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items Books I’m totally obsessed with—every genre, every vibe. These are the ones I actually recommend (and secretly wish I could read again for the first time). If you love deep characters, emotional twists, or just need an escape, you’ll find something h...
A couple with loads of emotional baggage move to an isolated small town where everyone avoids them + weird stuff begins to happen. the end shocked me even thogh you know it's coming
The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard, Paperback
Follows the rotting discontent of Dorotea after she offs herself, doomed to wander as a ghost and come to terms with her choice.
Hollow Heart by Viola Di Grado | eBook
A girl looking to find how people can continue to live while knowing that they don’t matter she turns to scientist David Starr Jordan and finds herself obsessed with his story and constant optimism
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Vengeful ghosts and a bride’s disappearance at a plantation wedding
When the Reckoning Comes: A Novel by LaTanya McQueen, Paperback
A classic. Victor Frankenstein succeeds in surpassing human limits and creates life. Written by 19yo Mary Shelley one summer because she was “bored”.
Frankenstein (Signature Classics) by Mary Shelley, Paperback
An orphan is punished for theft by being made a sin eater, having to consume ritual meals for the deceased in order to spiritually adopt the sins of deceased.
Sin Eater: A Novel by Megan Campisi, Paperback
High society vampire hires a human blood maid. Said vampire countess finds herself interested in her new hire, marion.
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson, Paperback
Girl in a french village falls into a perpetual sleep; we follow surreal connections between dream and reality. Told in hazy snippets that really immerse you in the dreamscape.
Madeleine Is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Paperback
The feminine urge to rot away. A young Norwegian woman moves into a dilapidated house where the boundaries between reality and hallucination begins to dissolve
Paradise Rot: A Novel by Jenny Hval, Paperback
a woman throws herself into a lifestyle of radical lust + pleasure after her marriage tails.
Blood Red - Gabriela Ponce
Trauma, family dynamics, and the experience of being the family scapegoat as a teenage girl.
Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin, Paperback
Short stories ((for ADHD girlies) about the ways in which we say goodbye. Very human and emotional, but not, like, depressing yknow
The Goodbye Process: Stories by Mary Jones, Paperback
Filled with yearning and melancholy, a young woman decides to run away from her life behind her and leave earth to become part of a colony on a distant planet.
Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma, Paperback
Let me tell you about the author rather than the short stories in this book. Amparo Davila grew up next to a cemetery, her memories go back to seeing bodies driven past in carts, igniting a curiosity with the dark and grim
The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, Paperback
One of the most deeply disturbing sickeningly beautiful things I have ever read. I am rotten to my core thinking about this.***major content warnings, please look up context before diving into it. Some very graphic and unsettling scenes***
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride, Paperback
Coming of age short story about a girl with a colorful imagination & love for all things antique & vintage🧺💕
Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith, Paperback
Five different women and their interconnected paths to a surreal paradisal home after excaping men in an oppressive patriarchy why have never seen anyone talk about this? amazing feminist classic but do check, tws if needed
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur, Paperback
Escaping her home. A girl moves into a bohemian hotel in Manhattan filled with gamblers, drunks and actors whilst finding herself in the chaos of strangers <3 i suggest this read!!
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick, Paperback
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. I loved this book so much I ...
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, Paperback
The book that partly inspired the vanishing half ! Tells the story of two women. One who chooses to pass to gain social mobility and another who stays and accepts her identity. A really interesting book
Passing by Nella Larsen, Hardcover
again, difficult to articulate my love for it. an utterly musical coming-of-age novel. if you feel like joyce isn't for you just read this and let the language sit with you (or read dubliners first and then give it a go)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Paperback