Recs if you like Brutes...
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, listed in the description, or offhandedly said.
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This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated).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!
Weird girl lit
Horror, dystopia, intimacy, and supporting women's wrongs.
Sun Bleached Flies
God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction
yesss mama as you should
it's giving cunt
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
books like ethel cain
southern gothic; religious horror; intergenerational trauma; dysfunctional families; obsessive love; cannibalism; rot and decay in a small town
weird girlhood(s)
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.
narratively and structurally inventive novels
my favorite novels featuring experimental, inventive, unconventional narrative forms and structures
[Nervous laughter] Oh no, girl
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 ♥︎
summer gothic
unnerving, unsettling, spooky or generally creepy books that take place in summer + have that slow scorching summer dread vibe
Belletrist Book Club
A compilation of all of Belletrist’s monthly picks
just girls being girls
Obsessive Women
"Weird girl literature" featuring obsession
💜 yarnandbooks
Rage Club 🕷️
A good taste of female and queer anger
an ethel cain curriculum
featuring dysfunctional families, troubled relationships with religion, underlying decay, the southern gothic, and just a sprinkling of cannibalism
For fans of Yellowjackets
Girlhood, for better or worse.
Hot Weather Reads ☀️❤️🔥
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
Books I want to read while sunbathing
Books for spring and summer
Weird girls
Something uncanny about these girls or their circumstances
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