Read-alikes and related books

Books like Ice

Looking for read-alikes for Ice by Anna Kavan? These 24 titles overlap in Nature & the Environment, England, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, and Dystopian and overall literary texture.

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Top related books to Ice

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Ice.

The Last Man

Mary W. Shelley

Themes: England • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian

What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

Themes: Nature & the Environment • England • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer

Themes: Nature & the Environment • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian

Sunbirth

An Yu

Themes: Nature & the Environment • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Themes: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian • World Literature

The Land in Winter

Andrew Miller

Themes: Nature & the Environment • England • World Literature

Lud-In-The-Mist

Hope Mirrlees

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

Camp Zero A Novel

Michelle Min Sterling

Themes: Nature & the Environment • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Themes: Dystopian • World Literature • 20th Century

#10

Flatlands

Sue Hubbard

Themes: Nature & the Environment • England • World Literature

#11

Lights Out in Lincolnwood A Novel

Geoff Rodkey

Themes: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian • World Literature

#12

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

Themes: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic • Dystopian • World Literature

#13

The Silmarillion

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#14

Modern Classics Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#15

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #1 The Silmarillion / Unfinished Tales / Book of Lost Tales, Part One / Book of Lost Tales, Part Two

Christopher Tolkien

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#16

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#17

Dr. No A James Bond Novel

Ian Fleming

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#18

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#19

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Agatha Christie

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#20

Carry On, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#21

Bird of Paradise

Ada Leverson

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#22

The History of Middle-Earth Box Set #3 The Return of the Shadow / The Treason of Isengard / The War of the Ring / Sauron Defeated

Christopher Tolkien

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#23

A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

#24

Orlando A Biography

Virginia Woolf

Themes: England • World Literature • 20th Century

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Ice by Anna Kavan. Connected by Nature & the Environment, England, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic. Authors featured include Mary W. Shelley, Ian McEwan, Marlen Haushofer, An Yu, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.