The Girl from Nongrim Hills is a 2013 fiction novel by Indian author Ankush Saikia.

Saikia came up with the idea for The Girl from Nongrim Hills after coming up with the idea of "money changing hands in a hotel room in Shillong" and came up with two of the book's characters shortly afterwards.

[2] He chose to include elements such as extortion, arms smuggling, and kidnapping as they were "only too common in the Northeast" and believed that it would "provide the basis for a good noir story".

[2] He chose to set the story in Shillong as he was familiar with the area and saw that several scenes in the book would work well with the city.

[6] The New Indian Express and Deccan Herald also gave positive reviews for The Girl from Nongrim Hills, and both papers praised the book for its characters and pacing.