Recs if you like The Wax Child...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

horror books that revolve around religious ideals or institutions from the mainstream to the mythic. while the title of this list is derivative of the bible, this focus of this list is not on any one religion or religious group.

Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.

Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.

This is a list of fictionalized and nonfiction accounts of witch trials. Please feel free to recommend books, especially ones from authors of colour as this niche interest of mine lacks diversity in that respect!

Weird, mostly girlys going through different unique life adventures. Supporting girlies (the girls, theys and thems) rights and wrongs.  Regina George screaming down her hallway into her room hunting down the Burn Book

Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...

Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹

winners, shortlist and longlist (this will be a very long list indeed). complete from 2016-2026

Long list for International booker prize 2026

weird/wicked/gory/gothic/strange/surreal books by women, translated into english.

I love horror and I'm really interested in seeing how the genre shows up in different countries and parts of the world. I am making a list of all the books I have currently collected that take place in countries other than the United States, England, Canada, and Australia. I will add as I find more. Currently, there is just one book per country. For those with more, I tried to add less commonly known books. The current countries included in the list: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Columbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Greenland, France, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Motswana, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, Wales

bitch what were YOU doing at the devils sacrement...

is it hot in here or is it the witchcraft accusations

ladies love to write all around the world!

Books with bizarre concepts

Witchy books, but make them queer! This list will span genres, including everything from romance to weird girl lit fic. Here you will find found covens, curses against homophobes and transphobes, and many norms being broken! Disclaimer: this list is still very much a work in progress as I hunt down queer witchy books (which are harder to find than expected!)

the longlist for the international booker prize

A list with ALL longlisted titles from the National Book Award for Translated Literature (USA) and the International Booker prize (UK) .

Updated once new nominees are announced.

Currently updated with: • NBA 2018-2025 • International Booker 2016-2026

Books from the Florence and the Machine book club @betweentwobooks on IG

(I am not the book club admin, just a fan, and these are not all the books but I will add them all in soon, I promise)

Danish literature, cause I'm Danish

It’s always nice to feel like a normal person by reading about those more unhinged than you 😌 These are all women focused books. Some I’ve read and some I’m going to read. Apologies in advance if it gets long. Recommendations are absolutely welcome!! So please feel free.

I know a couple are written by men which might be taboo for some but I’ve included because I thought they were appropriate or the author has a track record of writing women well.