Recs if you like Snake Oil...

what does it mean to be perfect when perfect cannot exist?

books with commentary about the wellness and beauty industries, social media, and self care.

books with characters who are in their 20s (and trying to figure out their 20s). primarily but not exclusively lit fic.

Book list for the Anti-Brain rot challenge with Boundless press

To be clear, these are books that smell like the candle, not Gwyneth Paltrow's actual vagina. They're books with girl bosses, lip oils or maybe serums.

Often murder. Sometimes kinda culty.

Burn after reading.

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grwm to read some wellness horror.

being beautiful isn't what it seems: or, the horrors of the beauty and wellness industry [fiction list]

thought provoking fictions are the best

the types of books that even though they’re not perfect, the mystery and twists keep you up all night because you have to know what happens next/in the end.

I can’t promise you a “good” book… but I can sure as hell vouch you’ll want to devour it in one sitting.