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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
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
Another of Morrison’s marvels, this story digs into all the emotional touchpoints of friendship, love, and societal roles. It’s the tale of two lifelong best friends and how far they’ll go to repair what is thought lost.
Sula
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
A darkly comic read about an influencer who casually balances a vapid internet lifestyle with an impulsive hobby of murdering the absolute worst men she comes across.
How to Kill Men and Get Away with It
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
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)
Michaelides has created one of the most engrossing thrillers in his debut work, The Silent Patient. As our unreliable narrator guides us through a gruesome murder and chilling revelations, we quickly learn that not everything is quite as it seems. Th...
The Silent Patient
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)
Writers & Lovers follows Casey—a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist—in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Love...
Writers & Lovers: A Novel
Sarah Rose Etter's novel is dark and devious, critical of capitalism, a propulsive story of a young woman working her dream job with a black hole as her companion — literally.
Ripe: A Novel
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.
The Bee Sting: A Novel
Other
The Book of Azrael is the first in the internationally beloved, slowburn, high-stakes epic romantasy featuring a villainous shapeshifter heroine and a tortured God King in a steamy, monstrous world. Where there are gods, there are also monsters... A ...
The Book of Azrael
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her u...
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's grieving the death of her father, avoiding her supportive mom and loving boy...
Pizza Girl: A Novel
Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with a brilliant new epic fantasy that introduces an unforgettable outcast mage caught between two warring empires.
Her magic was stolen. She was left for dead.
Betrayed by those she trusts most and her magic ripp...
Seven Blades in Black
A riveting feminist sci-fi inspired by Chinese history, Iron Widow is a richly imagined, nonstop alien adventure that is wholly unique and positively captivating. A vibrant and unrelenting trio of main characters powers the narrative to a shocking en...
Iron Widow (Book 1)
When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body is not like any she's ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almo...
Bog Queen: A Novel