As the title says, suggest me a book you'd expect to find on a bookshelf of a 20 year old goth girl.
My bestie and I are 40-something goth girls (women?). We have our bookshelves, cultivated over a lifetime. But a recent discussion led us to the posted question and so Reddit, help us.
by firefoxjinxie
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The girl with a dragon tattoo
The Bell Jar
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice.
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard, Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre… at least those were some of my favourites when I was a 20 year old goth girl
Anything by Holly Black
Hmmm as a 25 year old with gothic tendencies. . .
Right now I think what’s popular are books about fucked up women, like *Bunny* and *Rouge* by Mona Awad and *Nightbitch* by Rachel Yoder, I think *Earthlings* by Sayaka Murata. [HERE’s](https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/d720445c-d4f6-41a3-a612-015f58e1242a) a storygraph reading challenge with a list of books about women off their shit. *Woman, Eating* by Claire Kohda has been on my TBR for a while and I just picked up a copy this weekend.
T. Kingfisher is also popular right now, check out *What Moves the Dead*, *Nettle and Bone*, and *A House with Good Bones*.
Seconding Nettle and Bone, really good book. Would add Scholomance.