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I got into a spiral last year where I began to mostly only read books about women who are going thru some shit. Would love to continue my journey if you have any additional recs! Here are the books I've read so far:
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Guest by Emma Cline
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton (not completely tortured)
for nicky999doors inspired by their my year of r&r rec <3
May 15, 2024
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For riotgrrrl
This is quite hard at I pretty much only read books by and about women, and there are parts of most books that could be considered ātorturedā. So my loose criteria were books that are set predominantly in the mind of the woman and deal with their mental illness or societally unconventional behaviour.
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
I Love Dick - Chris Kraus
The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
Milk Fed - Melissa Broder
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
A Touch of Jen - Beth Morgan
Cursed Bread - Sophie Mackintosh
Death Valley - Mellisa Broder
May 15, 2024
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Joan Didion.
Camila Sosa Villada.
Mona Awad.
Ottessa Moshfegh.
Yukio Mishima.
Mary Gaitskill.
Books I'm currently reading and liking so far:
A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara.
Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu.
Hunger-MartĆn CaparrĆ³s.
Books I've read in the past and liked:
Mist-Miguel de Unamuno.
Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada.
Bunny-Mona Awad.
Death In Her Hands-Ottessa Moshfegh.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh.
Animal-Lisa Taddeo.
This Is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill.
Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs.
Cultish-Amanda Montell.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed-Jon Ronson.
Rosario Tijeras-Jorge Franco.
Educated-Tara Westover.
Maus-Art Spiegelman.
Sep 24, 2024
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Books by women that make me feel melancholy, introspective, indolent & antsy all at once.
Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
The Gathering by Anne Enright
My holy trinity of "the feels" ugh
Feb 22, 2025
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as we all (pi fyi users) know, being into shit is cool.
iāve been thinking about how in the early days of facebook rather than liking pages you would ābecome a fanā of them and i just love that verbage. so sweet and precious
Feb 23, 2024
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As Perfectly Imperfect subscribers know, being into shit is cool. This was an early rec I made on the PI.FYI app, inspired by Facebookās ālikeā feature formerly being called ābecome a fanā because I find the verbiage so sweet and so supportive. Itāll always be way cooler to be an embarrassing superfan than to have 0 interests.Ā
Jan 26, 2025
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Get out of the house and be in the world but in a cozy, private kinda way. Life changing
Jan 27, 2024