Recs if you like Bad Behavior...

🍃✨ you might call it weird girl lit (with exceptional prose quality)

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 🥹

Lives of outsiders rendered in sharp prose style. Descendants of Shelley, the Brontes, and Woolf; forebears to 'Weird Girl Lit'. Title refers to the authors, the subjects of the work may not always be women. Focused on novels published between WW2 and 9/11, with a few memoirs and short story collections.

Fixations and obsessions

Books for and about unconventional women.

Everyone hates a psychosexual relationship until they got a really good one going

this list is a nod to the fictional course taught in one of my favorite books of 2026 (and possibly all time), Offseason, which does not take place in a city for the most part, excepting one important and hilarious chapter, but i loved the idea of collecting great writing (mostly) about the city i call home, NYC!

please send suggestions! i’d love to explore more NYC works. i fall out of love with this city from time to time, and nothing cures me faster than a good NYC book 🍎🍃✨