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Favorite Unhinged Female Protagonist Books
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items A list of my favorite books so far in my favorite genre: unhinged and unapologetic women doing everything from running away to eating people. These books are wild rides… you’ve been warned!
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Crazy Girlies
Girlies With a Taste for 🥩
Misguided/Wayward Girlies
Gillian Flynn Girlies (Yes, They Deserve Their Own Category)
Crazy Girlies
Girlies that sort of lose it by the end. In a very fun/wild/sometimes scary/memorable way.
A woman’s obsession with a cashier deteriorates her
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
A woman is obsessed with her husband and hypocrisy
My Husband by Maud Ventura
A woman’s obsession with her new coworker leads her to dark places
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Motherhood = becoming a dog ? The main character starts to lose sense of reality in her life post-baby as she grapples with new motherhood and the possibility that she is somehow becoming a dog
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
For the girlies who just wanna sleep: Follow this character as she does everything in her power to sleep for a year straight
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Girlies With a Taste for 🥩
Desire for more that just touching flesh.
A woman with specific taste in food shows us why her favorite dish involves the flesh of her latest lover
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
When a young girl experiences an assault, she develops a specific taste for meat and her dream dish involves her assaulter
What Hunger by Catherine Dang
Misguided/Wayward Girlies
Girlies just trying to find themselves.
Is she chasing the last migration of rare birds or is she running for her dark past?
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
A woman who set off with the intention of completing a cross-country road trip doesn’t make it out of her county before she takes up residence in a motel down the road from her husband and explores her own desires instead of the nation.
All Fours: A Novel - July, Miranda: Books
Three women explore their relationships to men and desires while leaving a trail of mistakes in their wake
Three Women - Taddeo, Lisa: Books
Gillian Flynn Girlies (Yes, They Deserve Their Own Category)
She’s the GOAT for a reason.
A modern classic imo. You know how it goes: woman fakes her own death to frame her cheating husband
Gone Girl - Flynn, Gillian: Books
Self-harming journalist reluctantly returns to home town to investigate the murders of young girls but realizes some of the mystery is close to home
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Pessimistic woman revisits the childhood murder of her family to see if her imprisoned brother was really at fault
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn