CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN
Sayaka Murata
“In Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, a small, elegant and deadpan novel, a woman senses that society finds her strange, so she culls herself from the herd before anyone else can do it . . . Casts a fluorescent spell . . . A thrifty and offbeat exploration of what we must each leave behind to participate in the world.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times
Convenience store was a crazy, wild ride from start to finish. I bought it at work and completed it in one sitting. It was GRIPPING.
Would %100 reccommend it to anyone, but especially woman and especially neurodivergent women. There's a lot to empathize within this novel. Or at least there was in my case.
Sayaka Murata seems to be an expert in weird woman fiction, which is extremely welcome on this page.
STRANGE HOUSES
UKETSU
“I loved it! It has the twists and fair-play style of a Golden Age whodunit, mixed with a wonderfully innovative use of illustrations. Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels.” - G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller Murdle
If you're looking for an interesting, thrilling, and kind of campy crazy mystery novel, READ THESE BOOKS.
There's something about these
novels that I couldn't get enough of. The twists, the illustrations, the floorplans.... It was more involved than your average mystery novel. My bookstore classified it as a horror novel, but I personally think it's more of a thriller than anything. It reminds me a bit of Parasite by Bong Joon-Ho.
READ IT!!!
STRANGE BUILDINGS
UKETSU
From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a new unsettling mystery—eleven strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all.
UKETSU's Strange Buildings is the third in the Strange Books series, which i read after Strange Houses.
Technically, you can read them in whichever order you'd like. But there are reoccuring characters, which are kind of first introduced in Strange Houses?? But again, you can read whichever gets your attention first.
Strange Buildings is about two times longer than the other two Strnage Books, but just as good. It's more of a collection of short stories that all connect with eachother than a single, linear story. Which is cool!! But it IS a little longer than the rest.
Definitely worth a read if you want something longer than 200~ pages that's a good mystery in the same vein of the Strange Books series.
STRANGE PICTURES
UKETSU
The spine-tingling "triumphant international debut" (Publishers Weekly starred review) that has taken Japan by storm—an eerie and fiendishly clever Japanese puzzle mystery in which a series of seemingly innocent pictures draws you into a disturbing web of unsolved mysteries and shattered psyches.
This is probably my favorite of the three books in UKETSU's strange book series. Strange Houses is a close second, but it's more violent and bloody compared to the rest. It also has a lot of family drama, which heavily involves motherly trauma and issues of that sort, which I thought made for a really great read.
Definitely worth a read!! The illustrations are also a huge plus. I really enjoyed them.
