Recs if you like Brutes...

Horror, dystopia, intimacy, and supporting women's wrongs.

it's giving cunt

God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction

southern gothic; religious horror; intergenerational trauma; dysfunctional families; obsessive love; cannibalism; rot and decay in a small town

the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose “girlhood” are we talking about? i’m thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.

my favorite novels featuring experimental, inventive, unconventional narrative forms and structures

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

Girl you're killin it! Girl I don’t think it’s moving anymore! ♥︎ Books where there is something seriously wrong with her. Like, I'm scared. ♥︎ Maybe she's born with it, maybe she came back wrong ♥︎

unnerving, unsettling, spooky or generally creepy books that take place in summer + have that slow scorching summer dread vibe

A compilation of all of Belletrist’s monthly picks

A good taste of female and queer anger

Girlhood, for better or worse.

Sweltering summer sun will in fact make these books better. Alternate list title: books that remind me of that one heat wave episode of the L Word

also known as first person plural (sometimes referred to as a Greek Chorus), all the books listed here are narrated by multiple characters at once, using “we” instead of “I,” “he,” “she,” or “they.”

Books from Belletrist Book Club and some extra reccos from their IG account (I.e stacked or YA spotlight)

Something uncanny about these girls or their circumstances

Florida is batshit insane, but you're only allowed to make fun of it if you've lived there.