Recs if you like Vladimir...

these books use (literal) hunger as a political tool to speak to women’s oppression, repression and desire, whether through overt cannibal metaphor, speculative dispatches, or more subtle nuances of appetite in literary fiction. these women are hungry for something more, whether they’re allowed to act on it or not.

recommendations welcome!

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Coming of age novels end when the girl figures out who she is. Coming of Rage begins years later, when the woman realizes what's been done to her and is finally old enough to know better. Some of these women savor it slowly. Others empty the bottle and make a Molotov cocktail. All of them are done apologizing. Always taking recs - See pinned comment!

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

“I just want to be perfect.” - Black Swan

fictional accounts of artists who are defined, in some way, by their relentless obsession with their craft.

and yes, linguistics lives in the English department even in a magical setting

books with covers where there’s a body and no head

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

Books where the protagonist is around or older than 50

Books with iconic and crazy twists

eat them alive

Healthy, mutually respectful relationships. JK, picture the exact opposite of that and then throw in three cups of lyrical, haunting bleakness.

List formerly known as weird girl elders. "Weird girl literature" books with characters that are over 30.

💜 yarnandbooks

Uh Oh! Friend Clearly Not the Victim in Drama Being Described! (Suggestions welcome!)

Books about stories, writing, reading, and books in general

Please let me know if there are any I should add

in the burned house i am eating breakfast. / you understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, / yet here i am.

house fires in fiction - the power to cleanse, to destroy, to reveal, to vanquish