Recs if you like Where the Wild Ladies Are...
the feminine imagination in east asian literature
a collection of inventive, incisive, and invigorating works of contemporary and speculative fiction by women writers of East Asia and its diaspora.
Asian-Inspired Fiction
Books set in an Asian or Asian-inspired setting or incorporates elements of an Asian culture or mythology. Only the first book in a series is listed.
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, who is no longer curating lists on Pagebound. 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!
Japanese fiction to read on the train
Asian Magical Realism
I realized that in Asia, magical and supernatural beliefs are steeped in our day-to-day lives. It’s so normalized that we or I, didn’t even think about it. So, I wanted to read more books in this category where magic occurs in everyday life
Just Like Other Girls
Weird girl literature, horror, and nonfiction novels, short stories, anthologies, etc.
A long list of short story collections
Single author short story collections
Short story collections in any genre, all stories by a single author.
short story collections by women
short fiction rules!!!
girls gone wild
as in, feral
Paper Cranes in the Rain.
Japanese Lit Recommendations
My favorite Japanese literature translated into English. I use the term literature very broadly here--it's not genre specific. This list includes some manga; I've only listed the first volume for each series.
I've got lots more Japanese lit on my TBR, so I'll continue to update as I find new favorites that I'd like to recommend. ✌️😁
Translated Lit
Please note that this is by no means a fully comprehensive list. This is a start in a journey to try to read more globally, and I would love to hear your translated literature recommendations
Books in Translation
Foreign literature
Japanese Fiction
