Weird Books for Weird People ~ Horror, Sci-Fi & more
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Weird book recommendations for weird people! These books are all strange and unusual in some way, a mix of horror books, sci-fi books & more.
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*Sees Kirsten has posted - clicks video, likes first then watches*. 😂 I already know I’ll love it, you make no bad videos. Thanks for the fantastic recs!
Aww you are too kind 💕💕
Weird books are my absolute favorite! Bunny became one of my all time favorite books! I also recommend The Cipher by Kathe Koja, Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford, and The Hole by Pyun Hye-Young for weird book lovers
Amazing, thank you for the recommendations 😊
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is one of the weirdest and most disturbing and favorites of mine. Also - My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh.
Lolita is definitely disturbing. Lapvona is one I've been considering reading 🤔
my local Barnes and Noble has a "weird books for weird folks" table (they use an eyeball emoji) and I take a pic of the 24 on display every time I visit
so far I've snapped 50 books over 4 month, and I think I've read ~6
fav books I tagged as weird on GR that I didn't see in your vid--
Mary (by Nat Cassidy)
Catherine House
Black Sheep (by Rachel Harrison)
Several People Are Typing
The Unsuitable (by Molly Pohlig-- vastly underrated! I've never heard anyone talk about it)
Juniper & Thorn
Revelator (by Daryl Gregory-- also underrated!!)
Follow Me to Ground
Defekt (also Finna, but Defekt especially)
The Locked Tomb series
I did talk about Cathrine House 😊 The Locked Tomb series for me I didn't find weird, so I decided not to put on this list.
I am interested in reading Mary though
Slade House, The Hearing Trumpet, Subcutanean, House of Leaves, & Last House on Needless Street are all great weirdo books :)
@@amymalski ooh great thank you for the recs
I’m definitely a weird book fan! Loved this video! And your outfit, it’s giving me Cinderella vibes! Love it! 👽👁️
Haha thank you
I am super intrigued by Perfume! I recently discovered that I like weird but not sure yet what my brand of weird is yet. Agreed on Our Wives Under the Sea! I read this during TAR and it was great... I also need a physical copy for my shelves too.
I do enjoy seeing what type of weird books work. There are so many different ones
Two weird novellas I enjoyed were Lanny, and Grief is the Thing with Feathers, both by Max Porter.
Ooh nice
I'm currently reading My Husband and loving it! There's a lot of lists here that have been added to my tbr that you've gotten me excited for 😊
It really is such a good book!
@@ReadingNymph books** that definitely should have said books and not lists 😅
I’ve really got into weird horror-adjacent books in the last year. If you liked these I think you’d like Monstrilio. It had a similar feeling to Bunny, Chlorine and Our Wives Under the Sea.
@@TheLunaLibrarian ooh yes Monstrilio is on my radar! Glad you liked it
I’m definitely adding some of these books on my list to read. 😊 I like the occasional weird read. Love this video! Thank you for posting this! ❤
So glad you enjoyed it
yep can agree some of these books are wierd haha.. now I've got more on my TBR!
Haha I hope you enjoy!
Catherine House!
I can't wait for your thoughts on Chlorine, it's definitely an unusual one
Our Wives Under the Sea is fantastic! I read it earlier this year, along with I Who Have Never Known Men, and The Wall (Marlen Haushofer) - all fall into this "bleak, female protagonist" sub-sub-genre I have decided exists haha. Also if you dig Vandermeer - Dead Astronauts is a wiiiiild ride.
I love finding other weird book lovers! I feel like we are far and few between 😂 some of my fave weird reads of the year have been Rouge by Mona Awad, Death in Her Hands by Otessa Moshfegh, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi and The Guest by Emma Cline!
@kkayi1995 Rouge I would love to get to soon. I will have to try the other ones 😊
I read "Perfume" years ago and absolutely loved it. I need to get the book and read it again. Amazing book!
It is such a great book
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is one of my favorite books of all time and one of the weirdest as well. I highly recommend it.
Ooh love the title 😍
To me Bunny was just silly. However, My Husband was really great. Two weird books I read this year were Earthlings by Sayaka Murata and What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman! Really out there!!! 😳
I have heard Earthlings is very unusual
Published in 1915 "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka is a wonderfully weird novella which is compellingly well written and uniquely disturbing. Would love to hear your thoughts sometime.
@josephcossey1811 that's one I ended up DNFing 😅 I see why so many people like it. The concept is great but I didn't connect with the writing style
I keep hearing about Bunny... I really want to read that one... and probably Chlorine 🤗
Both are unusual in the best ways
Hello!! I've tried to read Vita Nostra a few years ago and I dnfed it very quickly!!! Thank you for this video!!! Now I have a lot of weird books to try!!
Glad it was helpful!
I love weird books, I've added a few more to the tbr now!
I love how they make me question things
@@ReadingNymph also, I meant to ask, have you read Rouge by Mona Awad? So good and so weird.
@@jenniferlovesbooks I haven't, I want to though
I've read Rabbit Back! One weird book I always recommend is Slade House by David Mitchell (a companion novel to The Bone Clocks, which I didn't realise at the time, and I still haven't read) but it's super weird and short! Also, The Call by Peadar O'Guilin, if you're into dark worldbuilding and sadistic fairies. It has a sequel, but imo The Call is the better book. 😊
Sadistic fairies? Say no more
I love weird books! I think Bunny was OK, I loved My Husband and I who have never known men is on my all time favorite books list.
Another two excellent weird books are Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and We Spread, by Iain Reid.
Omg yes Piranesi 🤦🏼♀️ I knew I was forgetting one, that is a brilliant book
Amazing list 💖
Thank you so much 💓
i was born and raised in Ukraine so thank you for mentioning Ukrainian book! that was surprising haha 😃 My Husband was yum! now tangerines and clementines 🍊 will always remind me of this book! Again, Chlorine…i need more mind-blowing mermaid horror books so badly 🤪🤪
🥰 glad you liked the video. We definitely need more Mermaid horror
😵💫 Yay, Orpheus Builds a Girl! I hope you enjoy it!!!!
I also have The Bloody Chamber on my tbr. If you would want to buddy read it, just let me know 😊
On my tbr i also have The Athenian murders by José Carlos Somoza which has the potential to also be quite weird
Nice! I have no idea when I will get to The Bloody Chamber but that would be good if you haven't read it before then
I love, love, love this video. There are some great recommendations, and I think half of them are on my Amazon wish list 😂. I have seen the movie of The Virgin Suicides and I still remember it to this day so I am curious as to what the book would be like compared to the movie. Also, The House of Leaves is in the weird book category, as you know I read it earlier this month. I still don't know how I feel about the book, it was supposed to be scary but it wasn't for me the ending made it all so weird...so, so weird!!!
I'm so pleased you liked it 😊
House of Leaves does intimidate me haha
@@ReadingNymph it did me as well but then I started reading it and it was easier than it looked. There were a few times I wanted to throw the book but I think that was more a case of me than the actual book itself 😊
I love psychological books I will need to read my husband.
I couldn’t get on with The Virgin Suicides.
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan was very odd, I’m not sure I enjoyed it, but I’d love to hear your opinion of it.
Ooh good to know!
Unusual
That was an interesting overwiew although I do not really like weird books.... they make me feel uncomfortable for a long time.
@@sb8923 they do tend to stick with you for a while
Unfortunately there's very infamously a _lot_ of racism in Lovecraft's works. Even what he named his pet cat (which would be a blocked slur to write out on UA-cam).
So while he was definitely influential... idk. I don't really feel comfortable recommending him or looking past those elements of his life and his politics and his body of work.
That's very understandable
I didn't enjoy it, but Earthlings is deffo weird.
Yeah I've heard about that one being rather bizarre
Sorry I was looking for an unusual emoji and sent unusual instead. 😂🤪👀
Haha that's fine
🩻 x-rays are weird let's go with that
i really hope you love The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter has a bit of a weird writing style but i love it, i didn't finish all the stories from my time reading it in university BUT
i think you mentioned not really listening to music but there is a song that i feel like must have been referencing a story from The Bloody Chamber (the story is The Erl-King).
the song is called the fruits by Paris Paloma, and there's a specific line that i feel references The Erl-King and if you're interested you should listen to the song after you read the story 👀👀
the song is INTENSELY feminine rage and choral and beautiful
i plan to fully read The Bloody Chamber probably in the fall because the vibes are unmatched
okay this comment could be a short story itself lmao
Ooh that sounds brilliant, I will have to do that when I get around to reading it. Thank you 🥰
Haha I love the fish
Have you read:
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar).
A Botanical Daughter (Noah Medlock).
A Short Stay in Hell (Steven L. Peck).
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata).
The First Bad Man (Miranda July).
BTW: Southern Reach Trilogy. Great.
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I haven't but Botanical Daughter is in my tbr 😊