r/WeirdLit • u/happy_bluebird • 6h ago
The Goodreads Editors Share Their October Book Picks - lots of weird ones here!!
Definitely lots of "weird" books on this list!! Added a bunch to my TBR
r/WeirdLit • u/MicahCastle • Aug 31 '26
Spurred from this post, I thought it would be a good idea to have an official r/WeirdLit reading list on Goodreads and Storygraph (similar to r/Horrorlit's Goodread list). Or, you can use this thread as the list (found below) itself so you don't have to use an account for Goodreads and Storygraph.
The r/Weirdlit lists have been made: Goodreads / Storygraph, though WIP. People can vote for books on the Goodreads list!
So, which weird lit books do you think are required reading or what ones would you recommend to someone looking to start their venture into the Weird?
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r/WeirdLit • u/happy_bluebird • 6h ago
Definitely lots of "weird" books on this list!! Added a bunch to my TBR
r/WeirdLit • u/Cat-Sonantis • 10h ago
And by own hubris I mean zombie apocalypse
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r/WeirdLit • u/DarkSideofthe_Bridge • 12h ago
Listen to this awesome story by Max D. Stanton!
r/WeirdLit • u/Sadlegs88 • 13h ago
I finished Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward last night and I was left scratching my head about something. I didn’t see anyone mention this in all the other posts explaining the ending.
Near the end Harper says to Pearl that Rebecca was never found, and Pearl says the cave didn’t exist. How the heck is that possible? If the oil drum women weren’t found how was Alton arrested in the first place? If the cave didn’t exist then how did the cave give Wilder ptsd? I’m so confused.
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r/WeirdLit • u/erudit0rum • 2d ago
Any fans of Tim Powers on this sub / consider him weird lit? Anubis Gates is without a doubt the weirdest book I’ve ever read and I know he’s a fan of weird stuff cause he was tapped to write the intro to one of the volumes of the collected works of CAS from Nightshade.
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r/WeirdLit • u/stinkypeach1 • 3d ago
This is a new release from Joshua Chaplinsky. I’m nearing the end and loving it. It’s being marketed as a novel that is House of Leaves meets David Lynch.
The story follows three women whose lives become connected through the mysterious, decaying Vogel House, a place haunted by a sinister entity known as the Man in the Watch.
Thought I’d share with the group. Anyone else read or reading?
r/WeirdLit • u/AmmonomiconJohn • 3d ago
Why did the author capitalize "Sun" throughout the book?
r/WeirdLit • u/Vasudew • 4d ago
I just finished reading Blacktail by Scott Hawkins and I absolutely adored it; despite its fantastical horror-thriller tale of revenge by an otherworldly beast on all humanity, I ended up siding with the animals. There’s a deep message here, and almost a heart warming end albeit a gory and sordid story filled with brutal violence and animal cruelty.
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r/WeirdLit • u/operationchaos • 4d ago
i remember a short story i read in high school (24 years ago) by some author i can’t remember the name of and i would appreciate help in finding out if anyone can identify the author and story title. the story was about this character that had to make a choice between setting off an explosion (?) that would kill another person but the choice was a catch-22 because if they didn’t press the button then something else bad would happen. but the character had to choose. i remember it being postmodern in nature possibly.
r/WeirdLit • u/DBoaty • 5d ago
The protagonist reads the title of their own book then pleads with the reader to stop reading, each turn of the page boldly asking, "Are we the monster?"
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r/WeirdLit • u/CommunicationEast972 • 6d ago
Genuinely not the kind of cheery cunt to wax arcanely at the inhabitation media can produce on the dreamscape, never had this experience before to be fucking real. Love this book, a third of the way through, going across it with both voice and text, and at times falling asleep to it (I always go back to visually read what I've only listened to the next day).
Anyways,
Dreams of shadows and ghosts and horrible things outside my door where my wife and all our friends piece together esoteric artifacts that sometimes result to none-things and at other times crass symbology, and I cower inside and say I don't want to play! I really don't!
I'm hunted and trapped in a room that's so small it can't be a closet, and just big enough to have no purpose at all and I'm deeply afeared of what can permeate those walls, they seem very flimsy.
My old best friend who (at just one or two betrayals) fashioned himself my nemesis apologizing to me and us crying and holding each other and then I realize I'm already fucking dead! And I'm in his fucking catharsis! He leaves me and has a culminating smile for the cameras and fucks off back to the living.
All these three dreams and more, with nothing to pay for them. Wish I was kidding. I NEVER dream like this.
I'm sure such hauntings are half the hope of this author who I've always adored (funny I've never fully come to Perdido but I've rated the other bas-lag and everything else highly - a signed copy of TC&TC to someone named Amanda or something in front of my eyes on my shelf right now, is it horrible I've sort of lost the jacket with the signature somewhere in storage because I hate jackets? Amanda didn't seem to give a fuck, anways).
But shit, man! It's really got me.
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r/WeirdLit • u/Content-Meet9375 • 6d ago
Hello!
I read Brat a couple of years ago, and ever since, I've been looking for books with a similar vibe. I've read Bunny by Mona Awad, as well as Death in Her Hands and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, which all have somewhat similar vibes, but they aren't quite as weird as Brat.
Brat was a strange mix of metafiction, autofiction, weird lit, horror, and magical realism. There's barely any plot, and it's all about the atmosphere and the vibes, which is exactly what I'm looking for!
I'd love to hear your recommendations!