Recs if you like Just Watch Me...

these books are both aligned with and offer a queering of ‘weird girl literature’, a genre that manipulates horror, dark comedy, and/or surrealist elements to excavate the internal world of complex and unconventional characters. they are deviant, daring, and perverse reads for the weird queers among us.

*girl in quotation marks to allow this list to extend beyond the binary. recommendations welcome!

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

Following women on journeys to do weird and maybe violent things.

Beautiful books for when your monthly reading roundup needs a little facelift 😉

books with unhinged narrators that feel impossible to put down

Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic

books for fans of Lena Dunham’s Girls <3

a collection of books im interested in which are releasing this year (2026). no particular order

Be the trend setter of your book club or bookish friend group by getting to know the authors of next year’s publication cycle. These books are all by new talent in the publishing world from both the Big 5 and small, traditional publishers.

Be sure to also check out these authors on social media for ARC opportunities, and show these authors some love by requesting a purchase with your local library, or pre-ordering a copy yourself!

Just another day at the office 🤪

Weird, sometimes obsessive & typically unusual

i am an odd gross sad silly girl, and maybe you are too

She’s burnt out and depressed but she’s trying her best!✨🕺

books in which internet culture and social media are a theme

Books that are considered "weird girl" lit or have "unhinged" women.

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