aaaaand here’s the catch, almost all of my favorite books are considered sad / depressive, I want to stay in the aesthetic lane of those books but on the other side of the spectrum topic wise.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s work, Bunny by Mona Awad, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder, Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey, Just Kids by Patti Smith, Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, The White Album by Joan Didion, George Orwell’s work, Sylvia Plath’s work, The Virgin Suicides, Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata, Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami..
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The Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toewes (who is the queen of sad girl lit) has all the ingredients you need for sad girl lit, but is joyful and funny and inspiring