Recs if you like Death in Her Hands...

Books that are atmospheric, emotionally unsettling, beautifully written, a little weird, and linger long after you finish them.

Book that have an element you’ll miss out on if you read as an audiobook, whether it’s fun formatting or illustrations

the warm, fragmented interiors of women navigating emotional turmoil, relational dysfunction, identity crises, and existential malaise. intense, immersive, atmospheric, and deeply felt. stories of mundanity and despair, but also of a different beauty, some subtler strength. let's wallow freely and without shame.

note: open to recs, but those focused on interiority rather than romance (e.g. not Normal People)

| 2026 | verity: october 2 sense & sensibility: october 16 sunrise on the reaping: november 20 dune messiah: december 18

| 2027 | children of blood & bone: january 15 the nightingale: february 12 beach read: may 7

| 2028 | cinder: november 3

A little feral, a little fashionable, and wholly uninterested in being understood. From housewives who fall in love with sea creatures to grandmothers who commune with the cosmos. These stories are eccentricity, rebellion, and taste.

All genres, no teenagers or early 20s heroines. Open to suggestions because we need to read about women of all ages and walks of life.

for those who don't conform to the norm.

could be queer could be horror downright wonky

books who have the same style of covers; featuring bright hot or neon pink🩷 with neon yellow💛!

sadly, the default pagebound editions might not be the correct ones so you’ll have to look through the available editions. pagebound please let us choose</3

open to recs!

Books where the protagonist is around or older than 50

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

List of books containing narrators that are unreliable, unfavorable, vile, malicious, manipulative and so on. The story, therefore, may be malleable in the narrators mind. Passages will likely contain content where you stop and think, "Hold up, did I read that correctly?" This list will focus on horror and horror adjacent books, focusing not just on narrators that are unreliable but also unlikable, cruel and possibly psychopaths.

"I am the reason I suffer but I am worth fighting for." - Roland Faunte (from the song "Anchor")

Haunting, delicate, desperate, shaking voices, trembling fingers...reading these stories feels like listening to Roland Faunte songs. [Created Apr '26]

Novels with intriguing titles (that I read or that sound interesting) in English (either originally or translated); a mix of genres. Mostly 4+ words in the title, with some select 3-word-titles but no shorter ones. No parts of series except for the first book.

Uncanny digital intimacy. Ring lights, comment sections, stan culture, identity crisis, doomscroll insomnia.

List formerly known as weird girl elders. "Weird girl literature" books with characters that are over 30.

💜 yarnandbooks

I felt a tinge of that Fall Breeze last night so I’ve been listening to the album in anticipation of the colder seasons. This album is the epitome of “to disturb the comforted and to comfort the disturbed” and I was inspired to create a list of books that evoke that.

This is a mix of weird horror & dystopian books where you’re not sure if you’re losing your mind