Gravity’s Rainbow
1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon
masterpiece
Old Glory
Old Glory is a travel book by Jonathan Raban. It is the winner of The Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure
The Travels of Marco Polo
13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo’s travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan.The book was written by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, who worked from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned together in Genoa
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by Franois Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel . The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce
Book Lust
Written by Nancy Pearl, former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book and inspiration for the Librarian action figure