A leaked PDF made it a viral bestseller; Samuel L. Jackson narrated the audiobook and Fox 2000 optioned the film.
Goblin Market
Goblin Market (1859, published 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti about sisters Laura and Lizzie tempted by goblin fruit vendors. Its best-known aspect is its ambiguity, sustaining religious, sexual, feminist, economic, and colonial readings.
Goblin Slayer (ゴブリンスレイヤー)
Goblin Slayer (ゴブリンスレイヤー) is a dark fantasy light novel series by Kumo Kagyu, illustrated by Noboru Kannatuki, GA Bunko, from February 2016; 16 volumes, Yen Press English edition, manga, and 2018 and 2023 anime seasons.
Góc sân và khoảng trời
Góc sân và khoảng trời ("The Corner of the Yard and the Stretch of Sky") is a 1968 Vietnamese poetry collection by Trần Đăng Khoa.
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children
"God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children" is a 1955 poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, in which God's mercy fades with age, from children to adults.
God Sees the Truth, But Waits (Бог правду видит да не скоро скажет")
God Sees the Truth, But Waits, also known as The Confessed Crime, is an 1872 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a merchant wrongly convicted of murder.
God's Bits of Wood
God's Bits of Wood (French: Les Bouts de bois de Dieu) is a 1960 novel by Senegalese writer Ousmane Sembène about the 1947–48 Dakar-Niger railroad strike.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 collection of poems by James Weldon Johnson that renders the traditional African American folk preacher in verse.
Godaan (गोदान)
Godaan (गोदान), also Godan, is Munshi Premchand's 1936 Hindi novel, his last complete work, about the peasant Hori and Dhaniya; translated as The Gift of a Cow, it is a classic of Indian rural realism.
Godan
Godan (गोदान), also rendered Godaan, is a 1936 Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand, his last completed work, following the peasant Hori as debt, landlords, and caste exploitation destroy him.
Gods' Man
Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts is Lynd Ward's 1929 wordless novel, the first American one, told in 139 wood engravings of a Faustian artist's bargain, precursor of the graphic novel.
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato is Tim O'Brien's 1978 second novel, winner of the 1979 National Book Award for Fiction. In it, draftee Paul Berlin, on night watch in Quang Ngai, imagines his squad chasing the deserter Cacciato from Vietnam to Paris.
Going Postal
Going Postal is Terry Pratchett's 33rd Discworld novel (2004), first of the Moist von Lipwig books, in which a con artist must revive Ankh-Morpork's Post Office against the clacks semaphore monopoly; adapted for Sky1 in 2010.
Gōkan
Gōkan (合巻) are illustrated Japanese fiction books of the late Edo period, the last and most elaborate kusazōshi, combining full-page ukiyo-e pictures with text on every page.
Goku (孫悟空)
Son Goku (孫悟空), also called Goku, is the protagonist of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1984–1995, over 260 million copies), modeled on Sun Wukong, voiced by Masako Nozawa since 1986, and honored with Goku Day on May 9.
Gokula Nirgamana
Gokula Nirgamana (ಗೋಕುಲ ನಿರ್ಗಮನ) is a 1945 Kannada song-play by the poet P. T. Narasimhachar that dramatizes Krishna and Balarama leaving Gokula for Mathura and the grief of Radha and the gopis left behind.
Göl Saatleri
Göl Saatleri, the first poetry collection of the Turkish poet Ahmet Haşim (1887–1933), was published in Istanbul in 1921 and is regarded as a founding work of modern Turkish poetry.
Golden Boy (ゴールデンボーイ) (manga)
Golden Boy (ゴールデンボーイ) is Tatsuya Egawa's seinen manga serialized in Shueisha's Super Jump 1992-1997, 10 volumes, about Tokyo University dropout Kintaro Oe; adapted as a 1995-1996 six-episode A.P.P.P. OVA, with a 2010-2011 sequel Golden Boy II.
Golden Son
Golden Son (2015) by Pierce Brown is book two of the Red Rising trilogy, following Darrow au Andromedus, the Reaper, a Red sleeper agent among the Gold elite; published by Del Rey, 448 pages.
Golden Time (ゴールデンタイム) (novel series)
Golden Time is a Japanese romance light novel series by Takemiya, the author of Toradora!, published by Dengeki Bunko in eight volumes from 2010 to 2014.
Golgo 13 (ゴルゴ13)
Golgo 13 (ゴルゴ13) is Takao Saito's gekiga manga, serialized in Big Comic since November 1968 without hiatus, starring the enigmatic sniper Duke Togo; Guinness record holder for most volumes of a single manga series, continued by Saito Production after 2021.