“This book is so beautifully written that it had me from the very first page. I tore through it in two days, and, yes, I cried at the end.”

As a Senior Editor at BuzzFeed, I cover books and politics, and I also created the daily vocabulary-boosting word game SAT Scramble.

I previously filed these kinds of books to a shelf in my Goodreads account labeled "women's rights and women's wrongs," but weird girl definitely works, too. 

Her stories are full of darkly beautiful feminist horror and queer characters. Plus, her adult retelling of the story about the girl with the green ribbon on her neck, which she calls "The Husband Stitch," gives me chills just thinking about it. If you agree that being a woman is a horror movie, this book is for you. 

I loved Keiko so much. Her voice is quirky and original, but in a way that feels really lived in to me. This book made me laugh, bite my nails, and root for Keiko to find her own path in the world. It's a quick read, but it's stuck with me for years now (I originally picked it up in 2018). 

I had so much fun reading this book! Janina is such a kooky narrator, and with one or two major exceptions, I kinda wish she were my neighbor so I could drop by and hear what she's up to. It's a bit slower-paced than the summary suggests, but if you like a good character study, I totally recommend it. 

There's lots of sex, lots of raw emotion, lots of laughs, and lots of mess. There's also a perimenopause plotline that was weirdly educational. Thank you, Miranda July, for teaching me that vertigo can be a perimenopause symptom. 

The prose is darkly funny, but a foreboding sense of impending doom runs through it all. I love every Shirley Jackson book I've had the pleasure of reading, but this one is my favorite because Merricat is such a wonderfully unreliable narrator, and the gothic atmosphere is on point. 

This book is so beautifully written that it had me from the very first page. I tore through it in two days, and, yes, I cried at the end. It's been a few months since I read it, but I think about it at least once a week. 

Reviewers say it's haunting and devastating, and the writing has been compared to Margaret Atwood and Franz Kafka. I love a dystopian tale, and I'm very intrigued by this premise. 

It's a book-within-a-book story that goes from Chicago to Lagos to outer space that looks totally one of a kind. I'm trying to avoid seeing too many spoilers, but it looks like there may be some crossover from her fictional creations into reality, and I love a good mindbending plot. 

"Unfortunately, he ends up randomly dying, and Lillian is left dealing with the fallout while also trying to figure out if she is some sort of iconic, scary, powerful witch. It is laugh-out-loud funny; I couldn't put it down from start to finish, and there's nothing I love more than an unhinged female character. Let them be insane! Men are constantly insane. We have completely psychopathic individuals running governments and corporations; let a girl be a little crazy over a guy who treated her terribly! Bring back toxic women!!!!"

As a millennial with no hope of ever buying a home, Margo's struggle is so relatable to me. Like, what's a little stalking and some light trespassing when your dream home is on the line?

I started watching the film adaptation of this book (which stars Anne Hathaway, by the way) a while back, and I kept wishing it were a book instead so I could read it. Well, my wish came true!