Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

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top 10 books for freaky little weirdos

let me tell you about some of my favourite weird books for weird girls (gender neutral). I didn't realise how many of these were books in translation, but I love it.

Books Mentioned (all bookshop.org links are affiliate links)
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781529017250
The Discomfort of Evening by Lukas Rijneveld trans Michele Hutchison
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9780571349371
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima trans. John Nathan
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781784875428
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo trans Leah Janeczko
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9780349017662
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann trans. Ross Benjamin
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781529403671
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías trans. Heather Cleary
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781914484308
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa trans. Daniel Hahn
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9780099593126
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781857028867
The Seas by Samantha Hunt
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781472154231
Mona by Pola Oloixarac trans. Adam Morris
uk.bookshop.org/a/6348/9781788169899