A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
by Holly Jackson
A high schooler reopens a closed murder case for a school project and uncovers secrets in her small town. A twisty, young-adult mystery. Read the full description
Best for: Teens and adults who like whodunits
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is #33 on BookWard's Top 100 books for September 2026, with a BookWard Score of 71 out of 100.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: reading interest over the past 12 months
Sources: Open Library’s public reading-log and ratings data (dump of 2026-08-31), Wikipedia page views and Wikidata. Monthly counts are exact; they show relative interest among readers of these public sources, not total readership.
Ranked against the other books on this list, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder’s reading interest has run from #10 to #73 over these 12 months. Interest rank blends shelf adds, Wikipedia page views and rating activity, each compared with the other 99 books that month.
Shelf adds by month
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was added to Open Library readers’ shelves 917 times in the past 12 months, peaking in September 2025 with 139 (82% above its monthly average of 76). Over the latest three months (Jun 2026 to Aug 2026) shelf adds were up 7% on the three months before. 87% of the adds were “want to read”, 7% “currently reading” and 6% “already read”.
Want to read Currently reading Already read
Wikipedia page views
Its Wikipedia article was viewed 313,488 times in the past 12 months, peaking in June 2026 with 77,587 views. The latest three months were up 61% on the three before.
Source: Wikimedia monthly page views for the article A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
Adaptations
- A Good Girl's Guide To Murder (television series), 2024
Adaptations are listed from Wikidata; a release date near a rise in the charts above is context, not proof of a cause.
What the data says about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- Moderate swings. Monthly shelf adds averaged 76 with some ups and downs.
- Busiest and quietest months. September 2025 was its busiest month (139 adds), about 4.1 times its quietest, December 2025 (34).
- Against its genre. It had 24% more shelf adds than the average Thriller and mystery book on this list.
- Share of the list. It accounts for 0.9% of all shelf adds recorded for the Top 100 over these 12 months, #36 of 100.
- Its age. First published in 2019 (7 years ago), it is older than 17% of the books on the list.
Each finding is computed from the public data above and shown only when the numbers support it.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder on the Top 100: rank history
First charted in September 2026. The chart gains a point with every monthly update, so its peak, climbs and falls will show here as they happen.
| Month | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #33 | 71 |
Is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder rising or falling?
Cooling It ranks lower this week than over the past year, so interest is softening from its recent level.
On Open Library, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ranks #44 this week, #38 this month, and #45 over the past year. A longer bar means a higher position. Comparing the three windows shows whether readers are arriving faster than the book's long-term pace. Readings as of 2026-09-30.
Why A Good Girl's Guide to Murder made the Top 100
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder made the list mainly on momentum (+29.2 points) and being read right now (+20.1 points). Its smallest contribution is rising (+0.2). The BookWard Score blends five public signals, each scored from 0 to 100 and weighted as shown.
The reading-now, rating and rank signals come from Open Library’s public data, not from BookWard’s own readers. The score measures reading interest, not quality or sales. How the score works.
Open Library reader stats for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Source: Open Library public reading logs, as of 2026-09-30. BookWard’s own monthly snapshots are added to the picture, and anonymous BookWard reader data will be layered in as the community grows.
More readers have A Good Girl's Guide to Murder open right now than 64% of the other books on this list. These counts come from one public source, so they show relative interest rather than total readership.
Where it sits among Thriller and mystery books
It is #1 of the 5 Thriller and mystery books on this month’s list.
About A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
A high schooler reopens a closed murder case for a school project and uncovers secrets in her small town. A twisty, young-adult mystery.
Why it’s here: It is a page-turner that hooks mystery fans quickly.
Best for: Teens and adults who like whodunits
At a glance
- First published
- 2019-05-02
- Genre
- Thriller and mystery
- Also described as
- young adult fiction, mystery fiction
- Length
- about 431 pages (the median across its editions)
- Original language
- English
- Languages
- editions in 10 languages listed on Open Library
- Editions
- 38 on Open Library
From Open Library and Wikidata public records. Missing rows mean the records do not list that fact.
Themes
- Amateur detective work
- Teen secrets
- Media and justice
What reading it is like
Fast and twisty, told partly through project logs and interviews.
At about 431 pages it is a longer read: roughly 9 hours at an average reading pace (about 250 words a minute, 300 words a page). Audiobook and edition lengths vary.
Good to know
First in a series. Teen-friendly, but it deals with murder, drugs and assault.
The premise
For a school project, Pip reopens the case of a local girl's murder that police closed years ago. The more she digs, the more secrets she finds in her small town.
What you’ll get
- A twisty teen mystery
- Podcast-style investigation pages
- A clever, fast plot
You might skip it if you dislike stories involving violence and crime.
Pairs well with: One of Us Is Lying · And Then There Were None
Keep exploring the chart
Also on the chart at #32 and #34
Questions about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
What rank is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder on the Top 100 books?
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is #33 on BookWard's Top 100 books for September 2026, with a BookWard Score of 71 out of 100.
Is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder rising or falling?
Cooling. It ranks lower this week than over the past year, so interest is softening from its recent level. On Open Library, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ranks #44 this week, #38 this month, and #45 over the past year.
Why is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder on the Top 100?
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder made the list mainly on momentum (+29.2 points) and being read right now (+20.1 points). Its smallest contribution is rising (+0.2).
How many people are reading A Good Girl's Guide to Murder right now?
Open Library's reading logs show 367 readers currently reading A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, 5,734 who want to read it and 275 who have logged it as read (as of 2026-09-30). These are counts from one public source, not all readers.
How much interest has A Good Girl's Guide to Murder had over the past year?
917 Open Library shelf adds in the past 12 months (peak September 2025, 139); latest three months up 7% on the prior three; 313,488 Wikipedia views in the past 12 months (up 61% over the latest three months); Adaptations on Wikidata: A Good Girl's Guide To Murder (2024). Figures come from Open Library and Wikipedia public data.
Who is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder best for?
Teens and adults who like whodunits.
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How we know
This page is built from public data: Open Library’s dated reading-log and ratings dumps, Wikipedia page views, Wikidata, and BookWard’s own monthly Top 100 snapshots. The interest rank blends shelf adds (45%), Wikipedia page views (30%), rating activity (10%) and, for months where a snapshot exists, BookWard’s own score (15%), each as a percentile among the Top 100 books. Every month shown is real data; nothing is estimated. Rankings reflect reading interest, not quality or sales, and can be affected by data gaps. Last updated September 2026. Read the full methodology.
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