CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.
It seems as if slapping the word “girl” on a book title can guarantee the book to become a bestseller. Girl-driven thrillers are flying off the shelves and many have been adapted into movies. The book publishing industry has gone girl crazy.
Topping the list is Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy comprising of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, that have sold in excess of 80 million copies worldwide. Unfortunately Larsson never had the chance to savour the fruits of his books’ success as his books were published posthumously.
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy
Gillian Flynn’s 2012 thriller, “Gone Girl,” has sold in excess of 15 million copies worldwide. Paula Hawkins was on the verge of bankruptcy and was contemplating giving up as a writer when her 2015 novel “The Girl on the Train” captivated readers worldwide and made her a multimillionaire. To date, the runaway bestseller has sold in excess of 20 million copies worldwide, making Hawkins one of the highest earning authors in the world.
Still not convinced? Then take a look at the proliferation of “girl” titles:
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters by Gail Giles
Girl, Stolen by April Henry
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonsen Lee
Push Girl by Chelsie Hill
The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis by Elle Thornton
The Girl Before by Rena Olsen
Spitfire Girl by Lily Baxter
The Girl Next Door by Selene Castrovilla
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
The Girl Who Never Came Back by Amy Cross
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
Little Girl Lost by Brian McGilloway
The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson
The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Margaret Pemberton
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom
Girl Online by Zoe Sugg
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari
The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
Live Girls by Ray Garton
Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
A Respectable Girl by Fleur Beale
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig
Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
Girl. Perfect by Jo Jenkins
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Something Girl by Beth Goobie
Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez by Peter Benchley
City Girl by Patricia Scanlan
The Girl Who Ran Away by Joan G. Robinson
The Luckiest Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron
Daddy’s Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
Girl About Time by Kerstin Gier
The Girl with a Baby by Sylvia Olsen
The Girl Death Left Behind by Lurlene McDaniel
Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines
The Girl Who Loved the Wind by Jane Yolen
Girl at War by Sara Novic
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
The Girls by Emma Cline
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
The Second Girl by David Swinson
The American Girl by Kate Horsley
Girl in the Dark by Marion Pauw
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
This Girl by Colleen Hoover
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
Local Girls by Caroline Zancan
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
Girl in the Afternoon by Serena Burdick
The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
The Girl Before by Rena Olsen
Little Girl Gone by Gerry Schmitt
Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Nowhere Girl by Susan Strecker
The Girl from the Savoy by Hazel Gaynor
Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
Girl in the Shadows by Gwenda Bond
Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Girl on a Plane by Miriam Moss
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
I have listed just 100 titles in the above list. I guess I have proved my point and I am sure you are all getting girl tired!