Recs if you like Sexing the Cherry...
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
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
AI Authors
Books by people who use artificial intelligence in the writing and/or publishing process. Sources are linked in the comments.
Weird Women of the Late 20th Century (1945-2001)
Lives of outsiders rendered in sharp prose style. Descendants of Shelley, the Brontes, and Woolf; forebears to 'Weird Girl Lit'. Title refers to the authors, the subjects of the work may not always be women. Focused on novels published between WW2 and 9/11, with a few memoirs and short story collections.
And we won't stop dancin' til we die
just dance, gonna be okay Books inspired by "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
experimental lit
books with an experimental structure or narrative choices, metafiction, oulipo, postmodernism, etc.
Books with hyper-sensory dreamlike spaces
I guess you could call it liminal...
Postmodern literature
Books that exhibit key traits of, or helped develop, the Postmodern literary movement.
Not including criticism or theory.
Research trigger warnings before reading.
(Recommendations welcome)
200ish pages of weird
Ever want to feel uncomfortable but not for too long? Short weird books that can be read in one weekend (or sitting if your only hobby is reading like me). Weird can mean weird girl, horror, questionable choices, uncomfortable and anything all around and in between. These books are not meant to be scary, but horror elements are within many.
books in "why be happy when you could be normal?"
Books saved the narrator in "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal" by Jeanette Winterson. Books may yet save us. This is a list of all the books mentioned & referenced in the novel. Feel free to comment any that I missed
Queers To Quell My Fears
Stellar queer mind and gender-bending fiction with a touch of madness, sadism and the surreal✨️🏳️🌈
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