Recs if you like Mrs Caliban...
Books that feel like an A24 film
Books that are atmospheric, emotionally unsettling, beautifully written, a little weird, and linger long after you finish them.
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.
Really Short Standalone SFF Reads
Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story
Cover Porn: The Lit Fic Edition
Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic
Witches, Weirdos & Other Women of Taste
A little feral, a little fashionable, and wholly uninterested in being understood. From housewives who fall in love with sea creatures to grandmothers who commune with the cosmos. These stories are eccentricity, rebellion, and taste.
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This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated).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!
Female Rage: The Library
Social commentary under patriarchy
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.
weird love stories; literary monster-lovin
idek man. i love this genre and vibe though
5.0 Human ❤️ Non-Human Romance
Why settle when you can have a monster obsessed with you.
Monster, Mermen, Alien, Entity, Demons, Vampires, Wolf, Orc, ect.
Horror, Fantasy, Romance, and Smut.
Straight & queer
Standalone & series Only first books in series were added because why would you read a second book if you didn't like the first.
Between two books
Books from the Florence and the Machine book club @betweentwobooks on IG
(I am not the book club admin, just a fan, and these are not all the books but I will add them all in soon, I promise)
Overdue Podcast readalong
Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013
Non-Humans & Empathy (Fictional Creatures &Beings)
One of several Non-Humans & Empathy -themed lists by @Myth.Ink (See also: Fiction, GNs/Manga+, Non-Fiction, Youth Titles, & the Official @Myth.Ink Curation) | This list is the The FANTASTICAL NON-HUMANS, including fictional interactions and considerations of interactions between fantastical unrealistic non-human beings of all types (dragons, monsters, gods, angels, demons, vampires, etc) and humans, empathy and lack thereof. | Suggestions more than welcome!
Short books
Short books to boost you to your reading goal. A lot of these are from ‘mckenna loves content’ on YouTube
Women and the creatures of the void
Criteria for this list- Emotional connections, sometimes support, sometimes harm between women and darkness. Emotional upset, magic, delusion. Not just simple reality here. Could be a figure or just a concept.
These are not love stories
Weird Women Quick Reads
Books in the "weird girl literature" genre with 200 pages or less
💜 yarnandbooks
Water and Creatures and Grief
Books with themes of water, the sea, sea creatures, otherworldly creatures, grief, longing, loss.
Satire in Pink: Contemporary Fiction
Women protagonists in satirical contemporary fiction. Suggestions are welcome!
Wierdos book club
Reading list
alienation
all about it in one way or another
- please leave recommendations
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