Recs if you like A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing...

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)

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!

A collection of books by Irish authors that I've loved or am looking forward to!

I tried to find the latest version (2026).

a mix of nonfiction theory and culture writing and feminist novels

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.

Books that have won the Women's Prize for Fiction

All the winners of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

books that are either based on irish mythology, based in ireland and/or written by irish authors

Winners

Nobel, Pulitzer, National Book Award, Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Women’s Prize, Lambda Literary Award, etc. winners

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.)

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