in the zone: an introduction to zonal lit
coined by phil ford and jf martel, co-hosts of “weird studies,” zonal literature is a term that refers to narratives set in reality-bent spaces. in these liminal zones, ordinary life is suspended, altered, other. the rules here are different, even if things may look the same.






🔪🩸👩❤️💋👩baddies on quests🐇🥰🧚♀️
Following women on journeys to do weird and maybe violent things.






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!






fever dreams
novels/novellas that feel akin to a fever dream, surreal, inchoate, strange, dream logic






dystopian book recs
dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.






Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.






Cli-fi/Eco-Fiction
Fiction that deals with climate change. Books may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change.






Timelessness, as in: the absence of Time






From one place to Another place
Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel





