Recs if you like Shit Cassandra Saw...

...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.

I love it when titles break the naming conventions of books. I’ve had enough a blank of blank and blank, I want something NEW, something STRANGE, something that immediately makes me check out the synopsis with the excitement of a dog who has seen a squirrel 🐿️

these books look back 👀

always accepting suggestions for books with eyes featured prominently on the cover

Weird girl literature, horror, and nonfiction novels, short stories, anthologies, etc.

these will probably leave you staring at a wall for a while. definition of absurdism: intentionally ridiculous or bizarre behavior; belief that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe

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

Short stories are delightful, skillful, and engaging! Don’t like a story? Put it down. Love a specific author? Buy a collection of their works. Want to find new authors? Read an anthology. They can span any genre and go in any direction—have fun reading them!

All these short story collections have at least one story in them that I'm never. ever. going to forget. Maybe they'll settle deep into your grey matter too?

retellings of mythology classics set in a contemporary setting

She’s strange. She’s unsettling. She’s becoming something else. And maybe the worst thing about her is that you understand her…

Gross girls, girlhood, and the like

Books that make you hotter and fill you with righteous feminine power