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Paul Tremblay · 2018 · US · horror
★ 3.32 Goodreads · 97,113 ratings

Seven-year-old Wen and her fathers, Eric and Andrew, are on holiday at a remote lakeside cabin in New Hampshire when four strangers carrying homemade weapons arrive and tell them they must make an unthinkable choice to prevent the end of the world.

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12 books for readers of The Cabin at the End of the World

Misery

Stephen King · 1987 · US 96% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 868,011 ratings
shares: captivity, claustrophobic, dread · suspenseful, intimate

A bestselling novelist is rescued from a car wreck by his self-proclaimed biggest fan, who imprisons him and demands he write the book she wants.

We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer · 2024 · Canada 93% match ★ 3.58 Goodreads · 347,372 ratings
shares: claustrophobic, dread, queer · suspenseful, intimate

Charlie and her girlfriend Eve are renovating an old house they bought cheaply, and when a family knocks one evening asking to look around the home the father grew up in, Charlie lets them in, and they do not seem to want to leave.

The Quiet Tenant

Clémence Michallon · 2023 · US 93% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 160,779 ratings
shares: captivity, claustrophobic · dark, intimate

A small-town widower who has kept a woman chained in his shed for five years moves his daughter and his prisoner into a new house together, and the prisoner starts to look for a way out.

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle · 2023 · US 92% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 31,495 ratings
shares: queer, religious, religion · suspenseful, easy read

Rose Darling is a devout, cheerful teenager in Neverton, Montana, home of the most successful gay conversion camp in the country, and when she begins having terrifying visions no one can explain, she goes looking for what her church and her town have hidden.

Cell

Stephen King · 2006 · US 92% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 242,371 ratings
shares: apocalyptic, dread, brutal · suspenseful, easy read

Clay Riddell, an artist in Boston on the day he sells his graphic novel, watches everyone on a mobile phone suddenly turn violent, and sets off north to find his son in Maine.

Survivor Song

Paul Tremblay · 2020 · US 92% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 22,014 ratings
shares: dread · suspenseful, intimate

As a fast-moving rabies-like virus sweeps Massachusetts, Ramola Sherman, a paediatrician, gets a call from her friend Natalie, eight months pregnant, who has just been bitten.

Sundial

Catriona Ward · 2022 · UK 92% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 27,816 ratings
shares: isolated, family · dark, suspenseful

Rob, a mother in the suburbs who fears what her older daughter Callie is becoming, drives her out to Sundial, the remote desert house where Rob grew up, and begins telling her the family's story.

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay · 2015 · US 92% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 114,587 ratings
shares: religious, family · intimate, suspenseful

Fifteen years after her older sister's apparent possession was turned into a reality TV show, Merry Barrett tells a writer what really happened in their house when she was eight.

The Fireman

Joe Hill · 2016 · US 92% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 68,547 ratings
shares: apocalyptic, dread · suspenseful, dark

A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.

The Ruins

Scott Smith · 2006 · US 92% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 73,492 ratings
shares: isolated, claustrophobic, dread · suspenseful, dark

Four young Americans on holiday in Cancún agree to help a German tourist find his brother, who went off to an archaeological dig in the jungle and has not come back.

Burnt Offerings

Robert Marasco · 1973 · US 89% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 10,529 ratings
shares: isolated, claustrophobic, family · intimate, suspenseful

Ben and Marian Rolfe and their son rent a grand old country house for the summer at an absurdly low price, on one condition: that they look after the owners' elderly mother, who never leaves her room.

Room

Emma Donoghue · 2010 · Ireland 89% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 850,252 ratings
shares: captivity, claustrophobic · intimate, suspenseful

Five-year-old Jack has lived his whole life in an eleven-foot-square room with his mother, held prisoner by a man they call Old Nick, and to Jack, Room is the whole world.