Recs if you like Beauty Queens...
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
alphabet soup group
Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.
deaf / hard of hearing characters in books
These books either have a main character or main side character who's important to the plot with deaf and/or hard of hearing rep! 🙉👂🔕 I haven't read all of these, but I have read a good chunk, so I'm always happy to talk with anyone about them & recs are always appreciated! 💜
desert island books
no like….. literally
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
complex female friendships
RIP… you would have loved Booktok
Books that blew my mind in the 2010s that are still famous to me.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch!!! I was there when it was written, so trust me on these deep cuts (shout out to Ash and Wildthorn for introducing me to lesbianism in 2009)
Lights, camera…love!
Books that are set during reality show or any type of beauty pageants.
the weight of expectations
Fae & Flame Society: Deaf/Hard of Hearing
For the Fae and Flame Society book club, often our spring book bingo includes a square for 'Deaf/Hard of Hearing Representation.' Here is a list of books as such!
Books That Deserve Special Editions
Every daggone book out there is "special" these days 🙄 but I need these, publishing houses! NEED!
(note - for series I've only included the first book)
her-stories
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