Recs if you like What Am I, A Deer?...

🍃✨ books where the real setting is somebody’s unsettling brain/perspective (with exceptional prose quality)

This collection is THE reason I haven’t cancelled BOTM; these books are criminally underrated & deserve more attention! Litfic lovers, these are for you.

The Offset is a collection from Book of the Month (BOTM) featuring “a series of books from indie and international voices for those who seek artistic expression over commercial appeal, elevated prose over action-packed plots, or the unconventional over the mainstream.”

Will be updated routinely.

All the 2026 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles

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

"A series of books from indie and international voices for those who seek artistic expression over commercial appeal, elevated prose over action-packed plots, or the unconventional over the mainstream."

This isn’t just “weird girl lit,” it’s weird girl books with a MESSAGE. with something to say and doing it in a weird way!! No shame to the angry woman weird girl books but that ain’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking space, magical realism, weird kinks as metaphors. I’m talking new takes on the form, books that do things differently. If you know, you know. These are some of my favorite types of books and nearly everything on this list I’ve read and loved.

the equivalent of when my sister says “maybe santa will bring it for christmas” to my niece

(all the books i picked up at the bookstore but couldn’t let myself buy)