Goddess Girls Books in Order
Goddess Girls contains 28 books, published between 2010 and 2022. The first book is Athena the Brain (2010) and the newest is Artemis the Hero (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
Also searched as Goddess Girl.
- Books
- 28
- Published
- 2010–2022
- Confirmed
- 23 of 28 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,941 in 20 of 28 books
- Reading time
- 82–124 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,941 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 20 of 28 titles with a page count on record.
Goddess Girls is a children's series by Joan Holub that puts the Greek pantheon through school. Athena the Brain (2010) opens the run, and each of the 28 books takes a figure from Greek myth as its title character, among them Persephone, Aphrodite, Artemis, Medusa, Pandora and Pheme. Suzanne Williams co-wrote 5 of the books. The series reached Artemis the Hero in 2022 and has been dormant since.
How many Goddess Girls books are there?
Goddess Girls has 28 books, released between 2010 and 2022.
Goddess Girls Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 28 Goddess Girls books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Athena the Brain2010 · confirmed 3/42010–3/4
- 2Persephone the Phony2010 · confirmed 3/42010–3/4
- 3Aphrodite the Beauty2010 · 156 pages · confirmed 3/420101563/4
- 4Artemis the Brave2010 · confirmed 3/42010–3/4
- 5Athena the Wise2011 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/420112563/4
- 6Aphrodite the Diva2011 · confirmed 2/42011–2/4
- 7Artemis the Loyal2011 · confirmed 3/42011–3/4
- 8Medusa the Mean2012 · confirmed 3/42012–3/4
- 9Pandora the Curious2012 · 248 pages · confirmed 3/420122483/4
- 10Pheme the Gossip2013 · confirmed 3/42013–3/4
- 11Persephone the Daring2013 · 247 pages · confirmed 3/420132473/4
- 12Cassandra the Lucky2013 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/420132563/4
- 13Athena the Proud2014 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/420142243/4
- 14Iris the Colorful2014 · 254 pages · confirmed 3/420142543/4
- 15Aphrodite the Fair2014 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/420142243/4
- 16Medusa the Rich2015 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/420152243/4
- 17Amphitrite the Bubbly2015 · 278 pages · confirmed 3/420152783/4
- 18Hestia the Invisible2015 · 244 pages · confirmed 3/420152443/4
- 19Echo the Copycat2016 · 261 pages · confirmed 3/420162613/4
- 20Calliope the Muse2016 · 244 pages · confirmed 3/420162443/4
- 21Pallas the Pal2016 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/420162723/4
- 22Nyx the Mysterious2017 · 271 pages · confirmed 2/420172712/4
- 23Medea the Enchantress2017 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420172562/4
- 24Eos the Lighthearted2018 · 258 pages · confirmed 2/420182582/4
- 25Clotho the Fate2019 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/420192242/4
- 26Persephone the Grateful2020 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/420202563/4
- 27Hecate the Witch2021 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/420212883/4
- 28Artemis the Hero2022 · confirmed 3/42022–3/4
Do you have to read Goddess Girls books in order?
You should read the Goddess Girls books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Goddess Girls book also stands alone.
Where to start with Goddess Girls
Start with Athena the Brain (2010), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Goddess Girls book?
Artemis the Hero (2022) is the newest Goddess Girls book released so far.
Is there a new Goddess Girls book coming?
No next Goddess Girls book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Goddess Girls at a glance
- Paused
- No new Goddess Girls title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Goddess Girls books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,941 pages across the 20 of 28 books with a recorded length, a median of 255 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Goddess Girls books, 25 of 28, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 28 titles, 23 are credited to Joan Holub and 5 to Suzanne Williams.
What the Goddess Girls books are about
24 of the 28 Goddess Girls books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: greek mythology is tagged on 23 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Greek mythology 23 of 24 books
- Children's fiction 19 of 24 books
- Greek Goddesses 16 of 24 books
- Schools 9 of 24 books
- Greek Gods 4 of 24 books
- Aphrodite (Greek deity) 3 of 24 books
- Fantasy 3 of 24 books
- Gods 3 of 24 books
- Athena (Greek deity) 2 of 24 books
- Goddesses 2 of 24 books
- Gossip 2 of 24 books
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