Charity spends her summer playing the final girl at a camp that stages scenes from a classic slasher film. On the last weekend of the season her co-workers vanish, a body turns up, and the game becomes a real fight to survive the night.
New at an elite New York school, Rachel finds a place in the Mary Shelley Club, a secret society of horror-movie fans who stage elaborate Fear Tests on chosen victims. Then a sinister masked figure appears, and the past Rachel has been hiding returns to threaten the new life she has built.
After her mother's death, Quinn moves with her father to Kettle Springs, a Missouri town split between resentful adults and bored teenagers. At the Founder's Day party in a cornfield, the town mascot, Frendo the Clown, begins killing students, and Quinn has to work out who can be trusted.
Makani moved from Hawaii to a small Nebraska town and is still guarding a secret from her past. Then students at her high school are murdered one by one, each killing exposing something the victim hid, and the killer edges closer to her.
Every summer Cadence joins her wealthy family on their private island, where she and three cousins form an unbreakable group. The summer she is fifteen something goes wrong, and Cadence returns two years later with gaps in her memory that she is desperate to fill.
Seven members of a university mystery club sail to a remote island that was the scene of an unsolved family murder a year earlier. Cut off by a storm, they are killed one by one, and the survivors must use the rules of detective fiction to name the killer before none are left.
Sloan and Cherry are the only counselors who survived a massacre at their summer camp. Months later, as Sloan's memory of that night returns, she starts to suspect that Cherry knows more about the attack than she admits.
In the summer of 1983, thirteen-year-old Cyndi runs away from camp with three new friends and stumbles on an empty, well-kept water park. A masked killer is waiting there, and Cyndi has to become the kind of survivor she never expected to be.
In 1954 two US marshals travel to a hospital for the criminally insane on an island off Massachusetts to find a patient who has disappeared. As a storm cuts the island off, one of them begins to suspect the investigation is not what he was told.
Lindsay survived a masked killer and is now her Texas town's celebrated final girl. When the killings start again, she recruits a new homecoming court of misfits and horror veterans, and the story turns into a knowing, blood-soaked riff on slasher rules.
Jade, a high-school senior obsessed with slasher films, is sure a killer has come to her small Idaho town. Nobody believes her, so she pins her hopes on a new classmate she thinks is destined to be the final girl who survives. Her theory is also a way of outlasting her own life.
Six women who each survived a famous mass murder meet in a therapist's group to cope with the aftermath. When one of them is killed, the group's most guarded member goes on the run to learn who is hunting them and why their old cases keep being reopened.
In 1921, an Iñupiat seamstress joins a Canadian expedition to Wrangel Island as a cook. When the men leave or die, she is left alone on the island for months, learning to hunt and survive while waiting for a rescue that may never come.
Jack is summoned home to Cadence, an island of two peoples, to find girls who have vanished without trace. He must work with Adaira, the laird's daughter, and call on the spirits he abandoned. On an island steeped in old magic, old grudges and new feelings refuse to stay buried.
Ten years after surviving a massacre at a remote cabin in the woods, Quincy has built a quiet life out of pills, baking and careful routine. When another survivor from that group of women dies and a third turns up at her door, the past she cannot fully remember starts to close in again.
On a remote Scottish island, sixteen-year-old Frank lives by strange rituals and guards family secrets. His routine shifts when his older brother escapes from a hospital and comes home, and the story Frank tells about himself begins to come apart.
During a mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Alone with limited supplies and no way to call Earth, he applies his botany and engineering skills to grow food and signal that he is alive.
Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a luxury airship that crosses the oceans. When a pirate raid and a storm leave the ship stranded on a remote island, Matt and a rich passenger's daughter, Kate, search for the flying creatures her grandfather claimed to have seen before the pirates close in.
Juliet Moreau, the daughter of a disgraced doctor, works in London until she learns her father is alive and continuing his work on a remote island. She travels there, finds his laboratory and the creatures he has made, and is caught between two men who want her as she learns what his experiments have cost.
As a teenager, Tessa was the only victim to survive the killer who buried girls in a Texas field of wildflowers, and her testimony sent a man to death row. Nearly twenty years later, fresh flowers appear near her home, and lawyers ask her to recover the memories she lost.
In 1740 a British warship hunting a Spanish treasure galleon is wrecked off Patagonia. Months later two groups of survivors reach South America with opposing stories, and a court martial must decide which men were heroes and which were mutineers.
Five boys and their scoutmaster camp on a remote island for a weekend. A starving stranger arrives by boat, carrying a parasite that turns the body against itself. As the infection spreads, the small group's most immediate danger becomes one of the boys themselves.
Shipwrecked alone on a deserted island, a castaway named Robinson Crusoe builds a life from nothing: shelter, crops and a canoe. Years of solitude end when he finds a footprint in the sand and rescues a man he names Friday.
Five Union prisoners escape a siege in a hot-air balloon and are blown onto an uncharted island. There they rebuild a small civilization from its resources, aided by an unseen hand and threatened by a hidden danger.
Start with “You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight”, “The Last Girl”, “Clown in a Cornfield”: they are the closest to “Ten” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “Ten” these are Final Girl, Survival, Deserted Island), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight”, “The Last Girl”, “Clown in a Cornfield”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
