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Books Featuring Unhinged Women (complimentary)
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items Details include: unreliable narrators, unhinged women, people who are Over It, mental illness, beautiful prose, existential dread, “wtf did I just read and how do I find more books that feel exactly like this?” after you finish the final chapter and ...
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dark, but the twisted kind
i'm mentally ill and these made me feel seen
mommy issues and/or daddy issues (supportive)
dark, but the twisted kind
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The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. ...
Bunny a book by Mona Awad
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller - New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Book...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation a book by Ottessa Moshfegh
One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 An incendiary debut novel from a brash new talent--a pitch-black comedy, both shocking and hilarious, which fearlessly explores sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century. "Hallucinogenic,...
Boy Parts a book by Eliza Clark
NOW A SERIES ON STARZ STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY * BETTY GILPIN * DeWANDA WISE * GABRIELLE CREEVY * with BLAIR UNDERWOOD "Staggeringly intimate...Groundbreaking." --Entertainment Weekly "A breathtaking and important book." --Cheryl Strayed "Extraordin...
Three Women a book by Lisa Taddeo
National Bestseller Named a must read by NPR, People, Vanity Fair, Electric Literature, Nylon, Alta Journal, CrimeReads and Debutiful Named a most anticipated book by Elle, The Millions, Bustle, Lit Hub, Dandelion Chandelier, Zibby Mag, Bookpage, and...
The Extinction of Irena Rey a book by Jennifer Croft
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions. One of NPR's Books We Love. "Told by machines from the future, Blackburn's idiosyncra...
Dead in Long Beach, California a book by Venita Blackburn
The newest student at the elite St. Ambrose School for Girls must navigate a sinister social clique and the treachery of her own mind in this "complex psychological thriller" (CrimeReads) that is perfect for fans of Megan Miranda and Layne Fargo. Whe...
The St. Ambrose School for Girls a book by Jessica Ward and J. R. Ward
A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" story (Carmen Maria Machado). "Um, holy shit...This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer." --...
A Touch of Jen a book by Beth Morgan
Finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2023 New York Times 2023 Critics' Pick New Yorker Best Book of 2023 (Essential Read) NPR Best Book of 2023 TIME Must-Read Book of 2023 Bookshop.org Best Book of 2023 Chicago Public Library Favorite Book of 2023 Ms. Magazine Best Book of 2023 It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away...
Y/N a book by Esther Yi
The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school. Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, en...
Dark Rooms: A Novel
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night. Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, b...
The Night Guest
i'm mentally ill and these made me feel seen
Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Sui...
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition) a book by Jeffrey Eugenides
When X--an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter--falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recogniz...
Biography of X a book by Catherine Lacey
In 1967, after a session with a doctor she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital that was as renowned f...
Girl, Interrupted a book by Susanna Kaysen
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath. "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plat...
The Bell Jar a book by Sylvia Plath
"[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange."--Roxane Gay "In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire. I couldn't put it down."...
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories a book by Carmen Maria Machado
mommy issues and/or daddy issues (supportive)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gi...
The Hours a book by Michael Cunningham
NOW AN HBO(R) LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker fa...
Sharp Objects a book by Gillian Flynn
"[A] blistering psychological thriller." --The New York Times Book Review "A compelling debut that fizzes with tension from start to finish, blending the subtle erudition of literary fiction with the drama and suspense of the very best thrillers. Mas...
Bad Fruit a book by Ella King
A National Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller A New York Times Editors' Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor, and Literary Hub From the critically ac...
Rouge a book by Mona Awad
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A juicy melodrama cast against the sultry, stylish imagery of North Africa in the fifties.” —The New Yorker The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the ac...
Tangerine: A Novel