Recs if you like The End of Mr. Y...

books that are so changed by the end that they're entirely different books on the re-read. books best entered blind, with a twist or gradual reveal that is not just surprising, but retroactively rewrites everything you've already read – the meaning, tone, genre, or intention of every page before it.

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

recs so so welcome!

coined by phil ford and jf martel, co-hosts of “weird studies,” zonal literature is a term that refers to narratives set in reality-bent spaces. in these liminal zones, ordinary life is suspended, altered, other. the rules here are different, even if things may look the same.

Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!

this is a collection of books that contain more stories within their stories, almost like an endless corridor of doors that lead to more doors or an infinite matryoshka doll
(always open to suggestions!!)

Fiction about weird drugs that induce weird states/make you do weird things

Ideally not drugs that exist irl with cool new sci-fi names slapped on them. We're looking for totally new kinds of pharmacology here! Exciting (and potentially scary)!!

Under construction!

Books that capture the uncanny upside-down of that city you thought you knew so well.

Books about books. Books about authors/writers. Books about readers…but not like Annie Wilkes from Misery. Just non-psychotic readers. This list doesn’t include libraries or bookstores, because those are totally different types of pizza.

places of wonder, fantasy, dreams, desires, creativity, the bizzare, the wonderful….

Suprised this list is so short, I must have more!

In-progress / updated over time Recommendations welcome (if you see the connecting vibe)

wip! 1996-2009 currently adding more