Recs if you like Bastard Out of Carolina...
an ongoing sapphic masterlist of books (1600+)
in progress
Basically, a huge list of every book I ever heard features sapphic characters.
I have not read all of these, so I cannot be sure of the amount of the time on page of the sapphic characters or of the quality of the books.
Some of these I do not plan to read at all, since they are not my style. If you feel like a book doesn't belong here, let me know.
For my favs / read, check out my other lists & shelves.
Open to suggestions for more titles.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Queer Classics: English Literature Edition
The queer agenda has taken over your English lesson and the compulsory reading list to make you disgustingly educated and gay af 🏳️🌈
Based off having to study older books that have monumental impact 💥 Will keep updating the curriculum, CLASS IS IN SESSION 🔊
sapphic books for litfic girls
my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically
Please Don't Ask Me What I'm Reading
Books with weird, strange, absurd, or just hilarious titles Please comment your own suggestions
The Big List of Banned or Censored Books
A list of Banned or Censored books (from around the world) that I want to read and form my own opinions about...
for my fellow southern queers
queer and trans books set in the southern US! i’d do anything for my fellow southern queers💗
Southern Gothic
Disturbing Novel Iceberg - Tier 3
Tier 3 of the Disturbing Novel Icberg. Stories are more graphic with darker themes.
Note: some books are missing due to lack of access.
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.
Sun Bleached Flies
God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction
weird girlhood(s)
the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose “girlhood” are we talking about? i’m thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.
A Comprehensive List of Gothic Literature
A comprehensive list from Dr. Rebecca Marks (ig:culture_dumper). Includes English, American, Irish, Scottish, German, French, Spanish and Latin American Gothic stories.
the gross and horrifying
lots of gore and/or taboo topics trying to add mostly based off what i’ve read
50 States, 50 Books by Women
List from Sadie Hartmann's Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women
Southern Studies
US Southern Studies Books [in progress]
Amazing Autofiction
The best of autofiction - all the humor, drama, and introspection!
Girlie pops that survive the horrors
They're cute, they're smart, they're surviving this sh!t
queer classics
lgbtq books before 2001
Mother Wounds 🕯️
Stories of mothers and daughters tangled in love, grief, and ruin.
Spotify, play Ethel Cain
Ethel Cain’s bookshelf. Haunted churches, dirt roads, and hymns gone sour.
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