Recs if you like The Ice Palace...

weird little books you can read in one sitting

A list of translated Norwegian classics, includes children's classics. The list is a work in progress

Books and stories featuring unreliable narrative situations.

Books to fulfill you reading around the world challenge. Ideally, the author is from the country they are writing about. Bonus points if it’s translated!

Books that often get overlooked next to big author names or better known works by those authors.

basically my favorite genre that encompasses a lot of other genres. all very different in tone! i have not yet read all of these.

Fasten your seatbelts and travel through Europe with these books from every European country!

(Suggestions are very welcome, specially for any missing countries)

Books from every country for reading around the world challenge (no particular order, I might have missed some, will be updating) Feel free to suggest!

Books that are demanding both for your brain and your heart.

Snow, frost, dark long nights ❄️

Books that were featured on an episode of Backlisted.

a collection of existential crises, surreal detours, grotesque little creatures, and the occasional philosophical cockroach. somewhere between the absurdity of being alive and the absurdity of trying to understand it.

This isn’t just “weird girl lit,” it’s weird girl books with a MESSAGE. with something to say and doing it in a weird way!! No shame to the angry woman weird girl books but that ain’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking space, magical realism, weird kinks as metaphors. I’m talking new takes on the form, books that do things differently. If you know, you know. These are some of my favorite types of books and nearly everything on this list I’ve read and loved.

to broaden one’s horizons

books to read when the days get shorter and colder