Read-alikes

Books Like The Ten Thousand Doors of January

The Ten Thousand Doors of January is hidden world / portal, quest & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

In early twentieth-century America, January Scaller — the mixed-race ward of a wealthy collector — discovers a mysterious book that reveals the existence of magical doors scattered across worlds, and begins to unravel the truth about her missing parents and her own extraordinary nature. As she follows the book's story of two lovers separated by worlds, January realises her own life mirrors their tale in ways that are anything but coincidence. A lyrical portal fantasy about the power of stories to set you free, the cost of colonialism, and the lengths one girl will go to find where she truly belongs.