Recs if you like The Little Friend...

God loves you, but not enough to save you from these stories. Ethel Cain & Preacher’s Daughter vibes/inspired fiction

The hedonists. The provocateur. The phenom. The forgotten talent. In the decadent 1980s, an emerging group of young American writers on the East Coast was dubbed the Literary Brat Pack, made up of Jay McInterney, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Donna Tartt, and Jill Eisenstadt. The name is a play on the Hollywood Brat Pack, which is itself a play on the Rat Pack. Their works exemplified the excessive highs and lows of the decade and helped change the course of American literature.

US Southern Studies Books [in progress]

Other books and plays referenced within Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea.

See notes for information on references. (Tk)

🚧 In Progress !! 🚧 - Confirming and noting exact place / theme / etc of referenced material. Pulling from others lists atm / online until I do.

Adding the starless sea so this list can be found by those looking at the book! 👀 ✨

Books that are set in a small town; variety of genres but all one teeny tiny town

This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!

For the Fae and Flame Society book club, often our seasonal book bingo includes a square for 'a book set in a small town.' Here is a list of books set in small towns across a variety of genres to push us outside of our normal romantasy.

wip! 1996-2009 currently adding more

Crimes and calamities in the American South

I’m very tempted to buy them before I make my tbr smaller