apart / a part
literary (or literary-leaning) fiction focused specifically on isolation, disconnection, loneliness β and what they teach us about life and humanity.
ft. recs from the community!






High Femme Fiction
pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)






Service95 Book Club β¨
Aka Dua Lipaβs reading list. Everyoneβs fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.
I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account π






Asian Authors
An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.






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This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated).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!






Women vs The Void






women in translation β Β°ββ.ΰ³ΰΏ*:ο½₯
ladies love to write all around the world!






Books with hyper-sensory dreamlike spaces
I guess you could call it liminal...






woman vs void
A list of books I have come across when looking for books that fit this theme. Please leave a comment if there is something I should add.






Japanese fiction to read on the train






Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.






japanese literature
japanese books i've read or been meaning to read






travel the world through these books
a list of books that catapult you right into a different historical & cultural context and part of the world because of how vivid the writing is.






femcel classics
#joke, inspired by https://post45.org/2023/07/femcel-heteropessimism






books set in Japan / by Japanese authors






japanese literature by women
japanese literature written by women






Little Japan
This is my Japanese literature list: Little Japan. Most of these books sit on my bookshelf in my little corner of the world. Enjoy!






unhinged women that shaped my frontal lobe π§
these books shaped my mid 20s, still do now.






Women in Translation You Need to Read
Stories by women from across the world, brought to us through translation.






have you ever felt as if you don't belong anywhere
...and just want to live in a place where no one knows you? - one million yen girl (2008)
books about loneliness, melancholy, alienation, and feeling adrift





