“I strongly recommend The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. It is similar [to House of Leaves] in its goal, but better in its execution.”

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• “Another reason people love House of Leaves is because it's very weird, and there's no weirder author out there right now than Jeff Vandemeer.”
• “Annihilation deals with different portals and different worlds, and it's just bonkers, so if you like being confused about what's actually going on, this is a good book for you.”

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• “If you put Hereditary and Mulholland Drive in a blender, Brat by Gabriel Smith would pop out as your nasty horror weird smoothie.”
• “I've heard if you're a fan of House of Leaves, you might like this.”
• “When Gabriel's dad passes away, he decides to move back to his childhood home to work on his second novel. And when his mental state starts to deteriorate—meaning he starts pulling off chunks of his skin—the house starts to mirror him and deteriorate as well.”

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• “The thing that makes [In the Lake of the Woods] a lot like House of Leaves is that there are three different types of chapters. There are third-person POV chapters.… [W]e also get chapters that are called ‘evidence’. This is sometimes literal evidence from the police … [and sometimes] quotes from people in John's life…. [T]hen occasionally we get chapters that are called ‘hypothesis.’ [E]ach one of those chapters says maybe this is what happened.…”
• “If you liked House of Leaves or you're intrigued by it, but maybe wanna try something a little bit more straightforward first, I can recommend In the Lake of the Woods.”

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• “I thought this was just cool as hell, so I thought I would share [this unboxing video of the book S.]. I heard it was like House of Leaves.”
• “It's by J.J. Abrams, the TV movie guy, and Doug Doorst.”
• “It's like a library book by a fictional author. [It even has] call letters on the spine … [and] other people that have written notes into the page.… [T]here's also maps and articles and stuff that the previous people that have checked out the book have shoved into the thing.”

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• “House of Leaves is a very dark book, and in my opinion, there is no darker book than Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.”
• “[T]he story is absolutely bonkers, and I have absolutely no idea how this thing got published in the first place…”
• “I recommend checking it out if you want to just continually go ‘holy shit’ the entire time.”

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“House of Leaves also has multiple storylines that interweave and overlap, and if you like stuff like that, then you will love The Present is Past by a wonderful author named ‘me’ [the man in the video].”

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“[Piranesi and House of Leaves] both have mythological creatures. They both have labyrinths. They both have … living spaces that are expanding. And [Piranesi] has a similar sense of mind fuckery. I don't know how else to put it, but I absolutely love it.”

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“I'm not the first person to notice some at-least-superficial similarities between [House of Leaves] and last year's Night Film, by Marisha Pessl. Both books give readers a collection of parts from which they can almost make their own construction. Perhaps it isn’t a coincidence that both deal with works of film, and in their construction variously bend time and use jump-cuts, split-screen, and the scene-setting of a movie.”

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