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Weird Books for Weird Girls 📚

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Olivia Alfe

I love a good weird book. This list has genres from thriller, horror, whatever. All of these books have some aspect of “weirdness” where you may not immediately want to recommend someone to read them because they might think of you differently. That’...

Takes you through the mystery of different houses with odd construction choices 🧐 The author treats you like you’re part of the investigation and the mystery takes the entire book to be fully solved. I loved this for the writing style and plot, eve...

Strange Houses: A Novel by Uketsu, Paperback

A man dealing with the grief of losing his wife while simultaneously being haunted by some kind of evil spirit. This book was very thought-provoking for me, the descriptions of grief and hope were so realistic and the overall writing style was just ...

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

Fast-paced book about demonic possession, really gets you in the headspace of losing your mind.

Come Closer by Sara Gran

This book was one of those that when I told my friends what I was reading they would just smile and nod like “that’s great sweetie”. I liked it for the narrator’s tone. It was almost like someone was coaching me as the reader through the plot. A se...

Anybody Home? - Seidlinger, Michael J.: Books

Old school horror, a boy scout troop goes camping on an island and a man with a weird disease shows up. With no adult left with them and the authorities too afraid to be exposed to the disease, they’re left stranded. I could not put this book down. ...

The Troop by Nick Cutter

A girl living with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend (who she hates) develops and obsession for eating fish eyes. But soon the subject of her obsession starts to be her mom’s boyfriend’s eyes.

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

The meat industry is struggling because animal meat is no longer edible. Instead, humans are farmed for their meat and there are laws against treating them like humans. But what happens when our morally conflicted main character is gifted a woman “sp...

Tender Is the Flesh: Bazterrica, Agustina: 9781982150921

A girl believes that she is an alien from another planet being forced to live in the “machine” that is our society. The origin of her fantasy is what is most disturbing. Absolutely loved this book, it was horrific and disturbing and traumatizing. If...

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

A hurricane ravages a Florida theme park and leaves it flooded and in isolation for five weeks. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even hu...

FantasticLand: A Novel by Mike Bockoven

A collection of short stories about family and friendship, sex and intimacy, and belonging and individuality. All with a strange combination of humor and horror.

Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata

A disease called The Scream, and when you get it you can no longer eat or sleep, you slowly go more insane and scream until you can’t stand being alive.

They All Died Screaming by Kristopher Triana

I loved this book just because it was so original, but it was mildly infuriating. Shortly after a young couple moves into a house in the woods, a man and his family knocks on their door. He claims to have grown up in the house and asks to show his ...

We Used to Live Here: A Novel by Marcus Kliewer

Four girls deal with the guilt of the murder of their friend when they were 10 years old. Now, as adults, the women look back on their trauma and try to piece together the events of that day before the statute of limitations is up - or else they will...

Penance by Kanae Minato

Horror/thriller meets social commentary in which four Native American men are being haunted (literally and figuratively) by an event from their past. This entity wants revenge and violence.

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones