Recs if you like Ripe...
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 that feel like an A24 film
Books that are atmospheric, emotionally unsettling, beautifully written, a little weird, and linger long after you finish them.
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
🔪🩸👩❤️💋👩baddies on quests🐇🥰🧚♀️
Following women on journeys to do weird and maybe violent things.
twentysomething
books with characters who are in their 20s (and trying to figure out their 20s). primarily but not exclusively lit fic.
uncanny interiority
🍃✨ books where the real setting is somebody’s unsettling brain/perspective (with exceptional prose quality)
It’s okay to judge a book by it’s cover!
Beautiful books for when your monthly reading roundup needs a little facelift 😉
Cover Porn: The Lit Fic Edition
Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic
Kids Can Be Cruel
Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...
Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹
⚔️ Rise, Sisters - Female Rage and Power
Books about feminine power and rage. Inspiring, enraging, validating. Let us rise, my sisters.
weird girl literature
for those who don't conform to the norm.
Out of office (and my mind)
fiction about capitalism, surveillance, and how the jobs we work to survive impact our sense of self
Women vs The Void
woman vs void
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.
Absurdist Workplace Novels
Just another day at the office 🤪
Consumption is Erotic
eat them alive
Corporate angst
free me from this capitalistic hellscape!
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
reading about work > working
fiction that explores some aspect of the modern capitalist hellscape, whether high-tech corporate, blue collar, or something in between.
7 Deadly Sins: Gluttony
Books where over-indulgence and over-consumption are central themes.
