Recs if you like A Real Animal...
Cover Porn: The Lit Fic Edition
Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic
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.
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!
Center of Fiction First Novel Prize 2026
The Center of Fiction’s longlist for the first novel prize. 180 submissions narrowed to 19. Winner announced December 8th 2026
