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theweirdladynextdoor · 2 years

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Not for Everyone: A grand list of 143 weird books

This is my meticulously curated list of 143 of the weirdest books I’ve ever read. Weird here can mean subject matter, the way it was written, or just that it’s off the beaten path. It certainly does not include every weird book out there. But it is a start if you are interested in reading weird lit yet have no idea where to begin. I encourage you to dig in... if you dare.

1. Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding by Jessie Sholl, (2010)

2. Ghost Story by Peter Straub, (1989)

3. My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers by Helen Morrison and Harold Goldberg, (2004)

4. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson, (1977)

5. Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist by Sophie Crumb, (2010)

6. The Farm: Life Inside a Women's Prison by Andi Rierden, (1997)

7. On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of Counterculture by Paul Perry, (1997)

8. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, (1959)

9. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club by Anne Allison, (1994)

10. The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter, (1996)

11. Not Without my Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, (1987)

12. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1915)

13. Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber, (1973)

14. Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman, (2002)

15. You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs, (2009)

16. Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk, (2008)

17. Pimp: The Story of my Life by Iceberg Slim, (1967)

18. Black Hole by Charles Burns, (2005)

19. My Lobotomy by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming, (2007)

20. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, (2006)

21. Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson, (1966)

22. The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, (1968)

23. Hardcore Mother by Maxon Crumb, (2001)

24. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, (2000)

25. House of Leaves and The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski, (2000)

26. Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff, (2008)

27. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson, (1971)

28. I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence by Amy Sedaris, (2006)

29. Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk, (2004)

30. SantaLand Diaries by David Sedaris, (1998)

31. Trout Fishing in America/ The Pill vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster/ In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan, (1989)

32. The Long, Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson, (1998)

33. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, (1959)

34. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, (1992)

35. Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris, (2010)

36. Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin by Norah Vincent, (2008)

37. The Cannibals of Candyland by Carlton Mellick III, (2009)

38. The Sallie House Haunting by Debra Lyn Pickman, (2010)

39. The Demonologist by Gerard Brittle, (1980)

40. Off Season (Dead River #1) by Jack Ketchum, (1980)

41. Room by Emma Donoghue, (2010)

42. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum, (1989)

43. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson, (1949)

44. When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase, (1987)

45. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, (1981)

46. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, (2009)

47. The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley, (1992)

48. Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer by Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth, (1989)

49. Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt, (2002)

50. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo, (2006)

51. The Complete Grimm’s Fairytales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, (1812)

52. Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson, (2012)

53. Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson, (2001)

54. The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson, (2011)

55. Life After Death by Damien Echols, (2012)

56. The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones by Anthony Bourdain, (2005)

57. Damned by Chuck Palahniuk, (2011)

58. Party Monster: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland by James St. James, (1999)

59. What Cops Know by Connie Fletcher, (1990)

60. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford, (1978)

61. I’m Down Mishna Wolf, (2009)

62. Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres, (2005)

63. Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library by Don Borchert, (2007)

64. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory, (2003)

65. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover, (1999)

66. Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis, (2001)

67. Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin, (2001)

68. Crimson Stain by Jim Fisher, (2000)

69. Are you my Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel, (2012)

70. The Complete Persepolis by Satrapi Marjane, (2003)

71. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, (1962)

72. Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein, (2015)

73. Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz, (2010)

74. Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges, (2013)

75. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef by Marco Pierre White, (2006)

76. Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan, (2014)

77. American Splendor Presents: Bob and Harv’s Comics by Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb, (1996)

78. My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf, (2012)

79. Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes go Hilariously Wrong

80. Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters, (2011)

81. Chicken: Self Portrait of a Young Man for Rent by David Henry Sterry, (2002)

82. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh, (2013)

83. You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from A Prison Fish by Jimmy A. Lerner, (2002)

84. Over Easy by Mimi Pond, (2014)

85. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney, (2012)

86. SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, (1967)

87. The Gallery of Regrettable Food: Highlights from Classic American Recipe Books by James Lileks, (2001)

88. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix, (2014)

89. My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, (2016)

90. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, (2015)

91. This House is Haunted by Guy Lyon Playfair, (1980)

92. The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan, (2015)

93. Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place by Scott McClanahan, (2013)

94. The Black Hope Horror: The True Story of a Haunting by Ben and Jean Williams, (1991)

95. $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, (2015)

96. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel, (2017)

97. True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray by James Renner, (2016)

98. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and People’s Temple by Jeff Guinn, (2017)

99. Conversations with Ed and Lorraine Warren by T. Sealyham, (2011)

100. Educated by Tara Westover, (2018)

101. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both by Cea Sunrise Person, (2014)

102. I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, (2018)

103. Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir By The Other Son by Kent Walker and Mark Schone, (2001)

104. Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood, (2016)

105. The Contortionist’s Handbook by Craig Clevenger, (2002)

106. Selp-Helf by Miranda Sings, (2015)

107. The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving by John Hoffman and Bruce Sterling, (1992)

108. Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America by Britt Collins, (2017)

109. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, (2018)

110. A Father’s Story by Lionel Dahmer, (1994)

111. The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis by Ian Brady, (2001)

112. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, (2015)

113. IT’S ME Edward Wayne Edwards: The Serial Killer You’ve Never Heard of by John A. Cameron, (2014)

114. We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix, (2018)

115. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein, (2017)

116. The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain by James Fallon, (2013)

117. Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow, (2018)

118. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. by Julie Holland, (2009)

119. The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy by Elizabeth Kendall, (1981)

120. High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips, (2009)

121. Hell’s Gate: Terror at Bobby Mackey’s Music World by Douglas Hensley, (1993)

122. From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning’s Nine Children by Joyce Egginton, (1989)

123. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, (2019)

124. Love as Always, Mum xxx by Mae West, (2018)

125. Solutions and other Problems by Allie Brosh, (2020)

126. The Serial Killer Cookbook: True Crime Trivia and Disturbingly Delicious Last Meals from Death Row's Most Infamous Killers and Murderers by Ashley Lecker, (2020)

127. Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel, Katya Zamolodchikova, (2020)

128. American Animals: A True Crime Memoir by Eric Borsuk, (2018)

129. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, (2020)

130. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman, (2021)

131. Broken (In the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson, (2021)

132. You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, (2021)

133. Yearbook by Seth Rogen, (2021)

134. Today a Woman went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer, (2021)

135. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder, (2021)

136. Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar, (2021)

137. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Burgess, (2021)

138. Tiger King: The Official Tell-all Memoir by Joe Exotic, (2021)

139. The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes, (1981)

140. Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Christine Montross, (2020)

141. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison, (2014)

142. Murder Book: A Graphic Novel of a True Crime Obsession by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, (2021)

143. Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffith, (2019)

#weird books

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p1325 · 1 year

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#fanvidfeed #2022 #happynewyear #happynewyear2023 #tvshows #viddingisart #multifandom -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the list of the shows I used: -Stranger Things, Wednesday Addams, Willow, The Devil's Hour, All Of Us Are Dead, The Summer I Turned Pretty, First Kill, Parallels, Young Royals, Archive 81 -The Essex Serpent, Heartstopper, Echoes, 1899, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, Bad Sister, Guillermo Del Toro's Cabin Of Curiosities, The Proud Family -Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Shantaram, High School Musical: The Series, Bridgerton, Moon Knight, Becoming Elizabeth, Uncoupled, Anatomy of a Scandal, The Girl In The Mirror, Heartbreak High, Archive 81 -The Woman in the House Across the Street from Girl in the Window, The Sandman, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Midnight Club, The Serpent Queen, Wolf Like Me, Servant, season 3 -We Crashed, Surface, Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Why Her, Boundless, Andor, Candy, Under the Banner of Heaven, Paper Girls, Rebelde, Elite, Girls5eva -From Scratch, High Water, The Marked Heart, Plus and Minus, KinnPorsche, Tales of the Jedi, Surviving Summer, This Is Going To Hurt, Rap Sh!t, Only Murders in the Building Season 2 -Made for Love, Abbott Elementary, Derry Girls Season 3, Atlanta Season 4, Better Things, Reservation Dogs, Severance, Better Call Saul Season 6, La Fortuna, 61st Street -Tierra Incognita, The Santa Clauses, Maggie, Blockbuster, Chloe, The Dropout, SAS Rogue Heroes, Superman and Lois, season 2, Blackish, Murderville, Emily in Paris -Barry, House of the Dragon, The Crown, Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3, The Witcher: Blood Origin, Billy the Kid 2022, Doomlands, Chucky Season 2, Somebody Somewhere -That Dirty Black Bag, Swimming with Sharks, The Boys Presents: Diabolical, Killing Eve, Minx, From, The Cuphead Show!, State of the Union season 2, Hacks Season 2 -Inventing Anna, Snowdrop, Reacher, Pam & Tommy, The End Game, How I Met Your Father, The Cleaning Day, Pivoting, The Gilded Age, Halo, Peacemaker, Tokyo Vice, Slow Horses - MacGruber, Station Eleven, Reacher, Grand Crew, American Auto, Bel-Air "My Kingdom, The Afterparty, Pistol, American Horror Story: NYC, Physical, season 2, In From the Cold, El Deafo (Jan. 7) -Power Book IV: Force, Promised Land, The Book of Boba Fett, Never Have I Ever, Monarch, Naomi, Just Beyond, Legend of Vox Machina, The Time Traveler's Wife (May 15) -Marvel's Hawkeye, Ghosts, Euphoria, Bridgergton, Zootopia+, Raised by Wolves, Queen Charlotte, Andor, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The White Lotus, The English -That 90s Show, Ozark season 4, The Afterparty, Summer Heat, Anxious People, Inside Job Part 2, Grownish, Gorditas, His Dark Materials Season 5, The Kids in the Hall -The Pentaverate, The Staircase, Gaslit, Russian Doll, season 2, Outer Range (April 15), Loot (June 24), Pachinko, Our Flag Means Death, This Fool -The Boys, season 3, Westworld Season 4, Black Bird (July 8), Life & Beth (March 18), The Walking Dead, season 11, part 2, Roar (2022 TV series), The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

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Song: 2022 RENAISSANCE

Artist: AdamMusic

#mashup #mash-up #end of the year #tv shows #tv show #happy new year #2022 #2023 #netflix

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beautifultransfag · 1 year

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Hi there! My name is Jax and I use he/they pronouns. I'm a non-binary adult who is making their way through the shitshow that is America.

My interests include:

World of Warcraft RP: I play on Moon Guard (NA) and Epsilon. I am one of the leaders of the guild <Blood Cult> which can be found on both platforms. I play Father Underlight, Demetri Eel, Rolance Essex, Archelaos Redright, and others.

Dragon Age: Mostly Dragon Age 2 NGL, but I've played all of the games and read a few of the books. My blorbos are Fenris, Anders, Sebastian Vael, Merrill, Isabela, Carver, Morrigan, Loghain, Sten, Zevran, Vivienne, Flemeth, and Solas. I mostly play Dalish elves. Mage rights or mage fights.

Furbies / vintage toys. I own 3 custom furbies and a bunch more that haven't been customized yet. I have a fascination with toys from the 80's-2010's.

Digital art: I mostly draw things related to roleplay. Lots of OCs!

Queer theory/queer history: but not discourse. I really love to read books written by historical queer people to learn more about queer culture in North America. If you ask me to participate in discourse I will bite your fingers off.

#About #New pinned post hi

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leatherjacketmixtapes · 1 year

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My 2022 in Books

This year I read 78 books which is a step down from the last few years (all 100+) but I'm trying to read in a more purposeful, slow way, trying to savor and absorb what I read, which is definitely a challenge since I've always been a very speedy reader.

There's a complete list below the cut of all the books, but here were my absolute favorites of this year:

Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Dracula - Bram Stoker (Dracula Daily was probably my favorite thing to ever happen on this beloved hellsite in the last 13 years)

The Storyteller - Dave Grohl (I'm not an audiobook person but it was such an experience listening to him read this)

Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Book of Night - Holly Black

The Key to Deceit - Ashley Weaver

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I loved so many of the others too, don't get me wrong, but those are the ones I know I'll be re-reading again before long (especially Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom, which I wanted to start reading again the very minute I finished them).

Off to start my 2023 reads now!

A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow

Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo

The Tea Dragon Society - Kay O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry - Kay O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival - Kay O’Neill

Flight, Vol. 7 - ed. Kazu Kibuishi

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures - N.D. Stevenson

Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World - Jack Kelly

Cemetery Boys - Aidan Thomas

The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Tim Mohr

The Puzzle Women - Anna Ellory

An Age Of License: A Travelogue - Lucy Knisley

True Love Bites - Joy Demorra

The Bear and The Nightingale - Katherine Arden

Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness

Under The Whispering Door - T.J. Klune

Rivers of London: Body Work - Ben Aaronovitch

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean

Home and Exile - Chinua Achebe

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other - Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish

Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab

The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead - Bert V. Royal

Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City - Kate Winkler Dawson

The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Key to Deceit - Ashley Weaver

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Book of Night - Holly Black

Cryptid Club - Sarah Andersen

Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci

Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas - Sara Lorimer

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

hir - Taylor Mac

All Boys Aren’t Blue - George M. Johnson

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis

Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Demon in the Wood - Leigh Bardugo

The 39 Steps - John Buchan

Wade in the Water: Poems - Tracy K. Smith

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Five Orange Pips - Arthur Conan Doyle

She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams

Cinnamon - Neil Gaiman

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

No Bones - Anna Burns

Mercury - Hope Larson

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (re-read)

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - August Wilson

Year of the Reaper - Makiia Lucier

The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow

Paper Girls, Volumes 1-6 - Brian K. Vaughan

#bookblr #currently reading #well not currently but I want to keep this in that tag for later #books #2022 reads

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