Recs if you like Pure Colour...

books about people transforming into, or being reincarnated as, plants 🌱 (or trying their best to)

suggestions welcome!

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

dreamy, surreal, reflective texts 🤍 composed of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs

Books where the protagonist loses their grip on reality, has strange, unsettling, and/or surreal experiences

my favorite genre. elvia wilk’s essay is the best on what this genre is, but here’s an excerpt: “Weird knowledge does not deny the capacity of the human mind and body to produce knowledge, but it does not reduce the world to human subject experience either. Unlike science fiction—in which there is a rational explanation for everything—and fantasy—where magic explains it all—weirdness hovers between poles of explainability.”

Works of literary fiction that blur the line between poetry and prose.

a collection of really striking covers...cannot vouch for the innards.

masterlist of recommendations from booktuber allison paiges, THE cozy booktuber 💐 (list in progress; will be slowly adding as i rewatch their videos)

Why read a cozy book, when instead you can feel unsettled yet somewhat validated while reading of another women’s journey through the horrors of life?

From a slow descent into madness, covering up murder for siblings, accidentally joining a cult, to insurance fraud over taxidermy - this list covers it all!!

Books that have won Canada's most prestigious literary prize for English-language fiction, since 1980

a lot of eldest sister trauma

my personal literary fiction tbr list