Books from before 2000 that fit the more modern genre/descriptor of "weird girl literature"
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Mischief Makers
Nettie Jones
Kathy Goes to Haiti
Kathy Acker
Find Him!
Elaine Kraf
Ex wife
Ursula Parrott
Kinflicks
Lisa Alther
Don't Look at Me Like That
Diana Athill
Emily of the New Moon
L.M. Montgomery
Empathy
Sarah Schulman
Gaining Ground
Joan Barfoot
The Time of the Ghost
Diana Wynne Jones
Villete
Charlotte Brontë
The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe
Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein
The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington
Angel
Elizabeth Taylor
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
YĆko Ogawa
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Joyce Carol Oates
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy
Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann
Two Serious Ladies
Jane Bowles
Corregidora
Gayl Jones
O Caledonia
Elspeth Barker
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter
Chelsea Girls
Eileen Myles
Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
Tove Ditlevsen
The Driver's Seat
Muriel Spark
Black Swans
Eve Babitz
Ăgua Viva
Clarice Lispector
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