Recs if you like Água Viva...

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

weird little books you can read in one sitting

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.

works of literary fiction that use the stream of consciousness narrative technique (popular in post-WWI modernist literature) to express the natural flow of thoughts, feelings, memories and sensory impressions.

often fragmented, unconventional, experimental in terms of structure, punctuation and syntax.

recs welcome!

Our mental space can hold way more space than we think. So can our hands. This is for that tired, anxious and cool adult, go feed your soul and your creativity.

I guess you could call it liminal...

Introspective books by people who observe a lot, ponder a lot, feel a lot, and write about it. Creative memoir, self-indulgent navel-gazing, or "wan little husks" (as Joyce Carol Oates once put it)... whatever you personally think about autofiction, including whether or not it really is a genre, this somewhat experimental form of writing most definitely gives both writers and readers a chance to engage in narratives in a different way.

From Patagonia to the Caribbean.

Inspired by Florence + The Machine's new album

Books from before 2000 that fit the more modern genre/descriptor of "weird girl literature"

💜 yarnandbooks

A list of classics from the women & afro-descendant folks of Brazil.

latin baddies

ruined my life fr

My favorite translated works and books I want to get to!

My favourite selected novels and tbr. Some with heavy themes and others with fantasy elements, but you will always leave with some kind of impact and knowledge :)

when the prose is so achingly gorgeous it Hurts

Wander through stories that travelled across languages, borders, and cultures to find their way to you.

Books that were featured on an episode of Backlisted.