I don’t care the genre! Could be thriller/romance/horror/drama. I just want character development and a plot that I can’t get enough of. I want that page turning, edge of your seat anxiety but I want it raw and raunchy. Any highly inappropriate suggestions?
ETA: is that smut? 😆 I’ve only heard of it, never read it. Oh and LGBTQ+ recs are more than welcome!
by heatherb2400
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Love Ignis
A Clockwork Orange
Bloom Town, Ally North
Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, Child of God, Outer Dark
Lolita – bonus is spectacularly beautiful language.
If you want some mad scientist level monsterfucking, Spread Me by Sarah Gailey is a good choice.
* Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang
* Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
All Fours by Miranda July
I don’t care for it but it might be up your alley.
# More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
# by Molly Roden Winter
Tender is the Flesh. I thought I knew how it was going to end, but I was so wrong.
In the Miso Soup – Ryū Murakami (a translator/tour guide takes an American through Tokyo nightlife, convinced the tourist is a serial killer)
Mary, An Awakening of Terror
Yellow Face
The Winter Girl by Matt Marinovich. Spent a long plane ride reading this while hyper fixated on the salaciousness while playing the same song on repeat, and oh gods the terrifying memory of how casually this man keeps dropping the most insane little bits of terrible things happening
Earthlings
Alchemised
Split into 3 parts tells the tale of a woman who while brilliant is brainwashed by a religious cult into becoming a spy during a civil war. She makes an unlikely connection and it has far-reaching consequences.
Themes of murder, torture, rape, romance, politics, religion, and fantasy etc.