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A delightfully unhinged, surrealist romp where a marginalized nonagenarian embraces occult anarchy to overthrow the establishment. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The hearing trumpet.
- surreal
- hallucinatory
- anarchic
- whimsical
- 01
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.
- 02
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll · 1968
A surreal, linguistic playground where dream logic reigns and the rules of reality are turned delightfully upside down.
- 03
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
A dark, wistful love letter to the children who fell through the cracks of reality and the worlds that ruined them for the ordinary.
- 04
In the night garden
Catherynne Valente · 2006
A lush, labyrinthine tapestry of dark fairy tales and shifting myths spun by a lonely girl with stories inked on her eyelids.
- 05
The circus of Dr. Lao
Charles G. Finney · 1935
A darkly satirical carnival ride that strips away the mundane illusions of small-town life to reveal the terrifying, absurd wonders beneath.
- 06
The Shrinking of Treehorn
Heidi, Florence Parry · 1989
A delightfully deadpan fable about the surreal absurdity of being a child in a world run by profoundly oblivious adults.
- 07
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
A dizzying descent into a library of infinite mirrors, where reality, time, and identity constantly shift and dissolve.
- 08
Alice
Christina Henry
A blood-soaked, nightmarish descent into a ruined wonderland where survival means becoming as ruthless as your captors.
- 09
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A hypnotic, puzzle-box journal of a beautiful, flooded labyrinth that slowly reveals a heartbreaking mystery.
- 10
Oona Out of Order
Margarita Montimore
A bittersweet, decade-hopping puzzle that explores the beauty and heartbreak of living life entirely out of sequence.
- 11
Unbirthday
Liz Braswell
A nostalgic yet eerie return to a childhood wonderland that has grown just as dark and complicated as adulthood.
- 12
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
A lush, time-bending romp that playfully dismantles the boundaries of gender, history, and the self.
