Recs if you like The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal...

compliments and credit for this incredible idea go to @leshka.

has this ever happened to you? do you read a bunch of smutty smut and feel guilty bc it’s not “proper books”? well, do i have a answers for you!

find below a curated list of smutty smut titles paired with complimentary classics and/or nonfiction smarty books to make your brain bigger!*

*individual bigger brain results may vary

🚧this list is under construction🚧

Books featuring nuns…

Suggestions welcome.

Exactly what it says on the tin, books that feature queer nuns (some Christian, some of a more fantastical variety)

books about nuns. kinda niche interest of mine... please comment if you have any recs ❤️ FOR THE RECORD: I am mostly looking for literary fiction and classics (though there are some exceptions on the list)

Nonfiction books about Lesbian nuns

ask large questions in small spaces! avoids (but not void of) memoirs/biographies, some case studies, and the macro i'm not a historian or an expert by any means but i am salty. a lot of contemporary lists for microhistory reads contain a lot of books that are absolutely not micro. At. All. think mark kurlansky ("milk", "salt", "cod" etc.), anything that starts with "a short history of [incredibly complex geopolitical event]", or literally any historical account that spans centuries/countries/cultures/individuals. while there is definitely some gray areas and overlap, a good way to attempt to distinguish micro from the macro is macrohistory looks at how an individual/event/object/place changed and influenced the world/society/culture -- an outward expansion of one idea that proliferates time and space. microhistory is the inverse. how did the contemporary society, culture, and world change and influence a specific, tangential individual/place/event? the micro attempts to answer that! so let's reduce the scale of investigation! focus on the ones history would have otherwise forgotten if not for the diligent note takers! we're talking footnotes! anecdotes! indexes! the hot goss! EA-NASIR! macrohistory is about everyone but microhistory is about you and me baby!

nonfiction!

I started this list noticing a common titular pattern in some of my favourite books… and now that I’ve started digging this hole I can’t stop. There’s SO MANY. Please send more suggestions in the comments. Thanks for digging this hole with me 🙂‍↕️🪏