Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book with "Girl" in the title.

If you STILL haven't read Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train, now is your chance!!!!

I know it's trite and some readers are just OVER it, but there are SO MANY good books with "Girl" in the title!! I don't know what I'll choose.


Listopia list is Here: A book with Girl in the title.

Some ideas from my TBR:

Girl, Serpent, Thorn
The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Brown Girl in the Ring
Almost American Girl

I didn't think I had that many girl title books but I found 14 on my TBR!

I might read Girl Interrupted. That's one of those books that I sometimes think about but never actually try to find it to read.

Girlhood seems like a good one.

Although I think I might go with Girl in Pieces . I tried reading it this year but it was too triggering. I'm hoping to try again.

I have The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found on my bookshelf, so I'll probably read that. However, I also bought it at an independent bookstore, so I may need to look for something else.

There are SO many options for this prompt for me!

Luckiest Girl Alive
Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Good Girl Complex
I'm the Girl

UGH. Pet peeve. Ah well.

Adult
Girl Waits with Gun
Girl, Woman, Other
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Final Girl Support Group
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Poster Girl
The Girl with All the Gifts
The It Girl
Pizza Girl
Invisible Girl
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

YA
Good Girl, Bad Blood
If I Was Your Girl
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Middle grade
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Picture books
Send a Girl! The True Story of How Women Joined the FDNY

Graphic books
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It's True
Roller Girl
The Girl from the Sea

Non-fiction
Lab Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Other
The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing To Say On Every Dubious Occasion

The Diary of a Young Girl and Brown Girl Dreaming are excellent

More nonfic:
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

I have a TON for this. (Including the plural because, well, the word "girl" is in the word "girls," lol)

The Dress and the Girl
A Girl of the Limberlost
Black Girls Must Be Magic
Fly Girl: A Memoir
She Gets the Girl
The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends
Gone Girl
Sawkill Girls
Girl, Woman, Other
Wilder Girls
The Downstairs Girl
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
The Silence of the Girls
The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary
Girl Online

Tree Girl by Bolivian author Ben Mikaelsen is set in Guatemala in the 1980s and is the fictionalised account of a teenager who survives the massacres which caused the tragic death of tens of thousands of Indigenous Guatemalans. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is currently on sale at Amazon

Robin wrote: "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women is currently on sale at Amazon"

That's the one I'm going to read, though I'll get mine from the library since they have it.

I've just finished reading The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola and really enjoyed it. Radium Girls is also a good read as mentioned already.

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

Im going to read The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women too.

I still need to read I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.

Also on my TBR:
Brave Girl, Quiet Girl
The Girl in the Tree

Books I would recommend:
The Unremembered Girl
The Black Stallion and the Girl
The Girl In Between
Honey Girl
Metro Girl
Speed Girl
Gone Girl
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy Bundle: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
An Anonymous Girl

Nonfiction:
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Sophia Al-Maria.
Just picked this up from library's Qatar/World Cup display - dawned on me that it fits this prompt.

There are so many titles out there to fulfill this prompt. My question is: Does the plural count as well as in "Girls"? Because "Lilac Girls" has been on my TBR for a long time now. I wonder, if I could fit it in here?

Laura wrote: "There are so many titles out there to fulfill this prompt. My question is: Does the plural count as well as in "Girls"? Because "Lilac Girls" has been on my TBR for a long time now. I wonder, if I ..."


sure!

I'm definitely counting "girls" as containing "girl".

From my TBR:
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Southern Girl by Renée J. Lukas

thanks to this prompt I can finally get The Windup Girl off my TBR

If you are looking for a BIPOC author, The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America by Joseph Bruchac is looking good to me.

Nadine in NY wrote: "A book with "Girl" in the title.

If you STILL haven't read Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train, now is your chance!!!!

I know it's trite and some readers are just O..."

I didn't finish Gone Girl; I had passed the twist, but then found out the ending (I was reading it around the time the film came out), and the ending made me so mad I didn't finish it! I also haven't finished Girl on the Train, but I've got that in for the DNF prompt on the Book Riot Read Harder thing.

Some other suggestions (all on my TBR):

The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (plus the sequels)
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (I'm accepting the plural to work for the prompt)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Next Girl to Die by Dea Poirier
The Austen Girls by Lucy Worsley (if I remember correctly, this is fiction)
Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman
Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young (appears to have 'girls' sequels too)
The Girl Least Likely by Katy Loutzenhiser
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (third in a series)
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood by Diana McLellan
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (I actually have read this one, but can't remember it very well, so might use this one for the prompt)
I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander
The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor
The Marvelous Mirza Girls by Sheba Karim
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
The Dead Girls Detective Agency by Suzy Cox
Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Girl in the Headlines by Hannah Jayne
The Girl King by Mimi Yu
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
Bug Girl by Benjamin Harper

A couple from my Kindle:

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (a stretch, but if you include Gallagher Girls, Book 1 as a subtitle, it gets you there)

Odd Girl Out by Timothy Zahn (3rd book in the series, but he fills in enough backstory to catch up, and there's not much sci-fi in this thread)

Golden Girl and Silver Girl - Elin Hilderbrand
Dream Girl - Laura Lippman
Pretty Girls- Karin Slaughter
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane and Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
A Girl Called Rumi by Ari Honarvar

I'll give a try the Twenties Girl:)

I just read Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter which was excellent if you like the mystery/crime genre. I will say it does get graphic at times if that is triggering. She also wrote Girl, Forgotten which is on my TBR.

Girl A
The Crow Girl
Girl in Snow
Dead Girls Dancing
Invisible Girl
One of the Girls
The Good Girl
The Girlfriend
The Girl with All the Gifts

Non Fiction
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
The Diary of a Young Girl

I found D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II at the library yesterday, so I think that'll be my choice.

I've started Girl in Pieces .

Tried reading this one earlier this year but I had such a hard time with it given how close the subject matter is to me but I'm determined to finish it.

The Final Girl Support Group
Final Girls
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Girl in the Well Is Me
The Only Black Girls in Town

Does anyone think A Good Girls Guide to Murder would fit this prompt? Not sure if that plural s disqualifies it but it’s on a lot of recommendation lists. Please let me know what you think.

I believe singular or plural is fine.

It's Good girl's guide to murder, so it's singular :) I've read Good girl, bad blood for this one.

I read Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy. Fascinating.

I read Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen for this prompt.

I had finally settled on reading The Downstairs Girl for this category, and I was looking forward to it. I've been wanting to read that book for a while now, and happy to finally have an extra push to get to it. And then ... my book club chose Girls with Bright Futures for our February book. So, I guess I'm reading that instead!

Just finished The Butterfly Girl. Recommended.

I am planning to read Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

I read The Nothing Girl, byJodi Taylor (Chronicles of St Mary's)

I read The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Vol. 1 and I highly recommend.

I read The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion. 5 stars. A lot of fun.

The Next Girl by Karla Kovach
Girl alone by Blake Pierce

Finished God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished Girl, 11 for this prompt. It's listed as a suspense thriller. It kept me wanting to get to the next chapter or next reveal. Fairly new (to me anyway) author's first book (2021). Be warned: it is about a serial killer who targets girls.

I read The Girl With All the Gifts for this one!