Recs if you like The Glutton...

Fiction about hyperspecific stuff that'll get you lost in Wikipedia if you're not careful — the more niche the better. Suggestions welcome, but to make the cut, there MUST be a corresponding Wikipedia page!! Links in the comments to get you started.

books where there's gay people and cannibalism

Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...

Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹

historical fiction novels that also have cannibalism in them

for the people who seek out a little bit of cannibalism in their literature 💕 comment recs for me to add to this list/my tbr!!

PLEASE NOTE: THIS LIST MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS IF CANNIBALISM IS THE PLOT TWIST!!

creeping vines, twisting thorns, bleeding hearts and rotted bones...

Books where over-indulgence and over-consumption are central themes.

Historical fiction's haunted, feral cousins. Folk horror, Gothic uncanny, mythic retellings, and formally strange books that make the past feel alive, weird, and slightly dangerous.

Looking for truths about goodness, innocence, and the divine through destruction, canibalism, blood-sucking, that sort of stuff.

Gruesome, transgressive, & affronting books with thematic and intellectual substance!

These books contain cannibalism and this list contains spoilers