Women called "Girl" on the cover

Books about women over 18 that are not about their childhoods. These women do not have their names on the cover. They are a "Girl."

Updated March 7, 2023
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Bachelor girl
Alkemade, Kim van
Paper Book
NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Bachelor Girl plunges the reader deep into life during the Jazz Age...and the revealing of other secrets and confessions will keep readers up all night looking for answers." --Booklist (starred review) From the...
The baddest girl on the planet
Frese, Heather, 1974-
Paper Book
WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE "This sun-and-salt-kissed coming-of-age story reads like a wry, honest chat with a close friend."--Jaclyn Fulwood, Shelf Awareness Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has...
The Berlin girl
Robotham, Mandy
Paper Book
***A Globe and Mail Bestseller.*** The heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of a world on the brink of war from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife. Berlin, 1938: It's the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling...
Dead girl in 2A
Wilson, Carter (Novelist)
Paper Book
From USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson comes a psychological thriller about forgotten strangers, dark pasts, and a secret so big it just might destroy everything. They meet on a plane, but nothing about this situation is coincidental... This flight will take them somewhere they...
An earl, the girl, and a toddler
Riley, Vanessa
Paper Book
OMag.com & Bibliolifestyle Most Anticipated Romances of the Year PopSugar Best Romances of April Publishers Weekly Top 10 Romances of Spring ELLE Canada Summer's Best Romances A witty and moving...
The final girl support group
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick "The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes."-USA Today A can't-miss summer...
Fly girl a memoir
Hood, Ann, 1956-
Paper Book
An entertaining and fascinating memoir of "gifted storyteller" (People) Ann Hood's adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and...
The forgotten girl
Youers, Rio
Paper Book
Nominated for the 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. A dark mystery unfolds in Rio Youers's riveting thriller,The Forgotten Girl. Harvey Anderson is a twenty-six-year-old street performer from New Jersey. He enjoys his peaceful life, but...
The French girl
Elliott, Lexie
Paper Book
They were six university students from Oxford -- friends and sometimes more -- spending an idyllic week in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway . . . then they met Severine, the girl next door. For Kate Channing, she was an unwelcome presence, undermining the group...
Galway girl
Bruen, Ken
Paper Book
The latest Jack Taylor novel from the Godfather of Irish noir Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual,...
The girl before
Delaney, JP
Paper Book
THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER * Soon to be a BBC One and HBO Max limited four-part series, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show; Misbehaviour) and multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor David Oyelowo (Selma; Les Misérables)   "A pitch-perfect...
The girl from Summer Hill : a Summer Hill novel
Deveraux, Jude
Paper Book
The first novel of New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux's breathtaking new series set in Summer Hill, a small town where love takes center stage against the backdrop of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.Enter Elizabeth Bennet. Chef Casey Reddick has had it up to here with men. When she...
The girl from the garden
Foroutan, Parnaz
Paper Book
An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran. For all his wealth and success, Asher...
Girl gone viral : a novel
Rai, Alisha
Paper Book
In Alisha Rai's second novel in her Modern Love series, a reclusive investor goes viral, shoving her into the world's spotlight--and into the arms of the bodyguard she's been pining for... OMG! Wouldn't it be adorable if he's her soulmate??? I don't see any wedding...
Girl in disguise
Macallister, Greer
Paper Book
From the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie "Macallister is becoming a leading voice in strong, female-driven historical fiction. Exciting, frightening, and unspeakably moving..."--Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingways's Girl For the first daring female...
The girl in his shadow a novel
Blake, Audrey, active 2020
Paper Book
An unforgettable historical fiction novel about one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her. London, 1845- Raised by the eccentric surgeon Dr. Horace Croft after losing her parents to a deadly pandemic, the orphan Nora Beady knows little about...
The girl in the castle
Montefiore, Santa, 1970-
Paper Book
The Irish Girl was previously published as The Girl in the Castle. Ireland. The early twentieth century. Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war. Read their story -- and see why JOJO MOYES says that "Nobody does epic romance like Santa...
The girl in the picture
Barrett, Kerry
Paper Book
Two women. One house. Centuries of secrets. East Sussex Coast, 1855 Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter. One day, the na ve eighteen-year-old meets the mysterious and handsome Edwin on the beach...
The girl in Times Square
Simons, Paullina, 1963-
Paper Book
A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century. What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent, find love. Adrift in bustling New York City, the most...
The girl of his dreams
Leon, Donna
Paper Book
Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. In The Girl of His Dreams when a friend of Brunetti's brother, a...
Girl waits with gun
Stewart, Amy
Paper Book
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the US's first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp doesn't quite fit the mould. She towers over most men, has no interest in...
The girl who could move sh*t with her mind
Ford, Jackson
Paper Book
'LIKE ALIAS MEETS X-MEN . . . I LOVED IT!' Maria Lewis 'A MODERN ACTION MOVE THAT JUST HAPPENS TO BE IN BOOK FORM' The Fantasy Inn Full of imagination, wit and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane adventure from an...
The girl who lived twice
Lagercrantz, David
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Lisbeth Salander must face the most important battle of her life, and will finally put her past to rest in this Milliennium series thriller that will "leave Salander's legion of followers clamoring for more" (The Wall Street Journal). Mikael Blomkvist...
Girl with a pearl earring
Chevalier, Tracy
Paper Book
In seventeenth-century Delft, there's a strict social order -rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant, master and servant -and all know their place. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry, and the care of his six...
The girl with braided hair
Coel, Margaret, 1937-
Paper Book
In 1973, Liz Plenty Horses was accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement, known as AIM, to the FBI after the death of one of their members. She went into hiding with her baby daughter, never to be seen again. Now, a skeleton with a bullet hole in the back of the skull has been...
The girl with the dragon tattoo
Larsson, Stieg
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The thrilling first book in the Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander: "Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck...
The girl you left behind
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn 1916 French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When her town falls into German hands, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As his obsession deepens, she will risk everything in the hope of seeing...
Girl, 20
Amis, Kingsley
Paper Book
Girl, wash your face stop believing the lies about who you are so you can become who you were meant to be
Hollis, Rachel (Event planner)
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD Do you ever suspect that everyone else has life figured out and you don't have a clue If so, Rachel Hollis has something to tell you: that's a lie. If you have ever said any of these things to yourself . . . ...
Goblin girl
Romanova, Moa, 1992-
Paper Book
Things seem to be looking up when Moa Romanova -- broke, depressed, and living in a squat above an old store -- matches with a very famous celebrity on a popular hook-up site. Not only does the 53-year-old man like Moa -- he also immediately validates and motivates her in a way that not even her...
Gone girl
Flynn, Gillian
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestselling Author -- On a summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Amy disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Under mounting pressure from the police...
The hidden girl
Millar, Louise
Paper Book
One cold March morning, a removal van arrives at Tornley Hall in Suffolk. Will and Hannah Riley have been waiting a long time to adopt, and Hannah is obsessed that this new 'dream' family home in Tornley, will improve their chances with social services. She has given up her career at a human rights...
Honey girl
Rogers, Morgan
Paper Book
Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others! A...
How to build a girl
Moran, Caitlin
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein! The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. ...
The it girl
Ware, Ruth
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "claustrophobic spine-tingler" (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend's murder...
The Italian girl
Murdoch, Iris.
Paper Book
Last girl ghosted
Unger, Lisa, 1970-
Paper Book
Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this utterly original thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game. She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick...
Luckiest girl alive
Knoll, Jessica
Paper Book
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue-blood fianc, she s close to living the perfect life she s worked so hard to achieve."
Metro girl
Evanovich, Janet.
Paper Book
The brilliantly funny, unputdownable new novel from Janet Evanovich, No. 1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum books Buckle your seat belts. Number One bestselling author Janet Evanovich is moving into the fast lane with Metro Girl, a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot...
The new girl
Walker, Harriet
Paper Book
Pizza girl
Frazier, Jean Kyoung
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Coco Mellors, R. F. Kuang and Yomi Adegoke, this electrifying debut and TikTok sensation charts the unlikely relationship between a pregnant teenage pizza delivery driver and a stressed-out, middle-aged mum. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza...
Poster girl
Roth, Veronica
Paper Book
"Poster Girl is a captivating story full of twists and turns--and no easy answers. I couldn't put this book down." --Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Forgotten  From #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth, a...
The quiet girl
Kosa, S. F.
Paper Book
A captivating tour de force untangling trauma, memory, and the justice we serve when everyone else has turned a blind eye. Good girls keep quiet. But quiet girls can't stay silent forever-and the consequences are sure to make some noise. When Alex arrives in Provincetown to patch...
Razor girl : a novel
Hiaasen, Carl
Paper Book
The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but...
The Russian girl
Amis, Kingsley
Paper Book
The sunflower girl
Chiofalo, Rosanna
Paper Book
Rosanna Chiofalo returns with another evocative, beautifully written novel set against the stunning vistas of Tuscany . . .   In the fields around Tuscany in summertime, sunflowers grow in profusion--wave upon wave of gold and green standing tall against the Italian...
This girl
Hoover, Colleen
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover's bestselling Slammed series comes to its gripping conclusion. There are two sides to every love story. Now hear Will's. Layken and Will's love has managed...
The trapped girl
Dugoni, Robert
Paper Book
In this #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, Tracy Crosswhite must first identify the victim to catch the killer. When a woman's body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to...
Weather girl
Solomon, Rachel Lynn
Paper Book
Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station's news director, to give Ari the...
The wedding girl
Wickham, Madeleine
Paper Book
A novel about the build-up to an elaborate wedding and a bride whose scandalous past threatens to catch up with her just four days before the big event.
The windup girl
Bacigalupi, Paolo.
Paper Book
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a...

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