Older books (pre-2000) that fit into the more modern category of weird girl fiction. Suggestions welcome!
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last updated April, 2026
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
The Door
Magda SzabĂł
Find Him!
Elaine Kraf
Black Swans
Eve Babitz
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
L.M. Montgomery
The Time of the Ghost
Diana Wynne Jones
Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
Tove Ditlevsen
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Cassandra at the Wedding
Dorothy Baker
I Love Dick
Chris Kraus
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Lorrie Moore
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Sex and Rage
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
White Oleander
Janet Fitch
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
O Caledonia
Elspeth Barker
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay
Hangsaman
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Edible Woman
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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