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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

this is for aesthetics only

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!)

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

the coquette femme aesthetic is of the utmost importance

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

could be queer could be horror downright wonky

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

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

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

reading diversely is not a trend. it’s the bare minimum. and if your shelves don’t reflect that, you’re missing out.