I’m in need of book recommendations. I enjoy mostly weird / sad girl fiction, so anything like Moshfegh, Jillian – Halle Butler, Melissa Broder etc.
Some books I also enjoyed:
The Rachel incident – Caroline O’Donoghue
The bell jar – Sylvia Plath
Play it as it lays – Joan Didion
The girls – Emma Cline
Luster – Raven Leilani
House of the spirits – Isabel Allende
Animal – Lisa Taddeo
Wet Paint – Chloe Ashby
! I don’t really get along with Mona Awad !
Thanks :))
by Prestigious_Milk31
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A Sad Girl/Tragic Girl story would be “The Glass Castle” which a memoir of someone growing up in poverty with her irresponsible/abusive parents. It gets introspective and slice-of-life.
This next recommendation is like if “Catcher in the Rye” was told through the lens of a young girl or if the girl in Lolita was narrating her story and she was like a younger version Holden—“Lullabies for Little Criminals”. Very introspective. A young impoverished girl called “wise beyond her years” because she had no choice otherwise.
For surreal fiction, “Tale for the Time Being”. Nao is so understated in her weirdness and introspection. She is a delight to read, even if her story is a tragic, because it’s like she’s a classmate you don’t really talk to having lunch with you.
You might like “Wink, Poppy, Midnight” for something more like a teen drama than a literary tragedy. It’s been some years since I read it and I didn’t like it because it wasn’t my cup of tea, but Wink makes Choices that make you go “what the fuck, girl”. It’s like if the weirdest girl in high school actually decided to toy with the queen bee and the queen bee let her.
Kelly Link’s “Get In Trouble” is a collection of surreal/weird urban fantasy fiction that mostly revolve around strange or unusual young women.