titles

girl books

If a book has “girl” in the title, I am instantly drawn to it. I don’t why, but a lot of other readers must be, too, because publishers are pumping them out like crazy. Who knows? Maybe the “girl-”title craze kicked into high gear with the popularity of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. Whatever the reason, there are a LOT of books with “girl” in the title!

I’ve read man good books with “girl” in the title, but no GREAT ones yet. Do you have any favorites to recommend? Here are some of the more recent, highly-rated ones.

Currently Reading:

The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts by K.C. Tansley

Want to Read. . . in this order, unless my mood changes:

The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (recommended by Beth @ betwixt-these-pages)
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco (recommended by Beth @ betwixt-these-pages) https://betwixtthesepages.wordpress.com/category/about-me/
The Goose Jar by Shannon Hale (recommended by Frances @ Nightjar’s Jar of Books)
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

Previously Read:

These “girl” books were all pretty enjoyable, which made them difficult to rank. . . but I managed. 🙂

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell – technically, this one shouldn’t be on the list because “girl” isn’t a word by itself but, um, it’s my blog and this is too huge of a book to ignore.
The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes