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Books like Ninth House
A gritty, blood-soaked descent into the ivy-choked underbelly of elite privilege and dark magic. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Ninth House.
- dread-soaked
- autumnal
- gothic
- claustrophobic
- 01
Hell Bent
Leigh Bardugo
A gritty, occult descent into the underworld where survival requires breaking every rule and trusting the most unlikely of monsters.
- 02
Harrow the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
A hallucinatory, grief-fueled puzzle box of bone magic and shattered memories that demands you surrender to its brilliant chaos.
- 03
King of Scars
Leigh Bardugo
A witty, shadow-drenched exploration of the monsters we hide behind a charming smile.
- 04
Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
A tender, bizarrely cozy slice-of-life story wrapped in the skin of a devastating apocalyptic horror.
- 05
Lightlark
Alex Aster
A glittering, cutthroat magical tournament where every alliance is a trap and survival means risking your heart.
- 06
The Gilded Wolves
Roshani Chokshi
A glittering, velvet-draped heist where the banter is sharp, the magic is dark, and the found family will break your heart.
- 07
The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern
A lush, labyrinthine love letter to stories and the people who lose themselves in them, wrapped in a dreamscape of honey, keys, and hidden doors.
- 08
Starling House
Alix E. Harrow
A dreamlike, eerie descent into a haunted legacy where a cynical outcast finally finds a home worth fighting for.
- 09
The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake
A cerebral, velvet-draped descent into the intoxicating and toxic nature of absolute power.
- 10
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
A claustrophobic, Shakespeare-soaked descent into the dark side of obsessive friendship and performative art.
- 11
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.
- 12
Legendborn
Tracy Deonn
A fierce, grief-fueled collision of Southern Black history and Arthurian legend hidden within an elite college campus.
