8 Portal Fantasy Books for Fans of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

Many girls daydream that they're secretly princesses and will one day be returned to their rightful place on the throne. In Miranda Popescu's case, her dream is literally true. Adopted from an agency in Bucharest by an American couple and raised from infancy in a Massachusetts college town, she is a key figure in a long-standing political fight between conjurers in an alternate reality named "Roumania." 

When the day comes for Miranda to find out the truth, she joins forces with her best friends, Peter and Andromeda, to prepare for her future and a sinister battle for control.

After rewriting the origins of Oz with Wicked, Gregory Maguire turned his attention to Lewis Carroll's beloved Wonderland. After Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she left behind her own world of 1860s Oxford. Her friend Ada has come to town to visit her friend, but arrived a moment too late to see Alice stumbling down a rabbit hole. What else can she do but follow? 

Now, Ada is exploring the Wonderland we knew and love, a place of beautiful nonsense where the rules are always changing. Can she find Alice and bring her safely home, or is she forever enthralled to Wonderland?

Hugh Rogers wants more from his life than the endless cycle of monotony he's currently stuck in. That's how he ended up in "the beginning place", a gateway to the idyllic world of Tembreabrezi, a place where twilight is eternal. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. 

Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love this place as her true home. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy it all, and it's up to Hugh and Irena to join forces and save the day. 

And hey, if they fall in love along the way, even better!

Brody Fair has had enough of real life. He's sick of being seen as second best to his genius brother and of being the outcast at school where every bully has chosen him as their favorite target. He wants out, and he doesn't care where he ends up. 

Then he meets Nico, a brash and flamboyant kid who promises to take Brody to Everland, a magical place where you can be whatever you want to be. 

The only catch? It's a place so good, you could lose yourself and forget what's real. What will Brody choose?

Sometimes, a door will appear, just when you need it. These doors open up worlds, strange places unlike our own. Some are magical and comforting. Others are far more nefarious. And occasionally, those who enter the doors come back. The kids who return and struggle to reintegrate with their old lives have a home at Miss West's school for wayward children. 

Nancy is one such person. She desperately wants to return to her door, but it may never happen. Now, a mystery is unfolding at her new school. Kids are dying, and it's up to Nancy and her schoolmates to find the culprit before they're next.

Piranesi lives in a strange house. Its rooms are seemingly infinite. The corridors go on and on for miles, and the walls are lined with thousands and thousands of statues, each of which is unique and without explanation. There is an ocean engulfing the basement rooms. Clouds float through the top ones. And Piranesi explores it all. 

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into some strange and secret scheme. Piranesi thinks they're friends, even though he knows nothing about The Other. Then again, he doesn't really know who he himself is. Piranesi isn't his real name. Finding out the truth could make his entire world unravel.

Before it was a beloved TV series, Outlander was the book that became an unexpected bestseller and launched an epic saga spanning centuries and continents. In 1945, in the aftermath of the Second World War, Claire Randall is on her second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands. While exploring the landscape, she steps into a circle of standing stones and suddenly finds herself transported back in time to 1743. 

Scotland is at war with England and the English Claire becomes involved with the Clan Fraser and its dashing young heir Jamie. In a past she doesn't understand, Claire becomes married to Jamie and becomes torn between desire and fidelity. Theirs is a love that will challenge the very concept of destiny.

In the early 1900s, January Scaller lives a curious life. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels trapped in his beautiful mansion full of gorgeous treasures and artefacts. She worries that she'll never be free of this gilded cage or find her own place in the world. Then she finds a strange book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells grand tales of secret doors to impossible worlds you could never find on a map. Its story is also connected to her own, but in what way?