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 “tortured”. 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