Recs if you like Blob: A Love Story...

An emergent subgrene by and about strange women on themes of female rage, sisterhood, hunger, attraction, beauty, motherhood, violence, and much more.

...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.

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

this is for aesthetics only

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

could be queer could be horror downright wonky

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

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

books who have the same style of covers; featuring bright hot or neon pink🩷 with neon yellow💛!

sadly, the default pagebound editions might not be the correct ones so you’ll have to look through the available editions. pagebound please let us choose</3

open to recs!

A list of books I have come across when looking for books that fit this theme. Please leave a comment if there is something I should add.

idek man. i love this genre and vibe though

Crime, obsession, feminine rage etc 🩷

Weird girl literature, horror, and nonfiction novels, short stories, anthologies, etc.

Why settle when you can have a monster obsessed with you.

Monster, Mermen, Alien, Entity, Demons, Vampires, Wolf, Orc, ect.

Horror, Fantasy, Romance, and Smut.

Straight & queer

Standalone & series Only first books in series were added because why would you read a second book if you didn't like the first.

The shortlist and play-in round books for the 2026 Tournament of Books

"Weird girl literature" by BIPoC authors and/or featuring BIPoC experiences

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