Recs if you like Margo's Got Money Troubles...
Listening Is Reading
When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.
these titles are complete sentences!
books your pretentious friend has heard of
twentysomething
books with characters who are in their 20s (and trying to figure out their 20s). primarily but not exclusively lit fic.
Mixed Perspectives Books
These books utilize first person, second person, and third person perspective- ideally all three but books with some combination of the three are also included.
Book(s) of the Month(s) 📚
Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!
Cover Porn: The Lit Fic Edition
Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Situationally Quirky and Questioning
Short-ish Novels inviting consideration of novel characters in novel situations. Are we on a war ship? An airplane? Dedicated to a niche passion? Practicing a little known, long-ago tradition? Choosing a seemingly reasonable path in life that is nonetheless judged “unconventional” by others? Curated through my ACE lens!
Female Rage: The Library
Social commentary under patriarchy
read with your ears
books that were better on audio
basically every memoir is also going to be better on audio, especially if the author narrates it, but I have a separate list for those
Women vs The Void
coming of age (lit/contemporary fiction specific)
bildungsroman if ya nasty
book adaptations announced for 2026-27
The book girlies are seeing their favourite characters on screen this year so if you didn’t know or want to be ahead of the game and prep, this list is here. This list includes tv adaptations and movies so if you’re curious make sure to see if it’s streaming or theatre release.
P.s. I’m including books whose adaptations already came out this year so far
Despondent Women
The ladies on these covers just need a damn break.
sad hot girls
Purple Reads, Purple Reads
(Please read the title of the list to the tune of Purple Rain 😂) - Books with purple covers!
books involving motherhood
some book recs that involve the complexities of motherhood: the tough and tender, chaotic and beautiful, exhausting and full of purpose.
Books written by women about women
In honor of International Women’s Day here are books written by women, for women, about women. From rebellion to resilience, sisterhood to survival and family to friendships.
The list is a mix of books I’ve read and books that are on my TBR. I’ll be adding to the list as and when I read or find a book I think fits.
Sad girl essentials
With a big scoop of melancholy!
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