Thirty Girls is a 2014 novel by American writer Susan Minot.

[1][2] The novel alternates between the perspectives of Jane, an American writer in writing about women kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony and that of Esther Akello, a former kidnapping victim.

[3] Minot had previously written about victims of kidnapping in a McSweeney's article titled "This We Came to Know Afterward".

[5] In its review of the novel, Kirkus Reviews praised the novel's prose, but criticized the plot, writing: "[...] there is a secondhand feel to Esther’s story, which plays fiddle to Jane’s navel-gazing.

"[6] The novel was included on the list published by The Economist of the best books of 2014.