Recs if you like The Hearing Trumpet...

books featuring older women protagonists, age 30 and up, in sci-fi and fantasy. for books containing multiple povs/protagonists, older fmcs should hold equal weight and presence in the story as other mcs. ideally, aiming for more women centred additions, but open to all suggestions and feedback!

Not all collections hold things you can touch. This one holds worlds that breathe, selves that dissolve, and realities that refuse to hold their shape. These are the fictions that live on the edge of what language can contain - and sometimes just beyond. Admission is free, through entry requires a signed waiver: the curator cannot be held responsible for any transformations that occur upon your exit. We welcome specimen recommendations!

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

Novels for when you want to explore religious trauma and the impacts of religion through fiction. For nonfic, see my list “From saint to sinner: religious deconstruction”

Suggestions are welcome!

Science fiction and fantasy books with female protagonists who are NOT teenage girls!

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

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.

Hii, everyone ♡ I am a very big fan of the booktuber @caricanread so I thought I would make a list of all the books she has read this year! ✰

my favorite genre. elvia wilk’s essay is the best on what this genre is, but here’s an excerpt: “Weird knowledge does not deny the capacity of the human mind and body to produce knowledge, but it does not reduce the world to human subject experience either. Unlike science fiction—in which there is a rational explanation for everything—and fantasy—where magic explains it all—weirdness hovers between poles of explainability.”

Weird Fiction Starter Pack

Lives of outsiders rendered in sharp prose style. Descendants of Shelley, the Brontes, and Woolf; forebears to 'Weird Girl Lit'. Title refers to the authors, the subjects of the work may not always be women. Focused on novels published between WW2 and 9/11, with a few memoirs and short story collections.

Stress relief through easy reads & humor

Includes but not limited to: fluff, comedy, cozy/comfort, banter, plain-ol’-laughs, fun-no-plot, ridiculousness (writing ranging from okay to fantastic but they’re all worth it)

Can’t be bothered with the world or seriousness? Need a break for your brain and soul? Rest here & treat yourself!

[please REC other helpful prescriptions - ⭐️ bonus if queer ] - thank you fellow pharmacy volunteers 🙏🏻

Mostly: adult-audience fiction, some YA & youth titles often appreciated by all ages.

"Sob sob sob life as a fish was much too hard"

Did you come here to relax, reclaim lost beauty or join a cult?

Your favourite female fantasy writer's... favourite female fantasy writer. Works of SFF by female writers which proved critically lauded or influential to subsequent writers.

Every book recommended by members of the band (except for the one that must not be named). Most of these were recommended by Lucy Dacus. If you are sitting on more books which any member of the band recommended, please hit me up and I will update the list!

surrender; meaning is felt before it’s understood

Books from before 2000 that fit the more modern genre/descriptor of "weird girl literature"

💜 yarnandbooks

The female writers the canon has “forgotten” about (or wilfully ignored / pushed out / side tracked)