Recs if you like The Dud Avocado...
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 🥹
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Bucket-List Classics
All the Classics I want to read before ...ya know.
NYRB
Weird Girl Lit Classics
Books from before 2000 that fit the more modern genre/descriptor of "weird girl literature"
💜 yarnandbooks
mentioned in “This Book Made Me Think of You”
The ultimate bookish read!
Books I recommend when I’m feeling pretentious
Books I genuinely enjoy, but likely only read because I thought it would make me look/be smarter
Backlisted
Books that were featured on an episode of Backlisted.
From one place to Another place
Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel
a study in leisure
Beautiful Covers
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