Recs if you like The Accidental...

book recs for purple readers according to read your color on substack | updated periodically

for this list, i am specifically looking into creating an extensive list of novels whose narratives center in some way film as an art or an industry. these are fictional explorations of what it means to make, love, fear, consume, be consumed by cinema.

Books by queer Scottish writers.

I just finished who will be remembered here and am now keen to try out other works of the writers who collaborated. Thought I’d make a list in case someone else is interested :)

Suggestions for anything queer and Scottish are welcome, as are comments if you see something on the list you think doesn’t fit. I’m not Scottish and have read exactly none of these books, so I am obviously not the leading authority on anything.

Complete! Every book longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction since it was founded in 1996, under its current title and previous sponsored titles of 'Orange' and 'Baileys' Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!

You’re a mirrorball, sometimes it doesn’t feel so glamorous, it’s hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound, cry your eyes violet, you’re down bad crying at the gym, it was not convenient, if they call you a "slut!" it might as well be worth it for once, they told you all of your cages were mental so you got wasted like all your potential, if the shoe fits walk in it 'til your high heels break, they kicked out the stage lights but you’re still performing, your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems, say you’ll remember me