My Fav 15 Dark & Weird Books of 2020 🖤 [CC]
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- let's get ~weird~
♡ Books (* = LGBT+ rep)
0:00 Intro
0:43 The Pisces - Melissa Broder (US)
1:54 Ring Shout* - P. Djeli Clark (US)
2:54 Lost Boy - Christina Henry (US)
3:52 Murders of Molly Southbourne - Tade Thompson (UK)
4:18 Hold Back the Tide - Melinda Salisbury (UK)
5:15 My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh (US)
6:27 Elizabeth - Ken Greenhall (US)
7:29 Earthlings* - Sayaka Murata (Japan)
8:29 The Electric State* - Simon Stalenhag (Sweden)
9:49 Follow Me to Ground - Sue Rainsford (Ireland)
11:11 The Machine - James Smythe (UK)
12:33 Future Home of the Living God - Louise Erdrich (US)
13:44 Mindf*ck series - S. T. Abby (US)
15:13 Troll: A Love Story* - Johanna Sinisalo (Finland)
17:22 Tender Is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica (Argentina)
19:11 Upcoming
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Tender is the Flesh was my favorite book I'd read in 2020, and you mentioned so many books that I hadn't heard of but sound absolutely up my alley. Totally subscribing!
Wow! This list is amazing! I am fascinated by so many of these and scared of reading them too! Earthlings has given me a pause and now I kinda want to read something more optimistic! Haha
20 mins went by so fast.
And even found a book or 2 i need to look for!
Clear yet soft spoken!
I just stumbled on this vid and these recs are legit everything I’m looking for!
The Pisces (Melissa Broder). Ring Shout (P. Djeli Clark). Lost Boy (Christina Henry). The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Tade Thompson). Hold Back The Tide (Melinda Salisbury). My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Otessa Moshfegh). Elizabeth ( Ken Greenhall). Earthlings (SayakaMurata). The Electric State (Simon Stallenberg). Follow Me To Ground (Author?). The Machine (James Smythe). Future Home of the Living God (Louise Erich). The Mindfuck Series (S.T. Abby). Troll: A Love Story (Author?). Tender Is The Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)
Thank you for this video!!! I got so many book suggestions from you! Much appreciated! ❤️
Great video Kat! I agree with you on Ring Shout, Murders of Molly Southbourne and especially Follow Me to Ground. Dark reads that have stayed with me include: The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter, Night Theatre by Vikram Paralkar, This Little Family by Ines Bayard and Betty by Tiffany McDaniel. Thanks and happy new year! 🥳
Thanks for the recs! I added them to my "Sub Recs" shelf on Goodreads so I can keep them in mind when shopping! They all sound great. Book of X and Night Theater sound especially weird and wonderful ✨✨✨
@@biblioobscura I’ve added Troll and The Machine from your list to my TBR. Don’t think I am brave enough for Elizabeth! Thanks!
Such an interesting list! I am currently reading "Troll", just finished and loved "The Electric State" and "The Murders of Molly Southourne" is one of my all time favorite books. "Tender is the Flesh" is high on my TBR, so now I am even more excited :-) If you want to check out an interesting dystopia by Johanna Sinisalo look for "The Core of the Sun", it was my introduction to her and it has been years since I read it but I thought it was really good at the time. Happy New year!
AMAZING!!!! Troll, Electric State, and Murders of MS were all great! Hope you like Tender is the Flesh! Lots to think about with that one. And I've already read Core of the Sun (liked it!) and want to read Blood of Angels (another of hers). Have you read it? Happy 2021!
Thanks for this!
I hope you could make more of videos about weird books in the future.
And ohhh I put everything on my TBR without reading the GR blurbs because your descriptions are interesting enough
I love to make videos about weird books!! But I also have to read a lot to find good ones. I reckon half of the weird books I try to read are not worth the trouble 😅
Also do you have any to recommend? I can add it to my TBR list 📚
Wonderful selections and discussion of these books. Superb stuff, so glad I stumbled on your channel. Brava.
Sooo interesting!!! I just found your channel and I’m glad :)
Love this video.
Tender is the Flesh was amazing, right up to and especially the ending. I have Earthling and My Year of Rest and Relaxation on my TBR already, but the other 12 sound so good too, so many books, I have to learn to prioritise, because I can't haul then all... Or can I?
I usually buy exclusively from op shops so it is always a bit of a surprise what I'm going to find. Maybe you'll just happen across some of these. Fingers crossed! If you're near Melbourne I can share my favorites :)
I love this list. I’ve been watching lots of booktube recently, and so many of the listens are either too pulpy or too academic. I feel like yours strikes a great balance. Excellent taste. I haven’t read a lot of these, but I definitely will now. I did read *Tender Is the Flesh*. And I thought it was a perfect novel until the ending, which was really disappointing to me. But I’m in the minority of readers there.
The rain really gave the appropriate atmosphere for this video haha
Oh I didn't know you'd already read tender is the flesh, I'm so happy people are reading it and loving it. Great list of dark books! I'm interested in Lost Boy 👀
Yes, I ate it right up. Sped through it in a day! I hope more people read it :)
I read it and thought it was boring! I guess I expected more? Idk, I didn’t like it at all
This is a fabulous list! Thank you so much 😊
Love this list! I've read a few and added some to my TBR! Happy Christmas! Xx
Thanks! Love books with a bit of weird :) Looking forward to trying more in 2021
And happy holidays!!! ✨✨
This is a great list. I am going to have to check out Ring Shout and Follow Me to Ground
Tender is the flesh through me for a loop at the ending. Such a good weird book
I absolutely love Tender is the Flesh, I will be re-reading it for analysis but definitely a favorite
I’m listening!!!! Just bought the first book of the mindf*ck series. Love all your recs. Subscribed.
♥ I want the Pieces and Follow Me to Ground now. ty!
the bunny ending was perfect and my year of rest and relaxation is ass bro what the hell
Your take on the books is wonderful. Probably better than the books. I'm sure you'd make a splendid Halloween dinner party guest. Something like an enthusiastic Morticia.
amazing list, so out of the (youtube) box. thank you for this. ill have the grab almost all of them. cheers from Rio
oh i loved Lost Boy, i read it a couple years ago and it's one i want to reread soonish :)
Agreed! Christina Henry has great retellings :)
I found you today! Thank you for the recommendations!
Also I just have to say. To me, you look a little like a young Jamie Lee Curtis it's something on the smile or eyes idk idk but aaa!! 🥰
Jagannath is by Karen Tidbeck, not Johanna Sinisalo, but Tidbeck is worth a look! Her novel Amatka is really good. Strange with a scifi feel. Dark and weird. Interested in a bunch of these titles you posted. Glad i got a recommend of you by the algorithm.
I have that last one, I’ll read it. Made notes to get most of your other suggestions, thanks.
You asked if KKK members were reading Ring Shout. That would presume that KKK members COULD read at all. Which, I doubt.
No I bet that they believe reading is witch craft 😂 but actually wouldn’t be surprised if they thought that 🤦♀️
I found the 1977 first paperback edition of Elizabeth at a library sale a few years back, thanks for renewing my interest in it. Seems delightfully unnerving!
Omg I absolutely adored Electric State! An artistic masterpiece. I’m obsessed with those kind of Matrix/AI musings in sci fi though it’s not my fav genre. The ending made me tear up a little. He just published a new post-apocalyptic one this month called The Labyrinth. I need to get my grubby little mitts on it!
I’ll give S.T. Abby’s Minf*ck series a try; I think I can trust your opinion 😁
First edition of Elizabeth!!! Lucky find! Definitely a book with multiple valid interpretations! And a new Stalenhag!! Thanks for letting me know. Did you watch Tales from the Loop which is based off of Stalenhag's books? It was weirddd. And PLEASE READ IT SO WE CAN CHAT. 😂😂😂
thanks so much!!!!
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0:22 -> immediately subscribed 🎉🥳
Thanks so much for this list. Watch out for spoilers, though: too many.
If you love dark and weird, I recommend: Places Where The Moon Never Shines. Quite abnormal.
Love the list if you like weird im sure you read john dies at the end or any book in the series by david wong
Troll sounds interesting!
Good recommends. Thank you
10:44 this is giving me mushishi vibes
Dark + weird is the best combination
I agree!
S. T. Abby has passed away, unfortunately. The series was so well done.
Added a lot of these to my TBR for next year! I loved Tender is the Flesh! Such an eye opener!
Agreed! And I haven't read anything like it! Have you?
@@biblioobscura no unfortunately I haven't read anything else like it either
I recommend The Blue Fox by Sjón
Clicked because I thought you were Maggie May Fish. Stuck around for the great content!
Hi😊 Do you have more weird books that are not popular?
I'm not filming rn, but I do have an Instagram where I log my books biblio.obscura.reads :)
I would add Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp to this list. Very cool novella. Disorienting and weird.
Thanks for the rec!
The Takers and the Keepers by Ivan Pope is deeply dark, about an aspect of human trafficking that is maddeningly awful. / Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots focuses on an out-of-work temp who takes a job as a hench for a super villain, only to learn that it's the superheroes doing most of the damage to the world, people, and society. Dark, violent, and often also funny, this book explores toxic machismo, heroism as a myth, and the power of simple humanity.
You are of my ilk. 👍🏽❤️👍🏽
Below the groin is the inner thigh. People think the word 'groin' means something else.
At first I was like ooo mermaids but now I’m like eww mermaids 😂
you are kinda cute
...not "dark", rather "dank", dunk! Dank!...