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Favorite Books About Girls: October 2022

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Welcome readers,

October 11 was the International Day of the Girl Child and, to celebrate, we're discussing our favorite books about girls!

If you'd like to read our previous weekly discussions of fiction and nonfiction please visit the suggested reading section of our wiki.

Thank you and enjoy!

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· 3 hr. ago

Top classic is: Anne of Green Gables

I cannot imagine a person who didn't read it and like it.

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level 2
· 2 hr. ago

A true gem of a book.

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level 1
· 3 hr. ago · edited 2 hr. ago

Interesting question thanks. Looking back the just few months I've read quite a few that really stood out

-We Begin at the End

-Carrie

-Doctor Sleep

-Klara and the Sun

-The Girl With All the Gifts

All great books but the ones that really drew me into caring about her were We Begin at the End and The Girl With All the Gifts.

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level 1
· 3 hr. ago
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When I was a girl I read The Secret Garden and A Little Princess over and over. But my all-time favorite girl book growing up was Harriet the Spy!

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level 1
· 2 hr. ago

Gone With the Wind seems like a fitting one. Many people remember it as a war story but Scarlett starts out having everything done for her and wants nothing to do with work but by the end becomes very self-sufficient and independent. It was honestly ahead of its time in that regard

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level 1
· 2 hr. ago

Having been reminded of Anne of Green Gables, I have to add:

  • Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott

  • The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Both are very different girls (and different again from Anne Shirley), but both are incredibly heartwarming.

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level 1
· 2 hr. ago

Lately, I’ve been wanting to read books about complicated female friendship. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume set a high bar when I read it in the 90’s. We Run the Tides is the closest I’ve come.

Ten Thousand Doors of January is amazing.

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level 1
· 2 hr. ago

Little House on the Prairie.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

The Dear America books.

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level 1
· 1 hr. ago

Roald Dahl. Matilda. Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series.

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level 1
· 1 hr. ago

Little Women (by Louisa May Alcott), Virgin Suicides (by Jeffrey Eugenides), the Tiffany Aching books (by Terry Pratchett), Matilda (by Roald Dahl) and The Book Thief (by Markus Zusak) were the first titles that came to mind.

I remember that when I was little I quite enjoyed reading about Madeline (by Ludwig Bemelmans), Pippi Longstocking (by Astrid Lindgren) and George (from the Famous Five, by Enid Blyton). I was already an adult when I read Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes series, but I still enjoyed it.

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level 1
· 1 hr. ago

I’m enjoying the suggestions that are books about girls that are written by women.

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