Recs if you like The Coin...
Weird Girl Fiction
An emergent subgrene by and about strange women on themes of female rage, sisterhood, hunger, attraction, beauty, motherhood, violence, and much more.
books your pretentious friend has heard of
She’s spiraling
Books where the protagonist loses their grip on reality, has strange, unsettling, and/or surreal experiences
light of my life, fire of my loins - obsessions
books featuring obsession, from the light-hearted and quirky to the dark and twisted
uncanny interiority
🍃✨ books where the real setting is somebody’s unsettling brain/perspective (with exceptional prose quality)
SWANA Authors
SWANA authors are authors from South West Asia and North Africa. They currently make up <1% of the trad publishing industry. This list is here to introduce you to their stories.
NOTE: if you find an author who doesn’t belong on this list, please comment & I will remove the book(s) ASAP.
As always, lists are forever evolving🥰
all adventurous women do
books for fans of Lena Dunham’s Girls <3
Shit Lit (Complimentary)
Fiction where we learn perhaps a bit too much about someone's bathroom habits
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
woman, unraveling…
books that fall in the “woman unraveling” subgenre. life is so much, and sometimes the only way we know how to react is to spiral…. for better or worse !
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
On Palestine: A Reading List
Palestinian voices in fiction
A list of fiction written by and about the Palestinian experience.
Intersectional Feminist Book Club Reads
Past, present, and future reads of InterFemi Book Club 💜 Instagram: @interfemibookclub 💜 A space for anyone passionate about feminism through an intersectional lens. We read books that explore gender, race, class, disability, and queerness, centering diverse voices and lived experiences.
Down With the (Female) Sickness
Books that highlight the ways gender roles have harmed women, often through assigning an inherent wickedness to the entire gender and using suffering or punishment to “liberate” women from our wickedness. Starting with The Yellow Wallpaper, in which Victorian standards for women expected purity and perfection. Imperfection, whether it be postpartum depression or strong opinions, was labeled as female hysteria and treated in a way that only further harmed women. Exploring empowerment & autonomy
Inklings Book Club
Jack Edward’s book club picks
BIPoC Weird Girls
"Weird girl literature" by BIPoC authors and/or featuring BIPoC experiences
💜 yarnandbooks
back-to-school
Includes dark academia, fantasy, and literary fiction--but takes place on a campus or in some way relates to student/teaching life.
Inklings Bookclub Picks
Book club picks by Jack Edwards
NatsBookClub - with Natalie Portman
A book club where storytelling is at it’s heart. To feel for characters in stories as we might for ourselves or our friends.
