  Recently it has been shown that the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity, by
rescaling the coupling constant as $\alpha/(D-4)$ and taking the limit $D
\rightarrow 4$ at the level of the equations of motion, becomes nontrivially
ghost-free in $4D$ - namely the novel $4D$ EGB gravity. We present an exact
charged black hole solution to the theory surrounded by clouds of string (CS)
and also analyze their thermodynamic properties to calculate exact expressions
for the black hole mass, temperature, and entropy. Owing to the corrected black
hole due to the background CS, the thermodynamic quantities have also been
corrected except for the entropy, which remains unaffected by a CS background.
However, as a result of the novel $4D$ EGB theory, the Bekenstein-Hawking area
law turns out to be corrected by a logarithmic area term. The heat capacity
$C_+$ diverges at a critical radius $r=r_C$, where incidentally the temperature
has a maximum, and the Hawking-Page transitions even in absence of the
cosmological term and $C_+ > 0$ for $r_+ < r_C$ allowing the black hole to
become thermodynamically stable. In addition, the smaller black holes are
globally preferred with negative free energy $F_+<0$. Our solution can also be
identified as a $4D$ monopole-charged EGB black hole. We regain results of
spherically symmetric black hole solutions of general relativity and that of
novel $4D$ EGB, respectively, in the limits $\alpha \to 0$ and $a=0$.
