Ten Favorite (Interior) Portal Novels
(This is a list of novels, by request and in alphabetical order by author, in which characters access other worlds via their own minds rather than by wardrobes, doors, or other such exterior mechanisms. An inverse companion list is here.)
The Other City by Michal Ajvaz
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy
Dreamside by Graham Joyce
The Room by Jonas Karlsson
Familiar by J. Robert Lennon
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
— January 7, 2023