Recs if you like Fake Accounts...

Introspective books by people who observe a lot, ponder a lot, feel a lot, and write about it. Creative memoir, self-indulgent navel-gazing, or "wan little husks" (as Joyce Carol Oates once put it)... whatever you personally think about autofiction, including whether or not it really is a genre, this somewhat experimental form of writing most definitely gives both writers and readers a chance to engage in narratives in a different way.

Uncanny digital intimacy. Ring lights, comment sections, stan culture, identity crisis, doomscroll insomnia.

Everyone has a secret. Whether it's to hide from someone, advance in life, or bury their past, these protagonists or the people close to them have kept their true identities a secret. And something like that never comes back to haunt them, right?

Where intimacy is labour and feelings are billable. Therapists, streamers, friends-for-hire, trauma influencers - the new side hustles of the soul.

Novels that heavily feature the internet. Suggestions welcome!

Based on Nicholas Gaskill’s article of the same name, these books analyse the liberal response to Trump’s rise, through ontological alarm concerning the “post-truth” age and the fragility of autofiction.