#darcey steinke

[pink-evilette]

Jesus Saves ~ Darcey Steinke

[diana-selene-hecate]

kathy acker

[starfxkrinc]

weee talked abt sharp objects & house of hollow last night do u have any other book recs!!!😁 i think im gonna read bones & all but i need more recs. also have u read Wilder Girls?

if u like those i think youd realy like sula by toni morrison and jesus saves by darcey steinke.

the former is trulyyy a classic great if you like odd female relationships.

jesus saves is a very bleak book but also really good. touches on young adult depravity and the decay of middle america

also bones and all book sucked i wouldnt read it

[marciamodenese]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Suicide blonde book.

[halloweenvalentine1997]

A recommended reading list of books I own and have read

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Carrie by Stephen King

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Menfreya in the Morning by Victoria Holt

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shining by Stephen King

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

The Stand by Stephen King

The Strange Beautiful by Carla Crujido

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

[heavenlylibrary]

“The biological clock was a feeling that it was time to move from one phase to the next, more advanced one. It was a positive and mature thing really, though men made it sound like a nervous disease.”

-From Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

[ginagailn]

Let Us Now Praise Teenage Hobo Vampires; or, The Orange Eats Creeps

The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich

I've been curious about this one since I first heard the phrase "slutty teenage hobo vampire junkies" used to describe its about-ness. (In my mind, I've long thought of this as Lost Boys but in the Pacific Northwest, about a teenage girl instead of teen boys.) This book lit up my "you can do that in a novel?!" synapses in all the best ways. The story--a teenager wanders a highway in search of her runaway foster sister--is a shape-shifter. Crusty vampires. Drugs. Pukey punk shows. The present and the past swirling into a fever dream. Waywardness and feeling lost and seeking belonging, home, and independence. The immersive, poetic prose called to mind Darcey Steinke's 1997 novel Jesus Saves. No vampires there, but similarities in atmosphere. Bizarre, brutal, gorgeous. The kind of book you want to swallow you whole.

[xavierdesousaofficial]

AMNION | LYNN LU

Performance to Camera, 2021

Commissioned by Xavier de Sousa, Anahí Saravia & Alessandra Cianetti for performingborders.

Watch full Performance to Camera here: https://performingborders.live/commissions/amnion-lynn-lu/

This work thinks through water as a medium that literally connects all watery bodies – all living creatures to each other, as well as to hydrogeological and meteorological bodies, the significant water loss in menopausal bodies, our human affinity to whales – the only other species that undergoes the climacteric and lives a long post-reproductive life, and the enduring biological enigma that is the menopause. 

Layered voices narrate text excerpts from philosopher Astrida Neimanis’ and writer Darcey Steinke’s ideas exploring the leakiness of borders between our bodies and our environment, and between human and cetacean, as well as the fallacies and fears that continue to surround bodies transitioning from a state of fertility to one of barrenness that affects more than half the world’s population.

Conceived, written, narrated & performed by: Lynn Lu Directed, filmed, edited by: Ana de Matos  Second performer: Satsuki Lu-Sharpe

[manogirl]

So many more!

Down Girl, Entitled and the upcoming Unshrinking by Kate Manne

The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

White Feminism by Koa Beck

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange

F*ck Happiness: How the Science of Psychology Ignores Women by Ariel Gore

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back by Jessica Luther

Lifting As We Climb by Evette Dionne

All the Rage by Darcy Lockman

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life by Darcey Steinke (you will cry)

Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen

No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes

Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemely

Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister

Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper

Women & Power by Mary Beard

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson

Shrill by Lindy West

Asking for It by Kate Harding

Headscarves and Hymens by Mona Eltahawy

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

Homeward Bound by Emily Matchar

I've read all of the books on my list (except for Kate Manne's upcoming book, which is pre-ordered), and 9 of the OP's list. With respect to them, that list is sadly lacking anything about fat women, and it's a little short of authors who aren't white American women.

I'd like my list to be more diverse, but I went back through 10 years of reading history and decided that was probably enough.

(Oh god, I miss doing RA. I'm a former public librarian and talking about books is still one of the best things ever. I didn't leave librarianship for the lack of loving books!)

Essential Feminist Texts Booklist

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by  Shulamith Firestone 

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner 

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Is This Normal?: Judgment-Free Straight Talk about Your Body by  Dr. Jolene Brighten

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jennifer Gunter

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain 

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn 

The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath

[pink-evilette]

Jesus Saves ~ Darcey Steinke

[wankybookquotes]

SUICIDE BLONDE - Darcey Steinke

 "You can't tell where you stop and other people start," he said. "That's a dangerous quality to have." 

[starfxkrinc]

otessa moshfegh....do better...ready darcey steinke and sayaka murata instead

ive been meaning to ask this but for all my fellow #writers who are your favorite authors im curious bc my holy trifecta is toni morrison, vladimir nabokov and anais nin and i think thats why you all need to relax abt me and the rafesarah things i picked up

[marciamodenese]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Suicide blonde book.

[thefeministpress]

Patriarchy as a concept was long out of fashion. As Katherine Angel explains in Daddy Issues, her smart, thoughtful essay about the cultural place of fathers in the #MeToo age, it was sunk alongside the corpse of second-wave feminism. “The nineties – decade of girl power, and of an insistence on women’s economic and social freedom, on the condition that women themselves abandon a critique of gender relations – gave invocations of patriarchy, as it gave feminism, a fusty feel, an old-fashioned whiff, conjuring all the age-old stereotypes of feminism: joylessness, sexlessness, uptightness."

“Writing to Resist the Patriarchy”

[heavenlylibrary]

“I got another beer and thought of Bell and me in a big apartment on Nob Hill, how we would have dark paintings and beautiful wooden bowls. Bell would have a job producing movies and I'd be a photographer and we'd eat tabouli and make our own Christmas cards and name our baby India. Our bed would be thick with patterned blankets, quilts and cranberry satin pillows. But the dream place bled into a starker room, Bell asleep on the futon, me awake at the window—our life as raw and painful as a bloody bone.”

- From Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

[inwhichiread]

Wales are just like God [...] Not seeing them is just as important as seeing them.

Darcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary