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Asian Authors
An on-going attempt to track Asian authors in my Interested/TBR (and hopefully Finished) categories. Books are generally fiction/lit fic/fantasy with some memoirs. Authors span West to East Asia, the Asian diaspora, and mixed-race folx.
Cover Porn: The Lit Fic Edition
Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic
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This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated).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!
Disability Rep Books
Book with main characters that are disabled. Both physical and mental included. Eg chronic/terminal illness, physical disabilities, mental illness, neurodivergance, addiction, injury and injury recovery, symptoms causing health issues etc. Doesn't have to be a diagnosed condition. Not necessarily by authors with shared experiences. Books any be any genre. Added only 1st book of series unless there are different characters.
Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments! No "magic cure" books.
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
Corporate angst
free me from this capitalistic hellscape!
reading about work > working
fiction that explores some aspect of the modern capitalist hellscape, whether high-tech corporate, blue collar, or something in between.
Short Books for a Slump
Shorter books (around 200 pages) to get out of a reading slump or to help pad your stats. Comment if you want recommendations, I’ve read a lot of these.
Women in Sports
Books across genres featuring women in sports
canadian weird girls
weird girl adjacent books set in canada or by canadian authors
Giller Prize Winners
Books that have won Canada's largest literary prize from 1994 to present
Weird Older Women
List formerly known as weird girl elders. "Weird girl literature" books with characters that are over 30.
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Giller Prize Winners
a list of past winners from the giller prize—one of canada's most prestigious literary prizes
general fiction
a lot of eldest sister trauma
