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Books like The hike
A profane, hallucinatory fever dream of a midlife crisis that hides a devastatingly beautiful core. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The hike.
- fever-dreamish
- bizarre
- claustrophobic
- hallucinatory
- 01
Ritual
Adam L. G. Nevill
A tense wilderness trek unravels into a desperate fight for survival against ancient, primal horrors.
- 02
The Fisherman
John Langan
A sprawling, sorrowful folktale that wades through the quiet agony of grief before plunging into the terrifying depths of the cosmic unknown.
- 03
The postmortal
Drew Magary
A darkly hilarious and deeply unsettling front-row seat to the slow-motion collapse of a society that forgot how to die.
- 04
California bones
Greg Van Eekhout
A gritty, sun-baked magical heist where a ragtag crew consumes the bones of mythical creatures to steal back their future.
- 05
The Ruins
Scott Smith
A sun-drenched vacation curdles into a claustrophobic, relentless nightmare of survival and psychological collapse.
- 06
The Hill of Dreams
Arthur Machen · 1907
A lush, hallucinatory descent into the mind of a doomed artist consumed by his own dark, pagan imaginings.
- 07
What the Hell Did I Just Read
David Wong
A hilarious and chaotic plunge into a terrifying, illusion-filled mystery where incompetence is just as dangerous as the monsters.
- 08
Abandon
Blake Crouch
A chilling descent into a frozen, isolated ghost town where history's darkest secrets refuse to stay buried.
- 09
The Book of Accidents
Chuck Wendig
A dread-soaked supernatural thriller where a family's fierce love is their only defense against the hungry, haunting traumas of their past.
- 10
Krampus
Brom
A dark, wintry collision of Appalachian grit and ancient holiday myth, where broken dreams fuel a desperate fight for redemption.
- 11
The River
Peter Heller
A lyrical but terrifying descent into the wilderness where the beauty of nature masks both human malice and elemental fury.
- 12
Then we came to the end
Joshua Ferris
A brilliantly deadpan, hive-mind chronicle of the absurdities, anxieties, and unexpected intimacies of modern office life.
