strange books for strange people pt. 2

[@quinni241]

Books Mentioned Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson (2:30) The Collector by John Fowles (5:12) Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (7:11) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (9:15) Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica Translated by Sarah Moses (11:03) The Sleep Watcher by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (13:15) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (15:09) Betty Blue by Philippe Dijan Translated by H. Buten (15:57) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (17:58) Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge (19:29)

[@cuteprograstinator9970]

Thank you Quinn!

[@bethysbarn]

Thank you sweetie! 🥰❤️❤️ always appreciate that you do this for us ❤❤❤

[@elluuas]

tyyy

[@beckitbeckit]

everybody say THANK YOU DAKOTA

[@billyalarie929]

THANK YOU DAKOTA

[@millie6315]

THANK YOU DAKOTA

[@davidbrockmeier9538]

THANK YOU DAKOTA

[@minjabear7524]

no

[@Asuki3905]

THANK YOU DAKOTA

[@anchxrheart]

i was literally just thinking how i need to read more books that give me this kind of vibe. how ... strange. 👀

[@krystianpiotrowski3676]

Anything by Clarice Lispector (The Passion According to G. H. and her wonderful short stories!) or Hélène Cixous - the way they play with words and ideas is pure mental equilibristics. Highly recommended.

[@2wicebittten]

yes i've always ben surprised to see that dakota has never read or talked about lispector!

[@drbenway612]

Lispector sucks.

[@melyibarra809]

Another strange book is Chlorine by Jade Song and also any book by Mariana Enríquez

[@fnrlrlcs]

One of my favorite books is the "Novel with Cocaine" by M. Ageyev (I read it in the original language, because I am, unfortunately, from Russia, but I hope there is some good translation). It's like the "Catcher in the rye", but the main character is actually disgusting (unlike Holden, he's just a sad kid), but you love him so much. Another book that I think about a lot is "Voyeur" by Francesca Reece. A wonderful strange unpleasant book, it's so dear to my heart.

[@HerbBrid3]

You influenced me, I’m adding these to my list

[@Ink_Spills]

The Bloody Chamber is my new favorite book. It's so good!

[@yasminmaley2237]

❤

[@whoroborous]

I'm almost finished with her book, 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' aaaand - it is WILD.. Angela Carter is the best. Whenever I'm in between books and I just need a rest, I read a story or two of hers and get reinvigorated 🙃 so many books on this list are bangers

[@scottwareham6987]

Great list! Some more strange books: The Killjoy - Anne Fine The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles High Rise - JG Ballard Ice - Anna Kavan The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Piercing - Ryū Murakami Any short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, but in particular, Spinning Gears. Wow... Enjoy, and all the best :)

[@whoroborous]

Anna kavan ❤❤❤ I've read almost all of these -- great taste bub ! I'm going to have to grab the ones I haven't, ty for the list

[@scottwareham6987]

You're most welcome :)

[@wakjagner]

I'm always surprised that Murakami isn't on these weird book lists more, particularly things like Kafka on the Shore or Wild Sheep Chase or Hard-boiled Wonderland.

[@nel5559]

This needs to be a recurring series of videos. I'm begging you!!! These strange books and those to do with feminine rage are my favourite genres!!!

[@garysczerbaniewicz5951]

John Fowles.....Yes!!! The Magus is my favorite!!!

[@dennishickey7194]

If I remember he rewrote it so ...

[@tasha-paigeebony-heart646]

The Magus is one of my favourites too.

[@garysczerbaniewicz5951]

@@tasha-paigeebony-heart646 such an immersive and haunting read - truly resonates!!!

[@dinoxels]

the collector sounds batshit insane I wanna read that

[@sezonaupaklu]

i read it last year and i can confirm its batshit insane and its my favourite book ever

[@solitarianihilista1454]

I also read it last year and can recommend it though I found it more disturbing than outright batshit (but if I'm in the mood for batshit I usually pick up an early Iain Banks). Suffice to say I don't think a single publisher would touch The Collector today.

[@a-yam943]

It’s really not, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s just two people recounting the same crime but from their perspectives

[@MB-hc9tk]

❤ love these recommendations thank you Dakota weird books I enjoyed : like water for chocolate -Laura esquivel Lonely castle in the mirror - mizuki tsujimura The glutton - a.k blakemore North woods - Daniel mason

[@lenaheitmann4500]

I would definitely recommend more Angela Carter especially the Magic Toyshop also Bear by Marion Engel is a very weird book

[@laindarko3591]

If you haven't already seen it, you'll probably really enjoy The Company of Wolves (the film adaptation of Angela Carter's short story of the same name). Carter was actually heavily involved in the movie's creation so it captures the spirit of her work so well

[@ashthepsychic]

I love this list! I'm definitely adding all these books to my tbr because your taste is just immaculate.

[@fairy4734]

I highly recommend “Master and Margarita”. It’s an absolutely stunning ( and undoubtedly peculiar) Russian novel.

[@ninja_boy]

I've watched so many book tube videos over the years, and I think this is the first time I've ever heard John Fowles mentioned. Love The Collector, and The Magus is one of my all-time favorites. I recommend The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Ebony Tower as well!

[@vieb9742]

Love the recommendations, thank you! I'm a V. C. Andrews fan and have reread Flowers in the Attic several times over the years. The whole series is dark gothic strange family dynamics. Heaven by the same author is also a must if you do enjoy this author. The strangest book you could ever read by Andrews is My Sweet Audrina.

[@Angels-3xist]

Normally I feel a certain amount of reticence about being openly weird or being drawn to it, but this honestly filled me with a redundantly and oddly strange pride for both. Alot of people live for that weird feeling and these seem like excellent examples. I also feel a similar way about campy movies, which also deserve much more attention. I would very much like to know what your true feelings are on Catcher in the Rye. If nothing else just to work the feelings out. Glad to find your channel. Love the energy.

[@jimbabwe6561]

Just found your channel yesterday and have been catching up on your recommendation videos. Nice! I recently got hooked on strange and disturbing literature too and have always felt drawn to art that explores the darker side of identity. Perfume is one of my favourite books. Have you read Lolita by Nabokov? I would also recommend Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahnuik, and Poppy Z. Brite’s short stories, or Exquisite Corpse (goriest thing I’ve ever read). I’m currently reading American Psycho which also fits this strange dark literature genre!

[@NovelFindsByKassi]

Absolutely love John Fowles. The Collector was the first one by him I've read. Weird and haunting and strange.

[@arekkrolak6320]

I know Catcher in the Rye is such an important book for US readers but I don't know personally even one person who would say he really enjoyed it or connected with it personally

[@scottboyd3838]

Tell that to Mark David Chapman

[@kaamkic]

It was me. I connected with it on such a deep level. I was an angsty teen when I read it though. I should read it again.

[@NZAnimeManga]

Ohh nice, thanks for the strange recs! Added lots of 'em to my TBR

[@Masestro682]

Thank you, Dakota 🧸! I’m going to watch part 1 as well. I reckon I might resonate with The Catcher in the Rye and love bug. Excellent recommendations!

[@HappyG1lm0re]

Haven't read a bad book from your lists yet. I would give anything to read The Collector or Frankenstein again for the first time.

[@mikaela__]

i dont know if you have read it, but i think our share of night by mariana enriquez should qualify to strange books pt. 3 if you ever make that!

[@mikaela__]

okay i just looked at the comments and i'm the third person recommending her 💀sorry i have no original thoughts

[@JamesHopkins-on3mv]

Stones Of Summer by Dow Mossman,written in early seventies. Sweeping,poetic epic of postwar America from late forties to late sixties.

[@hy.a.cinthh]

thank you lady dakota 🙏 been in a bit of a reading slump lately, but watching your videos help exponentially.

[@Erica-jn1pq]

This channel is such a gem! So many new books now on my tbr list. Thank you!

[@andreasj647]

My bank account despises this video. But I love it, so who cares? ❤

[@lenaboerboom8256]

If you like insane novels I’d also recommend Dutch literature. All the books we have to read for school are so depraved and shocking that I never quite liked them, but if you’re into that it’s definitely worth a shot.

[@Indie_witch10]

I found a signed copy of Art and Lies at the Goodwill in perfect condition for like..3 bucks and now I’m so happy I bought it:) thank you!

[@gabona0]

girl, if you liked the collector you will LOVE the magus by the same author!! this is one of the strangest book i’ve ever read and also one of the most captivating and beautiful book, i would recommend it so very much!!

[@melyibarra809]

I needed this

[@chibha96]

I like the names of these books as I have never heard/read them. Here's my views on the John Fowles book story, a man kidnaps a girl and there is confusion and disturbing. I'm just thinking in alternate setting - how would it be if a woman kidnaps a boy. I think it will be funny and chaotic. Tender is the flesh is a weird title for a book and I think those who understand animals/meat eating/violence/human nature can relate with book. I think these books will be good inspiration for movies and video games.

[@chrystianaw8256]

How would a woman kidnapping a boy be funny?

[@daphne4983]

I have The Coloured Land by Chesterton. I tjonk first edition but anyways from the 30s. It has all these interesting pictures. Still need to read it.

[@arantxaarbulu8322]

I read the collector because you recommended it and it is one of my favorites now ! ❤

[@Defied_-vw2jz]

5:40, 🎶 Tiger Army - I Am The Moth 🎶

[@SteamyPMcGee]

I enjoy your strange books series. I've read and liked several from both and it is lovely to be reassured that I am strange and likely to have a good time with the rest of the list!

[@Asuki3905]

I am loving your strange books series and I hope you'll be continuing the series! Subbed! Also, for a strange read, I highly recommend Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung. A collection of short stories with magical realism, horror, and science fiction. I read it at the beginning of the year, and it is still living rent-free in my head!

[@elisabethn3913]

I was just thinking how much I love your shirt, and then you said you were annoyed by it😂 You look great! And thank you for the list🫶🏻

[@thundercheeks1989]

The push I needed to take The Collector off the shelf. Thanks!

[@bananasplit3805]

I love that both strange books recommendation videos start with a book that features a pomegranate in its cover.

[@melissaaugust7016]

Thank you! You are the first person I have heard anyone mention THE COLLECTOR, I love this book

[@InNegative1]

Anything by Charlee Jacob. Very much enjoying Season of the Witch right now.

[@baharalgun6891]

I am in love with catcher in the rye ❤❤❤

[@joejs7659]

I read Mysteries by Hamsun recently and it quite resonated with me, would say it fits the ‘for strange people’ category. A damn fine book it is tough, especially if one can read it in the native.

[@jacquelinestauffer5796]

I agree with you about Betty Blue. Excellent. Beautiful and heart breaking movie (and book).

[@scottboyd3838]

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry was an odd one for me, the language used is perplexing but riveting

[@raymondfitzgerald-kuhl5976]

Thank you Dakota

[@multiverser9585]

I recommend The Bomb by Frank Harris. A German immigrant arrives in America in the late 1880s to seek adventure, gets taken advantage of in harsh New York conditions such as almost dying from the bends while helping to dig bedrock for the Brooklyn Bridge, goes to Chicago, falls in love with an intriguing woman, becomes a radical activist, handcrafts a bomb, tests the prototype from a boat on the lake with his girlfriend then uses the next one as a terrorist in a riot called The Haymarket Affair. Hitchcock could have made a masterpiece out of this twisted tale.

[@letsichigo]

i've had a copy of the collector on my shelf that i 'borrowed' from my mom, it's her copy from the 60s, on my bookshelf for years! it feels weird to hear someone mention it because i always assumed it was some out of print obscure book LOL

[@14suryashi]

You are one of my favs on this app, I am so so glad I discovered you ❤

[@veek4788]

If you liked Betty Blue you should try Elle by Djian as well! Really fantastic (but I lowkey think the movie is better).

[@mothvenom]

i just read the bloody chamber by angela carter... highly recommend!!!

[@natashakoli9341]

Omg i remember you recommending The collector about a year or two ago which is when I started following your journey. Thats a sign i need to pick it up!! ❤

[@Snailslow69]

Read piers Anthony's short story In The Barn and see if its tone is the same as Tender is the Flesh, cause your description reminds me of it.

[@Stephanie-hl7lo]

I had to order Lovebug was[ just delievered the other day, I can't wait to read it!

[@heyehyemoboy]

TENDER IS THE FLESH!!!!! i actually have not shut up about that book since i read it, agustina bazterrica is a phenomenal writer

[@everettroberts6860]

The Collector is so good. I also thought the movie was a good adaptation.

[@davidhatred7275]

read the bloody chamber and the collector this year, the collector made me so sad at the end! ever read the manuscript found in saragossa by jan potocki?

[@paisley9782]

Betty Blue is one of my all time favourite movies. Beautifully sad.

[@MegDion]

THANK YOU!!! Love all your videos

[@wmegfsiry]

If anyone knows a strange books for strange girls (poetry edition) pls tell me, you'll help me greatly 😗

[@nanam6403]

Averno, Louise Glück (if you like Greek mythology)

[@chrystianaw8256]

Ooh that's a great idea! I would start with Anaïs Nin

[@vnthe4177]

insert "I'm insane. I'm crazy. asylum" tiktok here

[@gabrielmiller4176]

“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.”

[@andrewhawes5541]

Have you read "marabou stork nightmares" by Irvine Welsh? It's a bit violent and strange.

[@robhead22]

Thank you!

[@DelishDiarrhoeaX]

Subscribed this channel.. literally such a vive .. tysm for the recommendation

[@anamariamolnar11]

Can I just add one more Angela Carter recommendation? I read The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman last year and it was so absolutely bizarre and funky and dark yet funny, it would fit so well in this list!

[@laurenschenck5355]

Tender is the flesh definitely adding it to my TBR ❤😊❤

[@jimmycryz]

If you want to read a book that feels like a fever dream but in good way, read Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah. The feeling of Deja Vu that this book gives is amazing.

[@AdamFishkin]

One of my favorite directors, William Wyler, filmed an adaptation of The Collector in 1965. It was already intriguing, but your description of the plot and mood has convinced me to bump it closer to the top of my shoplist. As far as I know, the only earlier major work to study a psychopath's POV is The Stranger by Albert Camus. (Though the distinctions between psychopath and sociopath need to be sorted out before I say for sure.) The Catcher in the Rye is a well-crafted book, but the usual discourse around it annoys me because people place Holden on a pedestal. I cherish any time I find another reader who recognizes Holden for the immature, self-absorbed and messed-up kid he is because that's actually far more interesting. The events of the book take him down a peg, and that's where Salinger's storytelling shines. Nabokov writing a long-form poem, while I wasn't aware of it, is not the least bit surprising. Nabokov did many things in his career, but I'm fairly certain that following trends was never one of them. The use of annotations as a storytelling layer reminds me of the postmodern books that appeared during my youth: Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy (a fantasy series) and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (a gothic horror).

[@nissasbookcorner]

these all seem great! i really loved Open Throat by Henry Hoke, it’s from the perspective of a mountain lion in the hollywood hills just observing human life

[@labelledejour2849]

NEED to read them all

[@laurenschenck5355]

Love ur book recommendations so much Dakota ❤😊❤

[@fatimash.9223]

one of the strange books I read this year is Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata, I am sure you would like it, Dakota.

[@Ccthesloth]

I just read Cecilia by K-Ming Chang and that is very strange and beautifully written (lots of imagery and mentions of bodily fluids though). It is about obsessive love and girlhood so very Dakota coded ❤

[@korneliaraszewska9854]

i don't know if you've read august blue by deborah levy but i have a feeling you would really love it

[@stefan3876]

Thank you so much for the vlog!!!! 🎉🎉 I am overjoyed seeing you first thing on my notification ☺️☺️💓💓

[@martinhawrylkiewicz2025]

Hi there...Just came here to say I really like your channel since I love to read as well. And thank you for producing great content. I am always looking for book recommendations like the classics or gothic, something quirky to lose myself on a rainy day.

[@blazing_orchids]

a strange book i would like to recommend is "Innocence" by Jane Mendelsohn. My friend lent it to me in like 8th or 9th grade, the main character is a 14 year old going through the horrors of puberty, emphasis on horror. There may or may not be vampires. But the thing my friend told me that had me sold is there's a tea party where all the teacups have blood in them with tampons in them like teabags.

[@gerilamce9399]

Betty Blue is soooooo amazing! I would include "Evil Angels" by Pascal Brückner. The original title in french is "Lunes de Fiel" and there's also a movie by Polanski based upon it called "Bitter Moon". It fits the list for sure and the book is amazingly written.

[@gerilamce9399]

also if anyone is going to read my comment and decides to read the book... thank me later!

[@Meredithlrio]

DAKOTA'S video first thing in the morning with fruit in a dark room feels HEAVENLY!!!!!

[@anu-hz4be]

yessss strange nonfiction, too!!

[@HakimALIGHT]

John Fowles’ The Magus is one of my favorites. I think it’s better than The Collector.

[@laurenschenck5355]

Love bug sounds adorable and wonderful book 😊❤😊

[@random.oddities]

The algorithm decided to gift me with Strange Book channels today and I'm wondering why. It's not a bad thing, just strange.

[@HanonSama]

Speaking of strange books for strange people, I've been looking for this book since I read it in High School, but I only vaguely remember the plot, the title I can't remember for the life of me- but it's one of those books one gets deeply attached to and it becomes part of your personal lore? Any who, the spotty plot I remember is there's a girl/young woman as the main protagonist and her grandmother is a scientist and leader of their (group?), it's basically set in a world that's a (futuristic???)utopia and their (commune?) are a group of vegetarians. This is a group of well read individuals, does anyone have any idea which book this is?

[@rustyshackleford1875]

If you ever get chance, there’s a wonderful British 1965 adaptation of The Collector starring Terrence Stamp that’s well worth a watch. Not as good as the book but still a great film.

[@lukebeall1]

Catcher in the Rye is just awful. Its no wonder why Salinger became a recluse

[@smokeybandit7613]

I love you Dakota

[@saratarnociova]

everytime you start talking i have to stop the video and run to my notebook because I am hit by a tornado of inspiration. and everytime it shocks me

[@laurenschenck5355]

LUV U DAKOTA! 🩵🩵🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@magicalife3]

theres nothing like Pale Fire

[@imtiredanddone]

yesss someone else despising The catcher in the rye as much as me

[@NotOctavio848]

glad im not alone either

[@whiimsiical]

you should read the vegetarian by Han Kang if you haven't already. I think you would love it 💌

[@looseleaflyra]

I'm in London right now, just got back from Daunt Books. Obviously thinking about you so pretty sure I manifested this.

[@PlaceholderName-b4d]

I have found the book channel I was looking for

[@unamalalectora]

love your recs, you haaave to read mariana enriquez! you are gonna love her.