Recs if you like Perfume & Pain...

An emergent subgrene by and about strange women on themes of female rage, sisterhood, hunger, attraction, beauty, motherhood, violence, and much more.

Basically, a huge list of books from all genres featuring sapphic characters, whether bisexual, lesbian, butch, femme, or anything in between.

Includes fiction and nonfiction. Books with spice, and books with very little romance alike. You may find epic lady knights, pirates, ancient vampires or just weird girl adventures, heartbreaking stories or cozy books of found family and queer joy. Memoirs, historical fiction, instruction manuals, maybe even a poem or two.

Welcoming suggestions<3

these books are both aligned with and offer a queering of ‘weird girl literature’, a genre that manipulates horror, dark comedy, and/or surrealist elements to excavate the internal world of complex and unconventional characters. they are deviant, daring, and perverse reads for the weird queers among us.

*girl in quotation marks to allow this list to extend beyond the binary. recommendations welcome!

...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.

Following women on journeys to do weird and maybe violent things.

Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!

my personal wlw library so… a lot of classic lesbian lit, basically

Sexy, outrageous, sleazy, and with enough dyke pulp to get stuck in between your teeth!

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 curating the personality of my aspirations (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

this is for aesthetics only

Weird, unusual, or taboo LGBTQ books that may make you slightly uncomfortable

Suggestions always welcome

Just because you are queer doesn't mean you have your life together

❌ online discourse, ✔️ holistic knowledge fiction & non-fiction that will deepen your understanding of sapphism, its language/label evolution, and its intersections with bipoc, gender diversity and bisexuality. (please note “lesbian” terminology was originally an expansive umbrella openly inclusive of fluid sapphics when many books were published, and not all identify as specifically/exclusively wlw!)

the coquette femme aesthetic is of the utmost importance

Because there's no quest to suit this genre and a girls got specific interests

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

could be queer could be horror downright wonky

Middle grade, YA and Adult fictional books with canon autistic main characters

Books that I think have beautiful front covers. Open for recommendations!

Any sapphic book that I feel falls in the category of lit fic