New York, April 31, 2016 (United Press Irrational) – For the last eight years, the #1 best-selling book in America has had the word Girl in its title:
- 2009 – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- 2010 – The Girl Who Played With Fire
- 2011 – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
- 2012 and 2013 – Gone Girl
- 2014, 2015, 2016 – The Girl on the Train
(Note: Current NY Times bestseller What She Left Behind squeaked by due to the assumption that “She” represents a “girl”)
As a result, American publishers have announced that henceforth “all books will be required to have the word Girl in their title.”
Martin Bogus, CEO of Random Penguin Books, commented, “I do not read books myself, but pay others to do so, and therefore consider myself an expert. This is clearly what the public wants.” He has ordered the immediate re-issue of the following classics:
- To Kill a Mocking Girl
- Of Mice and Girls
- The Girl in the Iron Mask
- The Great Girlsby
- and Homer’s The Girliad
More titles will follow.
Ha! It is true. Bit self absorbed of us, I’d say. 🙂
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Face it, we’re more mysterious than guys so we make for a better story. 😉
Yeah, who wants to read Gone Guy? No mystery there. ;>)
Ha! Now that’s funny 🙂
The Hardy Girls…A Tale of Two City Girls…Girl-i-vers Travels…Around the Girl in Eight Days…I got millions of em’ 🙂 Thanks for the laugh!
…guess I’m screwed. Can’t get “Girl” to fit in “THE LIFE & TIMES OF AN INCORRIGIBLE”
Strange Girl in a Strange Land, Something Girly This Way Comes
Around the Girl in 80 Days, War of the Girlds…
Didn’t he also write “The Girl Machine”?
I heard they’re gonna reissue another one: The Fault In Our Girls.
Lol! This was funny. 😂
I LOVE this! I am just about to start Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Oops, I mean The Girl of Wildfell Hall 🙂
and make sure to lookout for my upcoming NYT bestseller, The Girl Who Cried Wolf
I know the last part is tongue and cheek orrrrrr ….. I think it is tongue and cheek. I always have trouble going from serious to sarcastic….. seems like I am the fish that takes the bait.
Creative. I like it. I always knew something needed to done about “The Hardy Boys.” Why were they swallowed up by Nancy Drew? I would love to see some competition between her and :The Hardy Boys Girl Friends.”
Hey, I want to play too! “Girl of the Rings.” “Huckleberry Girl.” “The Poisonwood Girl.” “Schindler’s Girl.” “A Girl of Two Cities.” “About a Girl.” “Much Ado About Girls.” “Girl and Toad Together.” “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Girl.” (I could go on and on)
Thanks, Mitch; this one’s a keeper!
The Girliad sounds like a must read. And I’m very partial to that mini-masterpiece The Girl of San Luis Rey.
War and Girls
Catch-Girls
The fault in our Girls