books that changed my brain chemistry

fantasy

The Abyss Surrounds Us

Emily Skrutskie · 2016

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

Maggie Tokuda-Hall · 2020

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang · 2018

Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 2015

Untethered Sky

Fonda Lee · 2023

Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo · 2016

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon · 2023

Babel

R. F. Kuang · 2022

dark academia

The Teras Tactics The Teras Threat Book #2

Lucien Burr · 2024

The Teras Trials

Lucien Burr · 2023

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 2004

mulheres loucas (autocrítica)

Lady Killers

Tori Telfer · 2017

The Push A Novel

Ashley Audrain · 2021

Bunny A Novel

Mona Awad · 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library