okay okay...i've seen you all asking 😭

i'm open to starting a book club, but i want to do it in a way that people will actually stick with.

so let's feel it out a bit. please answer these questions and any additional feedback in the comments:

• would you actually participate?
• how often would want it? (monthly? more casual?)
• what books would you want to start with? (we'll run a poll on this soon)

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And our theme for the month is… CLASSIC weird girl literature🔥. Please post suggestions below. We will then vote on our pick.

Let them come!

And our genre is CULT ENERGY! Please lists your picks for next months book.

Please keep in mind, older books are cheaper and more accessible via library. It may be good to keep this in mind when choosing a pick so you don’t need to purchase a brand new book.

Also, come join us for book club discussion! https://discord.com/invite/FyQYgbFHZe

i never imagined this sub would grow the way it did. i love scrolling through and reading all of the interesting discussions you all are having. i’m glad so many of you are enjoying this space 🖤

that is all 🖤

HORROR! The 🩸. Please nominate your books and authors below.

Please check out our Discord chat as well: https://discord.gg/FyQYgbFHZe

feel free to post any other comments/suggestions/arguments below

Hey! We are starting to think about book club for next month. If you’d like to do an hour meetup on Google Meet, please put in the comments. This would be at night in EST for one hour. This is something we can do once a month.

Please vote for September’s theme.

Edit to add: still planning but in need of some additional help and new mods so please send us a mod mail if you're active and interested!

Hi all, I'm your new mod and I'm gonna attempt to get a book club going. I read through all the responses in the previous pinned post and the overwhelming majority are in favour of monthly, so we'll go with that. Our founder would prefer we stay on reddit vs having a discord or some other off-site group for discussion, so our likely format is going to be a monthly run of pinned threads for nominations, voting, and then discussion.

A number of people suggested themed months, and I think that's a really good idea. I think the best way to go about that is probably to nominate/vote on 12 themes for the coming year and rotate through them, since then we don't need to go through the process of nominations/voting for both a theme and a book every single month. I'm aware a lot of people are mood readers and may prefer to do it as we go, so let me know if you'd prefer that and if there's a sizeable preference for that we can reconsider.

I have some ideas for themes, which come under two broad categories as follows...

General bookish themes and we pick weird girl books from within each, some examples:
- BIPoC rep
- LGBTQIA+ rep
- neurodivergence and/or mental health rep
- translated
- horror
- non fiction & memoirs

Weird girl lit genre tropes, some examples:
- unreliable narrator
- obsession
- female rage
- morally grey
- mental/emotional spiral
- isolation/alienation

We could stick to one type or have a mix of the two theme types, I'm sure there's plenty of other ideas for themes I haven't included here so do feel free to suggest any you'd like to see.

TLDR: Please let me know:
- do you support monthly themes, or prefer free for all monthly nominations?
- if we go with themes, would you prefer nominations/voting monthly or 12 months at a time for theme choice? Or somewhere inbetween like quarterly?
- any actual theme suggestions I haven't mentioned that you'd like to see?

My general aim is going to be to hash out the planning and pick themes over the next couple weeks so we can get voting on a book for June and start the monthly reading then! Since we're keeping it on reddit it will be fairly casual - we can have a pinned post for the book of the month and people can contribute as and when they read the book. We can keep a running list as we go with links to past books/discussions so anyone joining in the future can find and comment on old book club threads if they'd like. Open to suggestions if anyone has any other ideas.

I'll leave this up for a while so y'all have plenty of time to input/respond and then the next post will probably be theme voting (unless there's a huge amount of disagreement with that idea)

Please select our next genre so we can nominate books. Please also list suggested genres for future months.

Please check out our Discord chat as well: https://discord.gg/FyQYgbFHZe

Please vote for the book you’d like to read.

hi all, just a quick request here - people have been fantastic about using spoilers for their posts and it's much appreciated. just wanted to ask that y'all also be mindful of the titles you choose when posting, as you may also be unintentionally spoiling content for people. for example, if you title your post "thoughts on x book as a csa survivor" people are going to infer that there's csa content in the book, which they may not want to know before starting it. many people check trigger warnings, but there are still people who prefer to go in knowing nothing.

much appreciated x

(edit) to reiterate/clarify: this post is just asking you to be mindful of spoilers in post TITLES because spoiler tags cannot be applied to them. you're free to post spoilers in post body or comments, just use spoiler tags when appropriate.

We've decided to host the book club discussion on discord moving forward. We'll still poll here and probably post a thread so people are welcome to engage only here if they'd like to. You can join the discord here.

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We'll be having ongoing posts from u/noididntsayit22 month to month regarding voting, nominating, etc, but I thought it might be helpful to have all the info and past links in one place that's permanently pinned. I'll add the threads here as they're posted so it's easy to find all past posts.

At present the plan is to have a monthly vote on themes, nominate books, and then vote on which of the top nominations we want to read. We'll have a discussion thread on the subreddit and a monthly meeting (platform tbc.) I'll add those details when we have them. If you have any suggestions or things you'd prefer we do differently, feel free to add them here and we can discuss.

Initial book club thread
Planning thread

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November 2026

Theme poll
Book nominations!
Book vote!

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October 2026

Theme poll
Book nominations!
Book vote!
Discussion thread

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September 2026: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson!

Theme poll
Book nominations!
Book vote!
Discussion thread and meeting info!
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Non-subreddit regional WGL (not run by us):

Chicago
Portland
Triangle, NC

Please select an option for below. Please join our Discord forum here https://discord.gg/FyQYgbFHZe

Hey y’all. I’m just trying to get a numbers count for Tuesday, 9/22. Please respond how you will participate in book club!

the last poll was too close for me to feel comfortable imposing a decision on half the sub, so let's try this again.

i have slight concerns that requiring them to fit the subreddit is a bit subjective and difficult to police, so i'd personally lean away from that one, but it was wanted as an option. please vote! if it's close again i'm going to err on the side of less moderation.

previous vote here

hi all, we're really wanting to get the book club started, if anyone has any experience or interest in running a book club on reddit and would like to help please shoot us a mod mail!

hey, everyone. just wanted to pop in with a few small updates as the sub continues to grow.

• we have a new 🌙monthly wrap-up flair for monthly reading wrap-ups/graphics/recaps since people have been making really fun ones lately
• i also brought on a mod to help out a bit with growing community + future book club organization

and yes...i still see the book club comments 👁️ we're keeping it pretty low-pressure and figuring out the best way to do it without making it feel like homework.

thanks for continuing to make this such a fun, thoughtful corner of the internet 🖤

it's come up a few times that people are interested in sharing their own writing in this genre, so i made a sister sub:

r/weirdgirlwrites

this one is specifically for:

• sharing your writing
• finding beta readers
• talking about your process

r/weirdgirlliterature will stay focused on reading, discussion, and recommendations.

if you've been wanting to share your own weird girl writing, that's the place for it 🖤

helloo, i'm gonna pop up a vote in a couple days for which themes we wanna start with for book club so please let me know any themes you'd like included in the vote. feel free to post here or on the pinned post, i'll check both before i make a poll. thanks all x