Recs if you like Nerve Damage: A Novel...
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.
I love it when women
...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.
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This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated).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!
2026 releases
lit fic and horror, mainly, and mostly books by women, nonbinary & trans writers, basically mostly non-cis-men
girls just wanna have ✨gore✨
feminist horror, femgore, or whatever you want to call it, whether they’re fighting the patriarchy, unpacking the horrors of girlhood and womanhood, or becoming the monstrous feminine themselves, these books put women at the center of the nightmare — and honestly, what could be more fun? (:
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.
emily austin's recommended books
canadian author emily r austin's recommended books, as taken from her website!
Trigger Warning: Lyricism
If you adore a finely written sentence beholding a dense inner-monologue and also ignore trigger warnings, please read on as this list may be for you
Obsessive Women
"Weird girl literature" featuring obsession
💜 yarnandbooks
Is there something on my face?
List of books with book covers containing blurry faces, obscured faces, or distorted faces
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