Just finished How to Kill Your Family and I want someone who feels like that "heroine". Doesn't have to be a clever murderer, just a woman enraged by her life and everything in it.
I've got a craving for a crazy lady and want to read some >REALLY<unhinged anger for the next two weeks.
How to Kill Your Family was a great book btw. Would HIGHLY reccommend it
by Small-Guarantee6972
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Annihilation
Try The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
Hench by Natalie Walschott
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novil
just finished Anji Kills a King and it’s basically two females somewhat like this who are constantly pissed at each other. It’s sort of a medium/low fantasy west marches story.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
eileen by otessa moshfegh though it’s more of an unrest(?) than a rage — she’s miserable and hates everything about her life but i don’t think anger quite fits it. it’s perfect for this time of year if you’re in the northern hemisphere, too!
Wool by Hugh Howey
Tess of the D’urbervilles. Or Rebecca
Gone Girl
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander is one of the most bad-ass characters that I’ve read. Shrewd and ruthless, she should be right up your alley.
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. An elderly lady is fed up with life and arranges to be left alone on the planet when everyone else is evacuated.
Big Swiss
Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
Jane is badass!
My favorite genre! You might also like:
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
All Fours by Miranda July
Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel
Wreck and Order by Hannah Tennant-Moore
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
(Haven’t read How to Kill Your Family, gonna have to now!)
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Gideon the Ninth
“Animal” by Lisa Taddeo
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
*The Poisonwood Bible* by Barbara Kingsolver
The Trespasser by Tana French
The 13th Tale Diana Setterfeild. 2 strong believable Women and a dark mystery. The House is almost like a character too.