Recs if you like The Bridegroom Was a Dog...
the feminine imagination in east asian literature
a collection of inventive, incisive, and invigorating works of contemporary and speculative fiction by women writers of East Asia and its diaspora.
๐Akutagawa Prize Winners๐
Japanese Akutagawa Literary Award Winners that have been translated into English. For the full list of recipients, see the Bungakushinko website or Wikipedia (links in comment).
Strange Transformations: Canid Style
Fiction featuring humans turning into dogs* wild and domestic (animals including dogs, coyotes, wolves, foxes, jackals) โ and vice versa.
This is not a werewolf or shapeshifter list.
SISTER LISTS: Strange Transformations: Insect Style | Strange Transformations: Avian Style | Strange Transformations: Small Mammal Style
Romancing Things That Are Not Human
Sort of another take on "weird girl lit", these are some books where people are in love/obsessed with/somehow involved with a thing that isnt Human. From strange monsters to literal planes, in some way, someone is trying to be in relationship with a thing. Not necessarily romances.
