Scroll down to our previous post about the hundreds of Girl Titles in the publishing world. Book after book with "girl" in the title.
I griped about the use of the G-word as a throw-back to the bad old days when women were easily dismissed and occupied lower rungs on the cultural ladder.
But, hey! Girl titles sell books. The first "Girl" may have been Susanna Kaysen's 1993 Girl, Interrupted. But it wasn't until 2005, with Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, et.al., that the trend seemed to take off. Next came Gone Girl and Girl on the Train.
Now it's a full blown trend. Publishers want in on it—so they're busy RENAMING OLD TITLES, hoping to breathe new life into older books. Take a look ...
New Girly Titles
For Old Books
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
Girls Who Dug Rocks
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Little Girls
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Girls Wearing Corsets
My Beloved World
by Sonia Sotomayor
The Girl Who Made It All the Way to the Supreme Court
Where'd You Go Bernadette
by Maria Semple
The Girl Who Left Her Daughter (But Kept in Touch)
Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
The Girl Who Runs with Sharp Objects
Wild
by Cheryl Strayed
The Girl Who Went for a Walk and Then Felt a Lot Better
Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg
The Girl Who Kicked Corporate Butt
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
The Girl with Prejudice & the Man with Pride, or Vice Versa
Obsessive Genius: The Inner Life of Marie Curie
by Barbara Goldsmith
Hey, Girl—You're the Bomb
I Am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai
The Girl Who Damn Well Better Win the Nobel Prize
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kid
The Girl Who Owned a Slave … Who Was Also a Girl
Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
Climate Change Girl
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Girl Who Watched Fungus Grow and Became Famous
The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
The Girl in Cabin 10