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| Gabriel Conroy | Bret Harte | Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach--fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak. | Buy | |
| Galatia 2.2 | Richard Powers | It was like so, but wasn't. | Buy | |
| Gap Creek | Robert R. Morgan | I know about Masenier because I was there. I seen him die. We didn't tell anybody the truth because it seemed so shameful, the way he died. It was too awful to describe to other people. But I was there, even though I didn't want to be, and I seen it all. | Buy | |
| Gat Heat | Richard S Prather | "Sex," she said. | Buy | |
| Gateway | Frederik Pohl | My name is Robinette Broadhead, in spite of which I am male. | Buy | |
| Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | "When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, walwaltzing around her, hypotized with longing. | Buy | |
| Gentle Julia | Booth Tarkington (Newton Booth Tarkington) | Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain. | Buy | |
| Gentleman's Agreement | Laura Z. Hobson | Abrupt as anger, depression plunged through him. | Buy | |
| Gentlemen in England | A N Wilson | Maudie Nettleship had two letters that day, but she read them in silence over the breakfast table, and did not communicate their disturbing contents to her mother and father. | Buy | |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Anita Loos | March 16th: A gentleman friend and I were dining at the Ritz last evening and he said that if I took a pencil and a paper and put down all of my thoughts it would make a book. This almost made me smile as what it would really make would be a whole row of encyclopediacs. | Buy | |
| George Silverman's Explanation | Charles Dickens | It happened in this wise - | Buy | |
| George's Mother | Stephen Crane | In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures. | Buy | |
| Gerald's Game | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | Jessie could hear the back door banging lightly, randomly, in the October breeze blowing around the house. The jamb always swelled in the fall and you really had to give the door a yank to shut it. This time they had forgotten. She thought of telling Gerald to go back and shut the door before they got too involved or that banging would drive her nuts. Then she thought how ridiculous that would be, given the current circumstances. It would ruin the whole mood. | Buy | |
| Get Carter | Ted Lewis | The rain rained. | Buy | |
| Giant | Edna Ferber | This March day the vast and brassy sky, always spangled with the silver glint of airplanes, roared and glittered with celestial traffic. | Buy | |
| Giants in the Earth | O E Rölvaag | Bright, clear sky over a plain so wide that the rim of the heavens cut down on it around the entire horizon. | Buy | |
| Giles Goat-Boy | John Barth | George is my name; my deeds have been heard of in Tower Hall, and my childhood has been chronicled in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. | Buy | |
| Glorious Apollo | E Barrington | The Nemesis of the Byron ill-luck had pursued him from birth, and yet on that day one would have thought it might have spared him. But everything had gone wrong. | Buy | |
| Go Ask Alice | Anonymous (Beatrice Matthews Sparks) | September 16 Yesterday I remember thinking I was the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all of God's creation. Could that only have been yesterday or was it endless light-years ago? | Buy | |
| Go Ask Alice | Anonymous | September 16 Yesterday I remember thinking I was the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all of God's creation. Could that only have been yesterday or was it endless light-years ago? | Buy | |
| Go Down, Moses | William Faulkner | Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike', past seventy and nearer eighty than he ever corroborated any more, a widower now and uncle to half a county and father to no one ---- this was not something participated in or even seen by himself, but by his elder cousin, McCaslin Edmonds, grandson of Isaac's father's sister and so descended by the distaff, yet not withstanding the inheritor, and in his time the bequestor, of that which some had thought then and some still thought should have been Isaac's, since his was the name in which the title to the land had first been granted from the Indian patent and which some of the descendants of his father's slave still bore in the land. | Buy | |
| Go Tell It to the Mountain | James Baldwin | Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. | Buy | |
| Godric | Frederick Buechner | Five friends I had, and two of them snakes. | Buy | |
| Gods of Riverworld | Philip José Farmer | Loga had cracked like an egg. | Buy | |
| Going After Cacciato | Tim O'Brien | It was a bad time. | Buy | |
| Going into Society | Charles Dickens | At one of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. | Buy | |
| Going Nowhere Fast | Gar Anthony Haywood | We thought we had lost Bad Dog in Las Vegas. | Buy | |
| Going Overboard | Christina Skye | Carolina Sullivan needed a man's body desperately. | Buy | |
| Goldfinger | Ian Fleming | James Bond, wth two double bourbons inside him, sat back in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. | Buy | |
| Goldfish | Raymond Chandler | I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling. | Buy | |
| Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. | Buy | |
| Good Sons | KC Constantine | Rocksburg Det. Sgt. Ruggiero Carlucci slumped into a chair at his desk in headquarters and pulled off his icy wet running shoes and socks. | Buy | |
| Good-bye, Mr. Chips | James Hilton | When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape. | Buy | |
| Goodbye and Good Luck | Grace Paley | I was popular in certain circles, says Aunt Rose. | Buy | |
| Goodbye California | Alistair MacLean | Ryder opened his tired eyelids and reached for the telephone without enthusiasm. "Yes?" | Buy | |
| Goodbye to Berlin | Christopher Isherwood | I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. | Buy | |
| Goodbye, Columbus | Philip Roth | The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. | Buy | |
| Goodbye, Janette | Harold Robbins (originally Francis Kane) | He was nervous. She could see that in the way he paced around the room, occasionally going to the window and lifting the lace curtain to look out at the rain-swept Geneva street. | Buy | |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown | In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon. | Buy | |
| Gordon Keith | Thomas Nelson Page | Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman. | Buy | |
| Gorky Park | Martin Cruz Smith | All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights
so dazzling. The van jacked, stalled and quit on a drift, and the homicide team got out, militia officers cut from a pattern of short arms and low brows, wrapped in sheepskin greatcoats. | Buy | |
| Gospel | Wilton Barnhardt | I had lost my faith, Josephus. | Buy | |
| Governor Ramage R N | Dudley Pope | The captain's cabin on board the Lion was small, even for an old sixty-four gun ship now rated too weak to stand in the line of battle. | Buy | |
| Gracie: A Love Story | George Burns | For forty years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. | Buy | |
| Granchester Grind | Tom Sharpe | 'Godber was murdered,' said Lady Mary. | Buy | |
| Grand Hotel | Vicki Baum | The Hall Porter was a little white about the gills as he came out of No. 7 box. He went for his cap which he had left on the radiator. | Buy | |
| Grandmother and the Priests | Taylor Caldwell | Rose McConnell said to her husband, William, turning a ring around on her finger, "I never look at this emerald without thinking how its color resembles Grandmother's eyes. . . ." | Buy | |
| Graustark | George Barr McCutcheon | Mr. Grenfall Lorry boarded the eastbound express at Denver with all the air of a martyr. | Buy | |
| Gravedigger | Joseph Hansen | When last he had noticed, nothing was out here but bare hills above an empty beach. | Buy | |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | A screaming comes across the sky. | Buy | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. | Buy | |
| Great Lion of God | Taylor Caldwell | "He is very ugly," said his mother. | Buy | |
| Greatheart | Ethel May Dell | Biddy Maloney stood at the window of her mistress's bedroom, and surveyed the world with eyes of stern disapproval. | Buy | |
| Green Dolphin Street | Elizabeth Goudge | Sophie le Patourel was reading aloud to her two daughters from the Book of Ruth, as they lay upon their backboards digesting their dinners and improving their deportment. This spending of the after-dinner hour upon their backboards instead of in the parlor was as a matter of fact a punishment for insubordination during the morning; but their Papa being home, Sophie was softening the punishment by reading aloud. | Buy | |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodore Seuss Geisel) | I am Sam I am Sam Sam I am That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am! | Buy | |
| Green Light | Lloyd Cassell Douglas | Uncommonly sensitive to her owner's moods--for he had imputed personality to her--Dr. Paige's rakish blue coupe noted at a glance that this was one of those eventful mornings when she would be expected to steer her own course to Parkway Hospital. | Buy | |
| Green Mansions | William Henry Hudson | Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened. | Buy | |
| Greenmantle | Charles de Lint | Frankie followed the moving van down the short driveway and watched it head off down the road; then she turned to look at the house. The difference between the half-gutted structure that had stood there when she bought the place and what was there now was phenomenal. | Buy | |
| Greenmantle | Charles de Lint | MALTA, AUGUST 1983 By the time Eddie "the Squeeze" Pinelli was five hours dead, Valenti was on a Boeing 747 halfway across the Atlantic. He sipped the beer that the steward had brought him and stared out the window into the darkness. | Buy | |
| Grendel | John Gardner | The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant. | Buy | |
| Guard of Honor | James Gould Cozzens | Through the late afternoon they flew southeast, going home to Ocanara at about two hundred miles an hour. | Buy | |
| Guilty Pleasures | Laurell K Hamilton | Willie McCoy had been a jerk before he died. His being dead didn't change that. He sat across from me, wearing a loud plaid sport jacket. | Buy | |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. | Buy | |
| Guy Livingstone | George Alfred Lawrence | It is not a pleasant epoch in one's life--the first forty-eight hours at a large public school. I have known strong-minded men of mature age confess that they never thought of it without a shiver. I don't count the home-sickness, which perhaps only affects, seriously, the most innocent debutants, but there are other thousand-and-one little annoyances which make up a great trouble. | Buy | |
| Guy Mannering | Walter Dill Scott | It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the north of England; and curiosity extended his tour into the adjacent frontier of the sister country. | Buy | |
| Gyfford of Weare | Jeffrey Farnol | The flash of a face glimpsed beyond opening door, a puff of breath, and the candle, suddenly extinguished, choked him with its reek. | Buy |