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Disturbingly Good Unhinged Women Fiction Reads
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items There is a niche for everyone! Delve into the world of unhinged women's fiction where the characters are crazy and the stories are captivating. Find something new to add to your bookshelf or reread a book you forgot about. These reads are sure to fil...
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Urban Fiction
Psychological Fiction
Comedy
Thriller
Literary Fiction
Other
Urban Fiction
A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system
Nightcrawling: A novel
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a 2018 novel by American author Ottessa Moshfegh. Moshfegh's second novel, it is set in New York City in 2000 and 2001 and follows an unnamed protagonist as she gradually escalates her use of prescription medications...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
An unhinged mother/daughter duo await you in the pages of White Oleander
White Oleander|Paperback
Raw and real, follow Winter through the streets of NYC and the dizzying highs and crushing lows of a fast paced, high stakes life on the edge.
The Coldest Winter Ever|Paperback
This atmospheric novel is about an artist named Paz who returns to California to replace Romy, a gifted young artist who died in suspicious circumstances. Paz becomes obsessed with Romy and uncovers a disturbing truth
Utopia|Paperback
In Eunice De Souza’s 2001 novel, middle-aged protagonist Rina Ferreira is not the only chaotic character. Much of the mayhem in Dangerlok is caused by the city of Mumbai, which is as good as a secondary character in the 95-pager.
Dangerlok
Psychological Fiction
Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers...
Boy Parts: A Novel|Paperback
A blistering anti-romance novel
Acts of Desperation|Paperback
Many Sylvia Plath books fit into this genre. The Bell Jar is a great choice
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
A very intriguing read about a woman who works at a dog shelter. Very much woman vs the void
Sad Janet: A Novel
An oddly peaceful yet chaotic read
She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)
A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration.
I Love Dick (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Comedy
The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.
Bunny: A Novel
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: If you feed a starving woman, what will she gro...
Supper Club
A good choice if you like some humor with your crazy
With Teeth: A Novel
A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect . . . nothing short of riveting. Miranda July is great with the unhinged
All Fours: A Novel
Truly a fever dream of a read
Beauty Queens
The hilarious and razor-sharp story of how one girl went from geek to patriarchy-smashing criminal mastermind in two short years, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud. Def want to add this to your TBR
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Thriller
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water.
My Sister, the Serial Killer
One of the most iconic unhinged women
Gone Girl
A classic read about a woman that seems to be slowly losing her mind
The Woman in the Window: A Novel
A very nice choice for a quick read
Don't Call Me Crazy
Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious.
Eileen: A Novel
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Skillful and addictive
Sharp Objects (Sharp Objects: A Novel)
Literary Fiction
A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unf...
Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
Conversations with Friends is the 2017 debut novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney, about two young women who become involved with an older couple in Dublin's literary scene. You will not want to put this down.
Conversations with Friends: A Novel
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. A classic read for t...
Play It As It Lays (FSG Classics)
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.
The Vegetarian: A Novel
From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth. Feel and live every page of this book
Territory of Light: A Novel
The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. Follow this riveting story from front to back cover
The Days of Abandonment: A Novel
Other
This will def be like any other book you have read
Nightbitch: A Novel|Paperback
Girls Against God is a revolutionary take on female rage and is enriched with feminist and queer theory.
Girls Against God: A Novel
The main character Rin is quite unhinged and it progresses as the book goes on
The Poppy War: A Novel (The Poppy War, 1)
So delicious that it feels illicit
Luster: A Novel
Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer’s Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.
Allegedly
A 29 year old Taiwanese PHD student Ingrid researches too hard and accidentally upends her whole life
Disorientation: A Novel