Recs if you like We Play Ourselves...

Basically, a huge list of books from all genres featuring sapphic characters, whether bisexual, lesbian, butch, femme, or anything in between.

Includes fiction and nonfiction. Books with spice, and books with very little romance alike. You may find epic lady knights, pirates, ancient vampires or just weird girl adventures, heartbreaking stories or cozy books of found family and queer joy. Memoirs, historical fiction, instruction manuals, maybe even a poem or two.

Welcoming suggestions<3

these books are both aligned with and offer a queering of ‘weird girl literature’, a genre that manipulates horror, dark comedy, and/or surrealist elements to excavate the internal world of complex and unconventional characters. they are deviant, daring, and perverse reads for the weird queers among us.

*girl in quotation marks to allow this list to extend beyond the binary. recommendations welcome!

books for fans of Lena Dunham’s Girls <3

works that look at the life and legacy of ‘great’ fictional artists. recommendations welcome!

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

Books that explore women's hunger (as a theme/with appetite as a key aspect of the book), whether it's ambition, power, sexual/emotional hunger, longing for a voice/community, or literal physical hunger. #girldinner

under-the-radar, lesser known weird lit fic recs

books that center a woman main character who makes extremely questionable (unhinged) decisions, whether by choice or necessity. (often seen as ~ hysterical ~) heroes & villains welcome. [ongoing list]

"Weird girl literature" featuring sapphic characters

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the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose “girlhood” are we talking about? i’m thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.

It’s always nice to feel like a normal person by reading about those more unhinged than you 😌 These are all women focused books. Some I’ve read and some I’m going to read. Apologies in advance if it gets long. Recommendations are absolutely welcome!! So please feel free.

I know a couple are written by men which might be taboo for some but I’ve included because I thought they were appropriate or the author has a track record of writing women well.

I mostly read women so they are definitely overrepresented here, feel free to suggest litfic featuring bi or pan men or enbies!

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Fiction and NF, books set in LA or about LA

LGBTQ+ books set in los angeles