on the shorter side but really easy to fall into. a very surreal read and one of my favorites!
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a small story about a foreign exchange student who has a strange relationship with her new roommate. many twists. i won‘t spoil.
written by musician Jenny Hval (whose music i also recommend)
prerequisites: u gotta be a lil sapphic and lil weird for this one. if you enjoyed saltburn, you’ll enjoy this.
Jan 7, 2024
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Isabel Allende you have done it again! A magnificent short story with beautiful writing, incredible characters, and such a beautiful world.
I also finally read Paradise Rot and let me tell ya that was an eerie little book!!! The visuals of decay were so descriptive and took me right into the apartment. Brilliant, disturbing, and gorgeously written
Mar 6, 2024
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the doll's alphabet by camilla grudova - strange, fabulous, surreal short stories that play around with the grotesque, gothic and uncanny
fen by daisy johnson - short story collection set in the same setting, reads as if fables or myths
drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk - less overtly weird but hypnotic, concerned with astrology, william blake and morals. eccentric and delightful and one of the very very very best books ever written
the fish by lloyd jones - oh i love this one.. told through the point of view a young boy whose sister gives birth to a fish. devastating and compelling and strange
swanfolk by kristin ómarsdóttir - a young spy is entranced by a group of swan women. very dreamy and whimsical but also investigating ideas of power / sanity / violence
lament for julia by susan taubes - novella + short stories, one of the best books i've ever read. the novella is disturbing and strange, told through the POV of a demon who lives inside julia's i and wickedly controls / recounts her life
agree w the pisces by melissa broder - romance with a merman that is fabulous and fun and weird
audition by pip adam - a scifi novel about prison abolishment that plays with a really unique, experimental writing style. i loved it even though i traditionally don't like scifi/fantasy
pale fire by vladimir nabokov - poem, fictional poet, forward, index; such a weird, strange, experimental, confident and unusual structure with a plot that is as equally as strange by the time you're finished
any kafka too...obviously
hope this helps, i love weird lit ♡
Jun 1, 2024
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lizzy mcalpine my beloved. haven’t gone a second without this playing since it came out
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