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Books like Pretty Monsters
A funny, surreal, and imaginative collection where the ordinary world hides bizarre, unsettling, and wondrous secrets. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Pretty Monsters.
- surreal
- eerie
- wondrous
- unpredictable
- 01
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 02
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 03
Welcome to Bordertown
Holly Black and Ellen Kushner
An electric, bohemian anthology where gritty street life collides with wild elfin magic.
- 04
The Weird
Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
A massive, labyrinthine cabinet of curiosities that will permanently tilt your perception of reality.
- 05
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . .
McSweeney's
A delightfully weird and slightly subversive funhouse of stories that refuses to take itself or the adult world too seriously.
- 06
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
April Genevieve Tucholke
A cinematic, blood-spattered love letter to classic horror that delivers bite-sized, unpredictable nightmares.
- 07
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Christian McKay Heidicker
A chilling, campfire-style descent into the dark woods where primal fears are met with fierce courage.
- 08
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.
- 09
Waifs and strays
Charles de Lint · 2002
A heartfelt collection of magical coming-of-age tales that reveals the ancient wonder hidden just beneath the surface of everyday life.
- 10
Under My Hat
Jonathan Strahan
A bubbling cauldron of magical coming-of-age tales that feels like a crisp autumn evening.
- 11
Zombies vs. Unicorns
Holly Black
A delightfully chaotic, tongue-in-cheek battle of tropes that pits the sparkly against the rotting.
- 12
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Laini Taylor
A lush, apocalyptic crescendo of star-crossed love and monstrous wars that demands to be devoured.
