If you loved
Books like Alice
A blood-soaked, nightmarish descent into a ruined wonderland where survival means becoming as ruthless as your captors. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Alice.
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- nightmarish
- grim
- 01
Alice In Zombieland
Gena Showalter
A high-octane blend of supernatural revenge and swoony paranormal romance that hits like a shot of adrenaline.
- 02
Unbirthday
Liz Braswell
A nostalgic yet eerie return to a childhood wonderland that has grown just as dark and complicated as adulthood.
- 03
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1869
A surreal, logic-defying tumble into a dreamscape where language is a playground and adult rules are exposed as utter nonsense.
- 04
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
A lush, defiant love letter to the magic of storytelling and the hidden thresholds that lead us to where we belong.
- 05
Heartless
Marissa Meyer
A whimsical, sugar-dusted romance that slowly curdles into an inevitable, heartbreaking tragedy.
- 06
The Night Country
Melissa Albert
A dark, gritty collision of modern city streets and blood-soaked fairy tales where magic is a menace you cannot outrun.
- 07
Splintered
A. G. Howard
A delightfully creepy, sensory-rich descent into a twisted wonderland where madness is a weapon and the grotesque is beautiful.
- 08
The Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor
A high-octane, weaponized reimagining of a classic tale where whimsy is replaced by warfare and survival.
- 09
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
A deeply unsettling descent into backwoods terror, anchored by a fiercely relatable narrator and her very good dog.
- 10
Malice
Heather Walter
A lush, sapphic villain origin story that asks what happens when the monster decides she would rather burn the kingdom down than lose the girl.
- 11
The Hazel Wood
Melissa Albert
A thorny, atmospheric descent into a world where fairy tales are real, predatory, and hungry for blood.
- 12
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
A dark, wistful love letter to the children who fell through the cracks of reality and the worlds that ruined them for the ordinary.
