“These are books that — like Girls – explore what it is like to be young and hungry — hungry for love and hungry for sex, but most of all, hungry for recognition and hungry for adulthood. Ultimately, the girls in these books, like the girls of Girls, are hungry to become the women they will one day be.”
- Ten Books to Read Now That HBO’s Girls Is Back by Claire Miye Stanford

![“While [Lena] Dunham’s lady-centered wry comedy may be singular in today’s television line-up, the world of literature is home to a multitude of books with the same appeal as Girls, books that feature a certain kind of female protagonist (usually one coming of age) or a certain kind of female narrator (pointed, self-deprecating, and ultimately wise).”
- Ten Books to Read Now That HBO’s Girls Is Back by Claire Miye Stanford](http://25.media.tumblr.com/71d738efe8966ee6a0225797b144d983/tumblr_mgf18nlIAo1r6xvfko1_1280.jpg)
