all the books I recommended to author Brittany Newell! She asked me for recs during our interview. If you read her novel, Soft Core, you’ll know Newell is more into “vibes” than plot. After getting to know her more in our chat I pulled these books from my shelf to show her. If you like books exploring desire, womanhood, queerness, grief, and surrealism, these books are for you too!

• Bonding by Mariel Franklin

• All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami

• Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Y/N by Esther Yi

• The Guest by Emma Cline

• Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

• Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu

• The Song Cave, poetry by John Keene

• They by Kay Dick

• Bunny by Mona Awad

• Mona by Pola Oloixarac

• Assembly by Natasha Brown

• Francisco by Alison Mills Newman

Any titles you want to know more about? Lmk and I’ll give you the gist.