Recs if you like Open Wide...
Well, you have options
Book titles that represent reasons you might go to the doctor, what you might say to each other, or what treatments might be offered to cure your ailments. It's up to you to decide what is what😉
(This is not a commentary on these books or authors! The focus of this list is purely on the titles---but if you find a favorite new read here, I'd love to know🤭)
I love it when women
...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on 🔗 Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listed in the description, or offhandedly said.
Is that cover a Georgia O’Keeffe*?
These book covers all have a certain anatomical resemblance in common, from subtle and subversive to in-your-face. These books span non-fiction and fiction, menstrual health, desire, taboo, dystopia, and more.
This list is inspired by a day when a few people had updates involving Tampa and I was like, “wait, is that…?”
*Yes, I do know that the artist herself said that she really was just painting flowers and people were reading what they wanted to, but…
🔪🩸👩❤️💋👩baddies on quests🐇🥰🧚♀️
Following women on journeys to do weird and maybe violent things.
We Have Different Life Paths
Weird, mostly girlys going through different unique life adventures. Supporting girlies (the girls, theys and thems) rights and wrongs.  Regina George screaming down her hallway into her room hunting down the Burn Book
Cover Porn: The Lit Fic Edition
Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
books that share custody of one oil painting
have I read them all? there is literally no way to know. #whoworeitbetter
Weird girl lit
Horror, dystopia, intimacy, and supporting women's wrongs.
Mark Me Down as Scared and Horny
If horror, why hot?
Weird Books for a Weird Time
Books with bizarre concepts
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
Books with Camp Covers
Because yes, I do judge.
Also all written by women (I think, correct if wrong)
unhinged ladies
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]
the gross and horrifying
lots of gore and/or taboo topics trying to add mostly based off what i’ve read
Weird Older Women
List formerly known as weird girl elders. "Weird girl literature" books with characters that are over 30.
💜 yarnandbooks
Book Pairings
Pairings books to read together two at a time to create a better understanding of the book and a better analysis of the themes, concepts either through harmony or friction. *Will comment the core theme exploration point for each if anyone’s interested 💛
Obsessive Women
"Weird girl literature" featuring obsession
💜 yarnandbooks
Women, Desire & Longing
a raw & unfiltered lens on desire, obsession, intimacy and the desperate, destructive need to feel - about women who don't fit society's image of femininity, love and relationships
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