Recs if you like The Hearing Trumpet...
Older Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Books featuring older women as protagonists (age 30 and up) in science fiction and fantasy. Feedback and recs welcome!
The Curio Cabinet: The Symbolic, Strange & Surreal
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!
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
Fiction with Themes of Religious Trauma
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!
Older Women in SFF
Science fiction and fantasy books with female protagonists who are NOT teenage girls!
Niche Classics
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.
Witches, Weirdos & Other Women of Taste
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.
✰ Caricanread 2026 ✰
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! ✰
weird fiction 🐧
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.”
Disorienting, Discombobulating & Disorderly Books
Weird Fiction Starter Pack
Weird Women of the Late 20th Century (1945-2001)
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.
Book Riot's Top 100 SF/F Novels by Female Authors
It's Not Just a Spa, Is It?
Did you come here to relax, reclaim lost beauty or join a cult?
Boygenius Bookclub
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!
books that make sense only if you stop trying to make sense of them
surrender; meaning is felt before it’s understood
She Who Wrote
The female writers the canon has “forgotten” about (or wilfully ignored / pushed out / side tracked)
Feminist Masterpieces 🦪👑
Feminist masterpieces from female writers in every genre ✨ Recommendations are very welcome here!:)
women artists
Books by and/or about women artists throughout history (wip! taking recs!)
The Telegraph’s “50 greatest books of all time”
On August 9, 2026, The Telegraph published a list of “The 50 greatest books of all time” by Jake Kerridge
