Recs if you like A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing...
these titles are complete sentences!
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.
sad girl litfic starter pack
the warm, fragmented interiors of women navigating emotional turmoil, relational dysfunction, identity crises, and existential malaise. intense, immersive, atmospheric, and deeply felt. stories of mundanity and despair, but also of a different beauty, some subtler strength. let's wallow freely and without shame.
note: open to recs, but those focused on interiority rather than romance (e.g. not Normal People)
~ stream of consciousness ~
works of literary fiction that use the stream of consciousness narrative technique (popular in post-WWI modernist literature) to express the natural flow of thoughts, feelings, memories and sensory impressions.
often fragmented, unconventional, experimental in terms of structure, punctuation and syntax.
recs welcome!
Irish Books
A collection of books by Irish authors that I've loved or am looking forward to!
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I tried to find the latest version (2026).
Feminist Reading List for Sisterhood
a mix of nonfiction theory and culture writing and feminist novels
Women's Prize for Fiction Award Winners
The Women's Prize for Fiction was started in 1996 as a way to highlight exceptional women writers and to balance out the coverage that male writers received. The Women's Prize is awarded every year to the best novel written in English and published in the UK. There is also a Women's Prize for Nonfiction, created in 2023.
Women's Prize for Fiction Winners
Books that have won the Women's Prize for Fiction
Women’s Prize for Fiction Winners
All the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
ireland 🇮🇪
books that are either based on irish mythology, based in ireland and/or written by irish authors
Women's fiction prize
Winners
Award Winning Reads
Nobel, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Women’s Prize, Lambda Literary Award, etc. winners
The Observer’s 25 Best Books of the Century So Far
The Observer published a list of the “25 best books of the century so far” on December 18, 2025, as decided by their critics and editors. (Note: the inclusion of The Odyssey is specifically for the translation by Emily Wilson.)
bible
weird girl fiction starter pack
play rainbow by kacey musgraves
you know that feeling when you leave the cinema and you've been changed as a person? these reads are that in book form: emotional blows, devastating and healing
