weird little books you can read in one sitting
created by femaleprivilege
last updated June, 2026
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
EYETOOTH
Mars Adler
Root Rot
Saskia Nislow
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh
You Should Have Left
Daniel Kehlmann
Graveyard Shift
M.L. Rio
A Leopard-Skin Hat
Anne Serre
On Earth As It Is Beneath
Ana Paula Maia
Bury Your Dead
Of Cattle and Men
A Horse at Night: On Writing
Amina Cain
The Young Man
Annie Ernaux
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
Isabella Hammad
So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire
Amara Moira
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
Danielle Dutton
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Valeria Luiselli
Females
Andrea Long Chu
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Pedro the Vast
SimĂłn LĂłpez Trujillo
The Witch
Marie NDiaye
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Ring Shout
P. DjĂšlĂ Clark
Killing Stella
Marlen Haushofer
The Dry Heart
Natalia Ginzburg
Lithium
Malén Denis
Role Play
Clara Drummond
City of Rats
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