Recs if you like Outline...
Books that feel like an A24 film
Books that are atmospheric, emotionally unsettling, beautifully written, a little weird, and linger long after you finish them.
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
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, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
emotionally restrained narrators
fiction where a composed, detached voice conceals its own turmoil, or circles a truth it cannot name, drawing the reader’s hungry gaze toward the silences, each one heavy with unspoken meaning.
it’s all in what is not said.
recs welcome as always :)
uncanny interiority
🍃✨ books where the real setting is somebody’s unsettling brain/perspective (with exceptional prose quality)
Women vs The Void
autofiction: hyperreflection as an art form
Introspective books by people who observe a lot, ponder a lot, feel a lot, and write about it. Creative memoir, self-indulgent navel-gazing, or "wan little husks" (as Joyce Carol Oates once put it)... whatever you personally think about autofiction, including whether or not it really is a genre, this somewhat experimental form of writing most definitely gives both writers and readers a chance to engage in narratives in a different way.
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
40 Books Chosen by Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world.
Amazing Autofiction
The best of autofiction - all the humor, drama, and introspection!
New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times
thinky women
R/Truelit's 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
Reddit's R/Truelit user voted best books of 2000-2026. They included a full series as one pick, like the Neopolitan novels. I only include the first to keep it at 100.
Guardian 100
Top 100 books of the 21st century
books to get you right out of a slump
do the emojis make sense or does it just look stupid? what i mean is first the cat sad cause in a slump then cat read book and then happy cat
Set in Greece
Fiction books set in Greece
elena ferrante's top 40 books by women authors
read the cup!
brazilian government's rec list from the hosts of the 2026 fifa world cup (canada, mexico and the united states).
