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Books like Get in Trouble
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Get in Trouble.
- dreamlike
- eerie
- unsettling
- wondrous
- 01
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 02
Pretty Monsters
Kelly Link
A funny, surreal, and imaginative collection where the ordinary world hides bizarre, unsettling, and wondrous secrets.
- 03
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2000
A hilarious, heartbreaking funhouse mirror reflecting the soul-crushing absurdities of modern work and life.
- 04
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways.
- 05
Stories
Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
A genre-defying collection of imaginative tales that uses flashes of magic to reveal the unsettling truths hidden in the everyday.
- 06
Fragile Things
Neil Gaiman
A cabinet of curiosities where every drawer opens into a dark, dreamlike fairy tale.
- 07
The Weird
Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
A massive, labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities that will permanently tilt your perception of reality.
- 08
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 09
The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
A razor-sharp, emotionally resonant collection that examines how the ghosts of history haunt our most intimate relationships.
- 10
Tenth of December
George Saunders
A surreal, darkly funny, and ultimately tender exploration of the bizarre moral obstacle course of modern life.
- 11
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky: The most acclaimed short story collection of the year
Lesley Nneka Arimah
A dazzling, subversive collection that bends reality to explore the deep, sometimes unsettling ties of family, heritage, and love.
- 12
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
A dark, modern fairy tale that transforms the very real anxieties of new parenthood into a terrifying, magical odyssey through the hidden realms of New York City.
