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Books like Walking on Glass
A surreal, disorienting puzzle of a novel where paranoia, romantic obsession, and impossible riddles hurtle toward an inevitable collision. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Walking on Glass.
- disorienting
- mysterious
- unsettling
- 01
Complicity
Iain Banks
A drug-fueled, politically charged descent into the darkest corners of justice and moral decay.
- 02
Matter
Banks, Iain M.
A sprawling, awe-inspiring space opera that plunges you into the dizzying depths of an artificial world where feudal politics collide with god-like technology.
- 03
Whit
Iain Banks
A wry, culture-clash journey of a sheltered cult member navigating the bewildering landscape of Nineties Britain while her worldview slowly unravels.
- 04
Against a Dark Background
Banks, Iain M.
A relentless, darkly inventive chase across a decaying solar system where the past is as lethal as the assassins on your tail.
- 05
Glasshouse
Charles Stross · 2006
A claustrophobic, mind-bending thriller that traps you in a terrifyingly mundane simulation to dissect the fragility of identity and gender.
- 06
The Dervish House
Ian McDonald
A kaleidoscopic, near-future thriller where ancient history and bleeding-edge nanotechnology collide in the bustling streets of Istanbul.
- 07
Under the skin
Michel Faber
A masterclass in creeping dread that slowly peels back the mundane to reveal something profoundly alien and devastating.
- 08
Halting State
Charles Stross · 2007
A wry, hyper-connected near-future procedural that drops you directly into the driver's seat of a virtual bank heist.
- 09
The Cassini Division
Ken MacLeod · 1999
A sharp, politically charged space opera that wrestles with the terrifying threshold between humanity and post-humanity.
- 10
The stone gods
Jeanette Winterson · 2007
A lyrical, surreal journey through space and time that marvels at the bizarre scales of a new world while confronting humanity's ecological footprint.
- 11
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
A sleek, jet-lagged dive into the hyper-connected paranoia of the early internet and the semiotics of global cool.
- 12
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling · 2002
A globe-trotting, idea-dense plunge into the dark, data-pirated underbelly of a seemingly utopian corporate future.
