Recs if you like Sour Fruit...

queer horror books releasing in 2026 and beyond! my aim is to keep this list updated as new releases come out, so you can always check back here to see what’s queer and scary and coming soon!

recommendations welcome, but i’m only including titles when and if they are confirmed to have queer representation.

these books use (literal) hunger as a political tool to speak to women’s oppression, repression and desire, whether through overt cannibal metaphor, speculative dispatches, or more subtle nuances of appetite in literary fiction. these women are hungry for something more, whether they’re allowed to act on it or not.

recommendations welcome!

in the first edition of ‘the monstrous-feminine’, barbara creed challenges the dominant representation of women in horror films as victims, arguing that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous because of their sexuality (or lack thereof).

later, creed reinterprets the monstrous-feminine as a being who embraces her body and reclaims her otherness. in line with this contemporary vision, these are books which use horror to redefine notions of ‘womanhood’.

recommendations welcome!

was curious, so did some research and found loads and loads!!! happy reading, folks!

Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic

books that focus on its characters and their motivations, behaviors, personality and psychology and what effect the events around them have on their life. these range from multiple genres, all including complex characters where you get to analyze and understand them

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

List of books containing narrators that are unreliable, unfavorable, vile, malicious, manipulative and so on. The story, therefore, may be distorted through the lense of the narrator. Passages will likely contain content where you stop and think, "Hold up, did I read that correctly?" This list will focus on horror and horror adjacent books, focusing not just on narrators that are unreliable but also unlikable, cruel, vicious, vile and/or manipulative.

"Weird girl literature" by BIPoC authors and/or featuring BIPoC experiences

💜 yarnandbooks

books I want to read (or have already read) where people are eating people.