Recs if you like Nerve Damage: A Novel...
I love it when women
...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.
2026 releases
lit fic and horror, mainly, and mostly books by women, nonbinary & trans writers, basically mostly non-cis-men
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
books for after you’ve watched obsession (2026)
you wanted this. you wished for this.
big work in progress + taking suggestions!!!
this list generally contains psychological, female-led&male-inspired horror books that explore obsession, loss of autonomy, unbalanced power dynamics, and blood/gore is always welcome, of course.
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* lit expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks, who is no longer on Pagebound. 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!
emily austin's recommended books
canadian author emily r austin's recommended books, as taken from her website!
