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A hilariously bleak and deeply tender spiral into the mind of an anxious lesbian trying to survive her own brain. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.
- absurd
- melancholic
- claustrophobic
- quirky
- 01
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
A haunting, slow-burn exploration of anticipatory grief wrapped in the eerie, claustrophobic dread of the deep ocean.
- 02
Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron
A dark, defiant fairy tale where the glass slipper is a trap and the princesses are holding the matches.
- 03
Breaking Character
Lee Winter
A deliciously tense, slow-burn Hollywood romance where a frosty facade melts under the warmth of a sunny, fake-dating co-star.
- 04
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
Emma R. Alban
A delightful, swoon-worthy romp through Victorian ballrooms where a matchmaking scheme accidentally sparks a breathless queer romance.
- 05
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
A deliciously macabre and queer gothic tale that blurs the line between a cursed Gilded Age history and a modern Hollywood haunting.
- 06
Honey Girl
Morgan Rogers
A tender, lyrical exploration of millennial burnout and the terrifying, beautiful leap into the unknown of adulthood and love.
- 07
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Ashley Herring Blake
A sharp, steamy, and surprisingly tender exploration of coming home, shedding armor, and falling for the girl you used to love to hate.
- 08
Everything Under
Daisy Johnson
A damp, dread-soaked descent into memory and myth where the past is a murky river threatening to pull you under.
- 09
Built to last
Aurora Rey
A warm, opposites-attract romance built on the foundations of a rustic farmhouse renovation.
- 10
Everything Leads to You
Nina LaCour
A sun-drenched, cinematic love letter to the magic of movie-making and the tender vulnerability of first love.
- 11
Some Desperate Glory
Emily Tesh
A furious, mind-bending journey of unlearning everything you were raised to believe in the cold vacuum of space.
- 12
Written in the Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur
A sparkling, opposites-attract romance that wraps you in the cozy, chaotic warmth of falling for the last person you expected.
