Recs if you like Go Gentle...
High Femme Fiction
pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)
A Pink Sapphic’s Bookshelf
the coquette femme aesthetic is of the utmost importance
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.
If you want to disappear for a while
Atmospheric novels that feel like stepping into another country, another era, another interior life.
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!
Book Riot Darlings
I've listened to every episode of the Book Riot Podcast post-2021. Below are Rebecca & Jeff’s recurring faves, or books that I just associate with them through osmosis. Disclaimer: this list starts once you’ve read the complete works of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Percival Everett, and, of course, Marilynne Robinson.
The Drama with Museum Heists
"I'll take you away from here."
new york-core
set in nyc/new york
Books I Read Instead of Sleeping
Books I couldn’t put down and stayed up until ungodly hours to finish.
