Recs if you like Bones & All...

books where women eat or think about eating other people

these books use (literal) hunger as a political tool to speak to women’s oppression, repression and desire, whether through overt cannibal metaphor, speculative dispatches, or more subtle nuances of appetite in literary fiction. these women are hungry for something more, whether they’re allowed to act on it or not.

recommendations welcome!

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

horror novels written by women about girls and women with deadly appetites. despite the title there is sapphic lit here i just liked the pun. these books focus on human cannibals, i.e. not supernatural monsters like vampires, werewolves, etc. is the cannibalism a metaphor for love? rage? sex? all of the above!

These are novels where love is expressed through cannibalism. More explanation in the comments

“Before we begin, you must all be warned — nothing here is vegetarian.”

The intensity of the appetites and content in these books vary, check trigger warnings if needed.

A short list of books with people whose main hobbie is to eat other people and who are we to judge? 😌

required reading for yellowjackets fans

a collection of recommendations from the Made for the Movies forum

A list of books that use cannibalism as social commentary

featuring dysfunctional families, troubled relationships with religion, underlying decay, the southern gothic, and just a sprinkling of cannibalism

Books with varying degrees of unhinged-ness.

Women who consume, cannibalistic divas (Also let me know ones to add - I'd love some recs)

make sure to look up any TWs before reading these!

books that give me ethel cain vibes

For adventurous readers who are interested in something a little darker than average! (TW: Actual cannibalism. Not for the faint of heart)

not every book includes an actual road trip but they do include lots of driving around & small town vibes

some stories should stay on the page, not splashed on a screen