“There's no book club??? D:” Lists in progress. I read 100 books a year, and I have some THOUGHTS.
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I just feel like the school should have made y'all read these before you boarded the plane.
books with a similar vibe as the series
I just feel like the school should have made y'all read these before you boarded the plane.
they really missed out on their high school English classes smh
classic, society isn't real, The Wilderness, BCC: shauna shipman sadecki, everything falls apart so much
Lord of the Flies
classics, required reading, BCC: USA, no seriously if you're wondering how the united states started to collapse this has a whole lot of clues in it
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
absolute favorite, multiple timelines, unreliable narrator, snark snark snark, unstuck in time, shauna sadecki quoted this lmao
Slaughterhouse-Five
holy tw batman, sylvia plath is my problematic fave, mental illness, new york city, absolute favorite, unreliable narrator, unhinged women, dark
The Bell Jar
books with a similar vibe as the series
Dark, surreal, unhinged and/or traumatized women, that constant feeling of: “no, seriously. What is even happening?”
absolutely unhinged women, dark academia, unreliable narrator, what is even happening, hella dark, mental illness probably, this is not for everyone but it is absolutely for me
Bunny: A Novel
literally WHAT is going ON, includes meta footnotes, unreliable narrator, absolute classic, i wish i could read this for the first time again
House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
unhinged women, unreliable narrators, what is even happening, includes meta footnotes, locked room trope adjacent, snark snark snark
The Extinction of Irena Rey
dark, unreliable narrator, unhinged women, mental illness probably, what is even happening
The Night Guest
unreliable narrator, speculative fiction, unhinged women, what is even happening, i wish i could read this for the first time again
Biography of X: A Novel
post-apocalyptic, new york city, speculative fiction, immigrant daughter, women surviving men
Severance: A Novel
holy tw batman, unhinged women, hella dark,, what is even happening, unreliable narrator, sometimes i can't support women's wrongs and that's ok
Boy Parts: A Novel
holy tw batman, hella dark, multiple timelines, women surviving men, childhood trauma, includes a cult, unreliable narrator, no seriously this is one of the darkest books i've ever read wtf
Dark Places: A Novel
pls review tw list, rich people, new york city, mental illness probably, unhinged women, dark and surreal, what is even happening
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
major tw, so pls proceed with caution. tags include: dark, hella dark, unhinged women, childhood trauma, monstrous mothers, girlie pop returns to her hometown, whomst amongst us did the murder
Sharp Objects: A Novel
unreliable narrator, unhinged women, what is happening, multiple timelines, women surviving women, love when the scenery is also a character, lana del rey would eat this up