i discovered these when i was identifying as a cishet woman in college and have realized EVERY literary sad girl reads these
created by christa
last updated December, 2025
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
Phoebe Gloeckner
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Emma
Jane Austen
Happy Hour
Marlowe Granados
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
The Crying Book
Heather Christle
The Possession
Annie Ernaux
Simple Passion
Paradise Rot
Jenny Hval
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
Whip Smart: A Memoir
Melissa Febos
Bluets
Maggie Nelson
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden
Circe
Madeline Miller
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