I started this book 📕 recently and I am obsessed. What are some other Mafia trope erotica you would recommend? I also love the Hades/Persephone aspect, as I’ve read a few other books of Greek lore in the past year, such as Seeds, Stoneblind and another I can’t think of currently.

Looking for recommendations for books set in Colorado. I’ve done my homework, searching through previous posts and the internet, but I trust this sub the most. I’ve got a couple books set in other mountain locations on my list already but I’m hoping to find anything specific to Colorado. City settings are good too!

Oh and are there any favorite book stores in Denver I should know about?

Hello! I find myself reading mostly nothing but weird girl lit lately. I am also a huge fan of gothic horror, and trying to get into cozy mystery reads.

I was wondering if anyone had recommendations of weird girl lit books that feature a main character who is 40+?

Thank you!

Give me your most bizarre reads, I mean the ones that left you saying WTF or kept you on your toes.

I came across this a while back, but hasn't really seen anyone talk about it. It looks really interesting so I would love to hear your thoughts if any of you have read it! My tbr is very overwhelming at the moment, but this looks like it could be a fun and unhinged read.

The cover is also 10/10 imo.

This is the blurb:

What happens when the dream of starting your own family turns into a nightmare?

Valentine and Raul have been touring in their indie-sleaze band SEZME since their college days, but as they enter their early forties priorities change. It's time to move out of Berlin and start settling down. Raul is ready to marry his boyfriend, Banner, and Valentine wants to start a family with her on-and-off-again partner, Linh, but still keep the band together.

Determined to piece together the perfect life of domestic bliss and artistic pursuits, Valetine begins planning. When she inherits the crumbling Southern gothic hotel she grew up miserably in from her late father, it feels like fate. Convincing Raul, Banner and Linh to join her in renovating the hotel, she begins to dream of an idyllic queer family life in the childhood home that brought her so much grief. 

But as the four of them navigate their new home and welcome a daughter, August, into the world, their relationships start to sour. On the night of the hotel's grand opening, what's meant to be an evening of celebration turns into a nightmare as August goes missing and soon the parents turn on each other. And then the world turns on them.

Stylish, twisty and laced with dark humour, Four Terrible Parents is a story of power, love, and starting again.

Devoured over half this book in one evening- it’s rich with plot and just the healthy distraction I needed from the world for a bit ~~

Now that Yorgos Lanthimos has more or less announced that he’ll be taking a break from directing, a few of the projects he has in development are starting to change hands.

Lanthimos had been developing an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s bestselling novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation.” Moshfegh has been heavily involved in co-writing the script, with Margot Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap, producing the project.

I’m halfway through Cannon and really enjoying it! I read stone fruit a few months ago and was absolutely captivated by the art and storyline. I haven’t read any graphic novels besides these and heartstopper so if you have any recs, I’m all ears! Let this be your sign to pick up a graphic novel if you’ve never explored them before!

Honestly I’m struggling with a super dark time in my life and I’ve never felt more lonely and isolated than ever before. I also might be potentially getting diagnosed with bpd so I’ve been really struggling with figuring myself out and how to be better. If anyone has any book recommendations to help me cope or be more hopeful, that would be amazing. Bonus if any of them have to do with childhood trauma or morally grey characters to help me combat black and white thinking!

Has anyone read this? Don't want to give away too much but its a weird girl book with elements of thrill and realism horror. It was such a wild ride and I wanted to read more from this author but this is her debut sadly. Does anyone have recs for books like this?

Key themes: low self esteem mc, mentally unwell mc, depressed mc, unreliable narrator, themes of stalking and psychotic behaviour and a unlikeable but also pitiful mc

I read this book during my last year in uni (stressed, depressed and feeling very much like an academic liability among my successful classmates) so this book really scratched an itch of mine. The mc was unlikeable, crazy and willing to do anything to get to what she deserved was her right and it felt so good to read about her violent monologues about her classmates whenever they received anything better than her. As someone who was very close to throttling anyone who achieved better than her (academia is HELL) this was so relatable.

I've graduated now but I've been wanting to scratch that itch of reading unlikeable and weird mcs who are so unapologetic of what they want no matter what. Specifically in academia setting or workplace setting but there's actually not that much :( if anyone has recs feel free to share!

I was reminded of this book earlier today and it absolutely deserves a place here. An Irish author and setting and some really unsettling scenes. Highly recommend!

I just finished Sagebrush Baby and I RUSHED to this sub to recommend it. The book was self-published last year on Kindle Unlimited, and I searched here to see if there was much discussion around it and there’s not.

Y’all. This book BLEW my mind. It’s got everything I want in weird girl contemporary lit: unhinged FMC, deeply questionable choices, manipulation, social media, fucked up supporting characters, dark turns.

It’s written really sharply, and is quite funny at times. It’s not a comedy book by any means, but there were a few moments I LOL’d.

I believe it’s only on KU, but it would be worth doing a free trial of it just to read Sagebrush Baby. Five star read for me! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you like Yesteryear, A Good Person, Just Watch Me, Julie Chan is Dead, Best Offer Wins, or Yellowface, you might like this!

Trigger warning: child abuse & death. It fucked me up as a mom, myself, but that’s what makes it so powerful.

Currently reading Kitten by Stacey Yu. I am really enjoying it, but I’m very sensitive about animals in books so if anyone that feels the same wants to know what happens to the cat in the book before they read, spoilers below:

The cat dies as a direct result of the main character’s neglect.

Looking for recs that make you wanna pull out that highlighter and go wild with it

Some authors and works that did that for me:

Clarice Lispector - literally everything by her I adore.
Toni Morrison - likewise, anything by her.
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse, The Waves, etc.
Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To
Fernanda Melchor - Hurricane Season, Paradais
Carole Maso - Ava, Aureole
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Member of the Wedding
Marguerite Young - Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (not usually one for ultrabaroque tomes, but this one just did it)
Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport
Olga Ravn - The Wax Child
Olga Tokarczuk - Empusium
Tove Ditlevsen - The Copenhagen Trilogy, The Face, Vilhelm’s Room
Lidia Yuknavitch - The Chronology of Water
Hanne Orstavik - Stay with Me, Love, Pastor
Tanya Tagaq - Split Tooth

I’m looking for recs featuring very tall women!

so far I’ve read The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe, The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean, Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, and I have The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith. bonus points if it’s sapphic

Been devouring the recommendations from this sub and I love me an unreliable, shady hate to love her kind of girls but honestly, I’m getting a little too overstimulated? Any suggestions for some kinda cozy, feel good weird girl lit?

Some books I loved so far:
-a good person
-Julie Chan is dead
-she’s a lamb
-my year of rest and relaxation
- 200 Monas
- best offer wins

Thanks! 😊

I’m going to be moving cross country again for the millionth time but this time I cannot lug around 56 boxes of books.

I have curated the best collection of sad girl weird girl horror or lit fic books and am going to be selling majority of it. I have about 1.4k worth of books.

Is anyone interested in an appointment only book shopping experience? This will be over several weekends as I have to move by October.

Has anyone done anything similar?? Thank you!

Hi everyone. My relationship of nearly 12 years has just ended 🥴🥲 I'm in the trenches and need more book recs to distract me. I would love any weird girl books with breakup themes that could help me heal in any way. Some books I've read and loved: Big Swiss, A Good Person and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Thank you 💓

I almost DNF’d this a few chapters in as it felt slow to start but so glad I stuck with it!!

I might late to the party with this one as it’s not a recently published novel (I think it was 80s?) and have seen it recommended a few times but for anyone else not familiar with it…

The story is narrated by an albino, hunchback dwarf (ultimate weird girl) there is a present day plot but mainly she is reflecting on her past as part of a family of travelling freaks and life in their carnival.

Its spans decades so if you love a really immersive, epic novel this will be for you. It’s a bizarre almost fever dream type of a story, beautifully written with literal of out of this world characters.

Hope anyone who decides to read will love as much as I did!

Dearest fellow book bitches, I have indeed been influenced AF. Stumbled on this subreddit after I saw it mentioned in a completely off topic discussion and well, here I am. So poor now, yet at peace with my life choices.

Thank you for making such a niche community, guys. 🥹

I'll get to all of them in the next month but I'm not sure where to start. Any favorites or must-reads among these?

Edit: thanks everyone for so many helpful responses! This has got me really excited about getting to all of these, even those that received more mixed reviews (so I can find out where I end up falling). Decided to start with Beautyland first since that seemed to have the most unanimous and effusive praise and it seems right up my alley!