light of my life, fire of my loins - obsessions

books featuring obsession, from the light-hearted and quirky to the dark and twisted

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created by grim.

last updated August, 2026

29 books

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews

Lobster

Guillaume Lecasble

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be

Marieke Bigg

The Coin

Yasmin Zaher

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Pig

Matilde Pratesi

Hard Copy

Fien Veldman

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind

My Husband

Maud Ventura

Kitten

Stacey Yu

Exalted

Anna Dorn

Uzumaki

Junji Ito

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Misery

Stephen King

Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang

A Novel Obsession

Caitlin Barasch

A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

Natural Beauty

Ling Ling Huang

Audition

Ryū Murakami

Sky Daddy

Kate Folk

Crash

J.G. Ballard

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Comments

grim.OP

I've been looking for this list and didn't find it so I thought I'd make my own! Featuring books from my library (read, tbr, and interested) but I'm open to any suggestions!

ttomv

I see you're currently reading 'Yellowface'. In a way, this could also belong here.

grim.OP

Hmm so far she seems obsessed with reading twitter threads and that's not really weird enough for me 🤔 but we'll see, I'm only halfway through!

ayzrules

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OFF TO THE RACES MENTION WOOOOOO the way that song went triple platinum on my youtube to mp3 pirated playlist 15 years ago...

Don't Let The Forest In by CG Drews might fit? It's YA, but I thought the mutual fucked up obsession vibes came through well!

grim.OP

It's actually a quote from Lolita by Nabokov! But I do love Off to the Races and that is absolutely how I listened to it 15 years ago too omg 😂 Thanks for the rec! It's on my tbr too 👀

valkyrie_221B

Alexa this list rocks, play "An Unhealthy Obsession" on repeat please

Bacchus

OMG YES

valkyrie_221B

great song!!

alexindex

Also add Mariah Carey's "Obsessed" to the list!

alexz

so obsessed

grim.OP

It's not my fault you're like in love with me 🙄

pachinko

The Yellow Wallpaper would fit here! or Frankenstein, perhaps

grim.OP

Ooo definitely The Yellow Wallpaper!

pachinko

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oh and When We Cease to Understand the World is all about obsessive scientists and mathematicians! (but maybe worth giving it a read to see if it’s weird enough)

grim.OP

I'll add it for now, it sounds amazing!

Bacchus