Recs if you like Study for Obedience...
Award Nominated Fiction from Indie Publishers
Trying to support indie publishers and read more diverse fiction! I’m starting with the Booker Prize and hopefully adding more when I can. Add your recs in the comments!
weird and wonderful
weird. strange. off putting. confusing. despite this you cannot put these books down.
lit fic for the soul
books that stick with you for months and leave you thinking
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* lit expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks, who is no longer on Pagebound. 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!
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
books that feel like a joanna newsom song
What a woman does is open doors, it is not a question of locking or unlocking.
For the Birds: A Massacre of Bird Book Covers
Because who doesn’t love birds?? Fiction and non-fiction books all featuring birds prominently on the cover. This is what I spend my time thinking about 😭
Giller Prize Winners
Books that have won Canada's largest literary prize from 1994 to present
Giller Prize Winners
a list of past winners from the giller prize—one of canada's most prestigious literary prizes
The Telegraph’s “50 greatest books of all time”
On August 9, 2026, The Telegraph published a list of “The 50 greatest books of all time” by Jake Kerridge
