Unhinged Women You Can’t Help But Root For

1. Bunny by Mona Awad — A scholarship student in an elite MFA program is lured into a creepy, pastel-clad girl group whose writing rituals grow increasingly unhinged. 

2. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh — A beautiful, miserable woman decides to drug herself into oblivion for a full year, convinced that sleep might cure her existential despair.

3. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh — Set in a grim New England town, this psychological thriller follows a deeply disturbed woman whose repressed rage causes her to snap.

4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang — When a failed white author steals the manuscript of her dead, more successful Asian friend, she rebrands it as her own and rises to fame while trying to outrun the truth in this darkly funny takedown of the publishing world, privilege, and identity.

5. A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers — A food critic with a taste for human flesh narrates her crimes with wit, elegance, and disturbingly relatable feminist fury.

6. Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan — An obsessive woman documents her toxic relationship with painful honesty, self-loathing, and flashes of brutal clarity.

7. Dead Girls Can’t Do Math by Katie Siegel — A ghost with anger issues haunts her high school best friend and helps her solve her own murder.

8. The Pisces by Melissa Broder — Heartbroken and spiraling, a woman house-sits in L.A. to escape her mess of a life—only to fall into a surreal, obsessive relationship with a seductive merman she meets on the beach.