Recs if you like Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You...
Midwest Emo
"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
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Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
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Titles that hurt 💥🥊
Whether you know what the book is about or not, some titles hit like a punch to the gut.
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'90s-'00s Queer YA Fiction
Fiction with LGBTQ characters or themes, published for teens between 1990 and 2009.
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