- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones ★★★★
- Transformations by Anne Sexton ★★★★
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow ★★
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman ★★★★★
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders ★★★★½
- No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai ★★★★★
- Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth ★★★½
- Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva ★★★½
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole ★★★
- Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ★★★★★
- On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer ★★★★
- A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw ★★½
- Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada ★★★★★
- Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa ★★★½
- Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield ★★★★
- Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well by Maya Angelou ★★★★★
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ★★★★
- The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson ★★★★½
- Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera ★★★★
- The Country Life by Rachel Cusk ★★★
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu ★★★
- Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 3 by Inio Asano ★★★★
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka ★★★★½
- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi ★★★★
- We Do Not Part by Han Kang ★★★★★
- The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince, and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde ★★★★
