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Books like Everything Under
A damp, dread-soaked descent into memory and myth where the past is a murky river threatening to pull you under. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Everything Under.
- murky
- damp
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- 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
Among Others
Jo Walton
A quiet, fiercely intelligent love letter to the science fiction and fantasy books that save us when the real world becomes unbearable.
- 03
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin
A hilariously bleak and deeply tender spiral into the mind of an anxious lesbian trying to survive her own brain.
- 04
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
A dark, delicate fairy tale about the terrifying vastness of childhood and the memories we bury to survive growing up.
- 05
Ghost Wall
Sarah Moss
A taut, dread-soaked novella that tightens like a snare around your throat as ancient rituals bleed into modern domestic terror.
- 06
Year of the Witching
Alexis Henderson
A claustrophobic, blood-soaked descent into a dark wood where female rage blooms into terrifying power.
- 07
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix
A sweltering, blood-soaked slice of 1970s feminist horror where desperate girls turn to dark magic to reclaim their stolen futures.
- 08
Grief is the thing with feathers
Max Porter
A surreal, poetic, and darkly funny exploration of the chaotic shape that mourning takes in a shattered home.
- 09
The Seas
Samantha Hunt
A surreal, modern gothic exploration of grief where the boundaries between land, sea, and sanity wash away.
- 10
How to Be Both
Ali Smith
A playful, luminous meditation on art, grief, and the fluid nature of time and identity.
- 11
Our endless numbered days
Claire Fuller
A haunting, atmospheric descent into the wilderness where survival is entangled with dark family secrets and a fractured reality.
- 12
The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh
A sun-bleached, feverish exploration of sisterhood wrapped in a suffocating blanket of slow-creeping dread.
