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You know, the kind of books you stare at a wall after finishing, like, “what did I just read?” Books that are trippy or odd or dark or just weird. Books that you don’t totally know how to explain, but stick in your head for a long time afterwards. If you have any recommendations like that, let me know please!!
Jan 19, 2025

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The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim Annie Bot by Sierra Grier Brat by Gabriel Smith Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Jan 26, 2025
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‘Geek Love’ by Katherine Dunn
Jan 20, 2025
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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers. The entire book is written from the pov of a female cannibalistic serial killer. It's a bit on the gory side for obvious reasons, but I found it to be a great read.
Jan 20, 2025
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the wild boys by william burroughs, absurd in both content and formatting
Jan 20, 2025
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out - natsuo kirino
Jan 20, 2025
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dhalgren - samuel delany jr - william gaddis (also the recognitions) bright lights, big city - jay mcinerney
Jan 20, 2025
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definitely annihilation by jeff vandermeer!
Jan 20, 2025
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I really enjoyed Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. It's a YA queer fantasy with religious imagery in a horror setting. fantastic novel sparked by the pandemic, one of the best novels i've read in the last couple years
Jan 20, 2025
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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It’s so beautifully written and super trippy and every time I try to describe what it‘s about, it’s hard to do it justice!
Jan 20, 2025
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lilsolano literally my favourite book ever. INCREDIBLE recommendation
Jan 20, 2025
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the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman. the og weird girl book. especially potent if you read a short biography of the author beforehand. the lovely bones by alice sebold. to feel both horrified of & also in love with the world. brutes by dizz tate. because being a middle school girl is truly insane. my year of rest & relaxation. if you ever feel like you exist in a world inside your own head that is entirely separate from the rest of society.
Jan 20, 2025
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Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica Paradise Rot - Jenny Hval The Haar - David Sodergren
Jan 20, 2025
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Jan 20, 2025
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I Will Teach You Retribution by Timothy Moore Toughlahoma by Christian TeBordo Sex With My Family by Jessica Anne
Jan 20, 2025
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do androids dream of electric sheep if you like philosophical sci fi
Jan 19, 2025
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The employees - Olga Ravn The hole - hiroko oyamada Gentlemen callers - Corinne hoex
Jan 19, 2025
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Anything by Thomas Pynchon
Jan 19, 2025
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Jan 19, 2025
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Jan 19, 2025
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check out Helen Oyeyemi!
Jan 19, 2025
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Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Jan 19, 2025
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke!!
Jan 19, 2025

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oh! hello weird lit pal! i also belong to that club! a few favorites of mine: ‘it lasts forever then it’s over’ by anne de marcken ‘sift’ by alissa hattman ‘woodworm’ by layla martinez ‘annihilation’ by jeff vandermeer ’the membranes’ by chi ta-wei ‘the complete stories of leonora carrington’ by leonora carrington… she’s the og weirdo and i adore her this isn’t a novella but i love it so much… ‘the wall’ by marlen haushofer! i haven’t read this one but i heard ‘ice’ by anna kavan is good! i hope you find something you enjoy ✨
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I’ve loved a good weird, creepy, and/or magical story ever since I first read The Bloody Chamber. Here’s a few I recommend: Stranger things happen - Kelly link white cat, black dog - Kelly Link her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter the Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enríquez When Things get dark - Edited by Ellen Datlow The Frangipani Hotel - Violet Kupersmith
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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 ♡

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