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Gollum
Gollum, originally Sméagol, is Tolkien's corrupted Stoor Hobbit Ring-bearer in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; he murdered Déagol for the Ring, lost it to Bilbo, guided Frodo, and died at Mount Doom.
Golpitha
Golpitha (गोलपिठा) is the first poetry collection of the Marathi Dalit poet Namdeo Dhasal, published in the early 1970s and named after the Bombay red-light district where he grew up.
Golpo Guccho
Golpo Guccho (গল্পগুচ্ছ, "A Bunch of Stories") is the standard collected edition of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories, a core Bengali text gathering 90 of his 95 stories, including "Kabuliwala" and "Postmaster."
Gondor
Gondor, the South-kingdom of the Dúnedain in Tolkien's Middle-earth, founded S.A. 3320 by Isildur and Anárion; capital Osgiliath then Minas Tirith; ruled by Stewards before Aragorn's restoration in T.A. 3019.
Gone (novel series)
Gone is Michael Grant's YA dystopian science fiction series set in Perdido Beach, California, where everyone 15 and older vanishes inside the FAYZ barrier; six core books (2008-2013) plus the Monster, Villain, Hero sequel trilogy.
Gone Before Goodbye
Gone Before Goodbye, a 2025 medical thriller by Reese Witherspoon (her novel debut) and Harlan Coben (his first collaboration), published by Grand Central on October 14, 2025; New York Times bestseller about disgraced Army surgeon Maggie McCabe, a griefbot, and a Russian oligarch.
Gone Girl (novel)
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn's 2012 Crown thriller, follows Nick and Amy Dunne's dueling narrations after Amy vanishes on their fifth anniversary; its midpoint twist, Cool Girl monologue, and 2014 Fincher film made it the template for domestic suspense.
Gone with the Wind (novel)
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's 1936 Macmillan novel of the Civil War and Reconstruction South starring Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler; Pulitzer 1937 winner, basis of the 1939 Selznick film, criticized for Lost Cause and racist depictions.
Good Material
Good Material is Dolly Alderton's second novel (Fig Tree, 2023; Knopf, 2024) about 35-year-old comedian Andy Dawson after girlfriend Jen leaves him, told from his perspective with Jen's viewpoint at the end; a NYT bestseller and Read with Jenna pick.
Good Morning Comrades
Good Morning Comrades (original Portuguese title Bom dia, camaradas) is a 2001 Angolan novel by Ondjaki, his first, narrated by a twelve-year-old boy in Luanda during the civil war.
Good Omens
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, a 1990 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about an angel and demon averting the Apocalypse; adapted for BBC Radio 4 and Amazon Prime.
Good People (novel)
Good People (2026) is Patmeena Sabit's debut novel, published by Crown, about Afghan refugee family the Sharafs in Virginia after daughter Zorah's drowning sparks honor-killing rumors; told by nearly 60 narrators, a bestseller and Giller shortlistee.
Goodbye to All That
Goodbye to All That is Robert Graves's 1929 autobiography, recounting his childhood and his service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in the First World War.
Goodbye Tsugumi
Goodbye Tsugumi (Japanese title Tugumi, つぐみ) is a 1989 novel by Banana Yoshimoto that won the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize and appeared in Michael Emmerich's English translation in 2002.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is James Hilton's 1934 novella of Mr. Chipping, a classics master at Brookfield School from 1870 to 1933; filmed in 1939, 1969, and 2002, it sold 130,000 copies in ten months.
Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Mister Tom, also Good Night, Mr. Tom, is Michelle Magorian's 1981 debut children's novel about evacuee Willie Beech and widower Tom Oakley; won the 1982 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was adapted for TV in 1998 with John Thaw.
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon, 1947 picture book by Margaret Wise Brown with Clement Hurd's illustrations, shows a rabbit saying goodnight in the great green room; rejected by NYPL librarian Anne Carroll Moore, it later sold over 40 million copies.
Goodnight Punpun (おやすみプンプン)
Goodnight Punpun (Oyasumi Punpun, おやすみプンプン) is Inio Asano's completed 2007–2013 seinen manga, 13 Shogakukan volumes, about a boy drawn as a bird-symbol growing up through family collapse, depression, and his bond with Aiko Tanaka; English VIZ Signature omnibus.
Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a children's horror fiction series by R.L. Stine, launched by Scholastic in 1992; with over 400 million copies in print, it was named the world's bestselling book series in 2003.
Gopalla Gramam
Gopalla Gramam (கோபல்ல கிராமம்) is a 1976 Tamil novel by Ki. Rajanarayanan, his first, telling of Telugu-speaking people who migrated from Andhra and founded a village in the Karisal region of southern Tamil Nadu.
Gora
Gora (গোরা) is a 1910 novel in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore, widely regarded as his longest and one of his major works, set in colonial Calcutta.
Gora Badal ki Katha
Gora Badal ki Katha (गोरा बादल की कथा) is a Hindi narrative poem by Jatmal Nahar, composed in 1623 and counted among the first works in Khari Boli.
Gorakh Bani
Gorakh Bani (गोरखबानी), "the sayings of Gorakh," is a compilation of Old Hindi texts by and about the Nāth yogis, edited by Pitambar Datt Barthwal in the mid-twentieth century.
Gormenghast (series)
Gormenghast series, also called the Gormenghast Trilogy or Titus Books: Mervyn Peake's three dark-fantasy novels Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Titus Alone (1959), set in a ritual-bound crumbling castle, plus the unfinished fourth book Titus Awakes.
Gosen Wakashū
Gosen Wakashū (後撰和歌集), often abbreviated Gosenshū, is the second imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, ordered by Emperor Murakami in 951 and holding about 1,425 poems.
Goshūi Wakashū
Goshūi Wakashū (後拾遺和歌集, Later Collected Gleanings), also read Goshūishū, is the fourth imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, presented to Emperor Shirakawa's throne in 1086.
Gosick (ゴシック)
Gosick (ゴシック) is a Japanese mystery light-novel series by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrated by Hinata Takeda, set in 1924 Sauville; 8 volumes plus GOSICKs, Kadokawa Bunko reissue, 2011 BONES anime, sequels RED/BLUE/PINK/GREEN.
Gossip Girl (novel series)
Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar, published from 2002, about privileged Manhattan teenagers chronicled by an anonymous gossip narrator.
Gösta Berling's Saga
Gösta Berling's Saga is a debut novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1891, about a defrocked priest who joins the cavaliers at the Ekeby estate in Värmland.
Gotham by Gaslight
Gotham by Gaslight: 1989 DC graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, the first Elseworlds tale, a Victorian-era Batman hunting Jack the Ripper on Earth-19; 1992 sequel Master of the Future; 2018 R-rated animated film.