Recs if you like Comfort Me With Apples...
All Grimm Brothers Retellings, specifically
No Hans Christian Andersen on this list. Retellings based on...Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella, The Goose Girl, Snow White, Snow White + Rose Red, Rapunzel, Hansel + Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, King Thrushbeard, The Pied Piper, The Six Swans, The Brave Little Tailor, Bearskin, Puss in Boots, Allerleirauh, The Wolf + the Fox, The Pink, Maid Maleen, Brother + Sister, The Golden Goose, The Six Swans, etc. As always… no Gaiman
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Well, you have options
Book titles that represent reasons you might go to the doctor, what you might say to each other, or what treatments might be offered to cure your ailments. It's up to you to decide what is what😉
(This is not a commentary on these books or authors! The focus of this list is purely on the titles---but if you find a favorite new read here, I'd love to know🤭)
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Weird Gurls Read Weird Horror
the gurls NEED to read horror books 💋 i wouldn’t say these are all horror but that’s left to the reader to make that assumption
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Really Short Standalone SFF Reads
Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story
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assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
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Horror in < 200 pages
Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.
Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.
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Feral and Hysterical: Works by Women
List of recommendations included in Sadie Hartmann's Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women.
Pairs with 50 States, 50 Books by Women list.
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Mysteries and Thrillers
This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕
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One-Sit Wonders
One sitting. Thirty strange stories. Zero wasted pages.
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When Domestic Spaces Turn Deadly
When homes, nurseries, kitchens, suburbs, etc. become the most dangerous places of all
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books to read in one sitting
short books around 200 pages or less that you can easily read in one sitting! for those who just want a quick read or those trying to hit their reading goals ! i tried to include a variety of genres including lit fic, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, thriller, etc.
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crime: being an unreliable narrator
If being an unreliable narrator was a crime, these characters would be in trouble
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Girl Boss? More Like System-Buster #8M2026
Fiction and nonfiction that question patriarchy, critique power, and imagine new futures for anyone tired of individualistic feminism. From ghosts to economics, magic to memoirs, these books challenge everything, and make you think, feel, and maybe even rage a little.
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weird girl literature
for those who don't conform to the norm.
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Short, But Not Sweet: Strange Books < 300 pages
I love novellas and short stories, I feel like it really gives authors a place to flex their talents on just how much they can reveal of a character or world in minimal page space. These are some I feel really pack a punch. They are weird, unique, and can be read in a day.
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Women vs The Void
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the horror of being a woman
will anybody love me when i'm older?
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🚫 There's absolutely nothing behind this door 🚫
Retellings of the Bluebeard legend
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Feminine rage and all things good.
Just books I thought helped show the primal feminine rage we are all experiencing right now in the dumpster fire 🔥 of a planet
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The Horrors of being a Woman
If it weren't for misogyny, these books wouldn't exist.
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