The Midas touch

The Gold Bug by Edgar Allen Poe
The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
Rumpole and the Golden Thread by John Mortimer
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

Golden Eyes by John Gideon
Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
Rosa's Veil of Gold by Kim Wilkins
Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith
The Golden Rendezvous by Alistair MacLean

Golden, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert van Gulik
Gold Coast by Elmore Leonard
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything - John D. MacDonald
Golden Gate and Other Stories - R. A. Lafferty
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion - James George Frazer
Golden Ashes - Freeman Wills Crofts
The Gold of Troy - Robert Payne (wrong touchstone)

>3 christiguc: I think you mean GODEL, Escher, Bach? :)

Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett
Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters
Goldeneye by John Gardner
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

>5 aviddiva: Yes, I do. :) That's the problem with trying to carry on a conversation while typing. . . .

The golden mountain: marvellous tales of Rabbi Israel, Baal Shem, and of his great-grandson, Rabbi Nachman, by Meyer Levin
A Golden Basin Full of Scorpions: The Quest for Modern Jerusalem, by Con Coughlin
Five Seasons of a Golden Year: a Chinese Pastoral, by Cheng-ta Fan
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: the History of a Lesbian Community, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı Collection, Istanbul, by M. Uğur Derman

Hunting for Hidden Gold by Franklin W. Dixon
The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
Tom Swift in the City of Gold by Victor Appleton
Ghost Town Treasures by Lambert Florin
The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe