Recs if you like Open Wide...

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🤭)

...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.

Following women on journeys to do weird and maybe violent things.

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…

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

Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic

have I read them all? there is literally no way to know. #whoworeitbetter

If horror, why hot?

Horror, dystopia, intimacy, and supporting women's wrongs.

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

Books with bizarre concepts

Because yes, I do judge.

Also all written by women (I think, correct if wrong)

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]

List formerly known as weird girl elders. "Weird girl literature" books with characters that are over 30.

💜 yarnandbooks

lots of gore and/or taboo topics trying to add mostly based off what i’ve read

"Weird girl literature" featuring obsession

💜 yarnandbooks

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 💛

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