Books like “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”

What to read after “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett · 1983
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical” and “Satire”
- Whimsical
- Satire
Rincewind, a wizard who failed out of magic school, is saddled with guiding Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, on a chaotic tour. Their journey drags a naive optimist, a walking luggage chest and a very unwilling hero through one disaster after another.
2
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons · 1932
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical” and “Satire”
- Whimsical
- Satire
Practical Flora Poste, newly orphaned, moves in with her gloomy rural relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she sets about tidying their tangled lives, one absurd cousin at a time, in a comic send-up of romantic country novels.
3
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame · 1908
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
Mole leaves his underground home for the riverbank, where Rat, Badger and the reckless Mr. Toad become his friends. Their quiet days of boating and picnics are broken when Toad's craze for motorcars lands him in real trouble, and the four of them must set things right.
4
The Princess Bride
William Goldman · 1973
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical” and “Satire”
- Whimsical
- Satire
Buttercup and farm boy Westley are parted when he sails away to make his fortune and is reported killed by pirates, and she is promised to a prince she does not love. A swordsman, a giant and a scheming noble chase the pair across a kingdom of pirates and wonders, in a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale of true love.
5
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley · 1929
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
A box of poisoned chocolates kills a man at his club, and the police can find no culprit. Six members of the Crimes Circle, an armchair detective society, each offer a different solution to the same murder, until amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham tests their theories against the facts.
6
The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim · 1922
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
Four British women, strangers to one another, answer an advertisement to rent an Italian castle for April. Away from husbands and habit, each is quietly changed by the sun, the sea and the company of the others, and returns to her old life seeing it anew.
7
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata · 2016
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Keiko has worked at the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years and is content there, until the people around her begin pressuring her to want a normal life. Deadpan and sharp, the novel follows her attempt to perform the life others expect, by staging a relationship she does not want.
8
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle · 1968
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
A unicorn learns she may be the last of her kind and leaves her forest to search for the others. With a bumbling magician and a sharp-tongued woman she travels to a king's castle, where love and loss wait at the end of the road.
9
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1884
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
A boy fleeing his abusive father and a man escaping slavery travel together down the Mississippi on a raft. Their friendship grows as they meet swindlers and feuds along the way, and Huck must decide what he believes. A comic, humane adventure about freedom and conscience.
10
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
A country doctor's wife dreams of romance and a grander life than her dull provincial marriage offers. She takes lovers and spends beyond her means, chasing a happiness that keeps slipping away. A sharply observed novel about desire, debt and disillusion.
11
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett · 2004
Similar atmosphere: “Satire”
- Satire
Moist von Lipwig is a con man offered a choice: be hanged, or revive Ankh-Morpork's ruined post office. With the city's mail piled up undelivered in the crumbling post office and a rival message company sabotaging him, he sets out to make the letters move and stay ahead of his own past.
12
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith · 1948
Similar atmosphere: “Whimsical”
- Whimsical
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain writes her diary in a crumbling English castle where her family lives on almost nothing. When two wealthy American brothers arrive to claim the estate, love and money unsettle the household, and Cassandra grows up fast.