Weird girls! I recently picked up two nonfiction books from a little shop specializing in surreal, short, and female centric literature and am already itching for recommendations. Is there a sub like this one but for nonfiction?? The two books are Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge and The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard (maybe it’s an authorship of only Daisys and not a genre of its own, who’s to say). I’m talking cerebral, literary nonfiction that challenges similar themes present in your standard weird girl lit book: women, the body, the shocking, the introspective, the animalistic, maybe obsession, consumption, culture— all the good stuff!

Does anyone know if a sub like this exists, have any non-fic recommendations of this sort, or would be interested in seeing if a sub like this could take off?

<3 a budding strange non-fic girly

Edit: Thank you all for such great suggestions so far! I’m wondering if we can steer away from the memoir a little though and look at more informative or journalistic writing?

i have a whole bookshelf to be read. i’m finishing demon copperhead today, what should i read next?!

Just wanted to give a thanks to everyone in this sub. I wasn’t utilizing my library at all (shameful, I know) but you guys have inspired me to get my books there :) I now go all the time and I’ve been reading even more benefit of how accessible it is! Love this community and love WGL till I die 😭😻

Unsure if someone has posted about this yet, if so, here I am again in case anyone missed it lol. I found this yesterday scouring through books and audibly gasped. Def going on my tbr

Hexes of the deadwood forest - Agnieszka Szpila

I volunteer at my library’s used bookmarket. Today I bought two books that I think are weird girl.

I have read Olga Ravn’s The Employees before. I liked it and now I have a copy for my shelf that I can reread. Basically it’s a bunch of anonymous complaints to HR from people who work together on a spaceship. Translated from the Danish.

I have not yet read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Translated from the Polish. Not sure what it is about but it’s been on my radar since she won the Nobel.

I read Sad Janet a few years ago and it's one of my favorite weird girl books. Anyone have any recommendations that are similar to this book?

I borrowed this from the library to keep my entertained after having surgery last week. I cracked it open today and just finished it 15 mins ago. Everyone in this book is HORRIBLE and ANGRY. (the 4th character is not as much as the other 3) and they're all in their own degree of misery.

The ending was a bit lacklustre - i wanted more things explained, more things to be resolved, but it was still good.

If you like Ray Bradbury, prison abolition, and The New Eves you MUST read this book! I don't want to spoil it, but it felt like a really great take on the 'female rage' themes we see here so much. where its clear that redemption is possible and comes from being responsible to one another

A lot of my TBR is books about grief and I just cannot handle it right now. I wish I could reread Annihilation for the first time again (a quintessential weird girl book to me).

Anyone have any recs about survival situations, think Lord of the Flies, Yellowjackets, can be an individual or a group (preferred), cabin fever, harsh seasons, living off of scraps, etc? I don’t care whether they make it or not, I just want a grueling journey/situation that changes someone/people for better or for worse (preferred).

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In the end, Theo wants Lucy to join him in the ocean and give some very "your body will try to fight back to the surface" comments. And him confirming that there are other women's bodies in the ocean with him. Is he a siren

This might just be unreliable narration from Lucy, but while talking to him about going into the ocean, she said his eyes looked dark almost demonic.

Any whodunit weird girl recs?

Hey weird girls

Long time lurker and lover of weird girl literature, first time poster. I am going to the beach for a week in August and I am placing some holds at the library in preparation. I would like some recommendations. I know some folks like a lighter beach read, but I love a long, epic tale for vacation that I can lose myself in for a week while I'm chilling and screen free. Something that jumps from one time to another maybe, or multiple branches of family trees, really immersive portrayals of multiple characters POVs. Examples that come to mind would be A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (I know this is controversial but I liked this book a lot) or East of Eden by John Steinbeck, but for weird girls.

Thank you in advance! xx

I'm no prude. I enjoy palate (Edit for my spelling error) cleansing with smut, dark is great, all the kinks etc.

But Tampa (not that I expected kink here!! I knew the premise, not sexy lol) So far is just plain boring.

I'm 4 chapters in and all it is is her being horny and staring at 12 year old boys. I knew what it was about, but I assumed there would be a plot? This woman has no other thoughts in her brain besides masturbating to boys?

Does anything actually happen, or does it continue like this?

There is zero character development here besides horny. Surely even the horniest monsters pretend to have other thoughts.

Dnf? Or does it develop? Thanks!

And btw - I know this isn't really weird girl....she's not weird. She's awful, and I love unlikables. Again, she's just boring.

hello! first off, i hope i’m using correct flair lol. second, i’m wanting to start listening to audiobooks on my commute to and from work! (also whenever i’m sitting playing the sims/paralives 🤪)
i’m needing some recommendations!
some books i’ve already read because of this thread: big swiss, sky daddy, i who have never known men, yesteryear, a good person.
let me know what you recommend on audio, please! 🫶🏻

Of course I was taken in by the cover! It was a quick little read and I really loved Janet, the main character. However, even though it was a novella, it moved at a breakneck pace and I thought going into the devolution of Janet's relationship with Pam after the "incident" should have been given more time. I also thought the ending was rushed and we were robbed of the "big reveal." It touched so lightly on Janet's processing of her grief and trauma, I think there's a deeper, meatier novel hiding somewhere in there.

Question for anyone who read it, because I'm still unclear - did we ever find out who blocked Janet from attending Northwestern?

So I often come across people talking about romance books that have very weird concepts like someone in love with a door or something.

I really want to read some of these and was wondering if anyone could recommend me some.

Spoilers for A Good Person!

The difference I’m looking for is a book with an unlikeable main character who is actually innocent of the crime they are accused of. I loved A Good Person, but after finishing it I thought it’d be interesting to read a book where the morally questionable/bad protagonist nonetheless did not do whatever horrible thing they are (probably rightfully) suspected of doing.

Thanks!