Books like 11/22/63, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with 11/22/63, normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.

#1

Recursion

Blake Crouch

A detective investigating a woman's impossible suicide finds a chair that implants false memories, and reality starts fracturing under the weight of them.

28 shared threads · praised

#2

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

A physicist gets abducted into a box that opens onto every version of the life he could have lived, and has to find his way back to one.

14 shared threads · praised

#3

Red Rising

Pierce Brown

A miner's son fakes his way into the ruling class's brutal war-games academy to bring down the system that executed his wife.

22 shared threads · praised

#4

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

A terraforming experiment goes wrong, a nanovirus lands on spiders instead of monkeys, and evolution builds a civilization nobody planned for.

37 shared threads · praised

#5

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims journey toward a monster that grants one wish and kills everyone else, and each tells the story of why they came.

38 shared threads · mixed

#6

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

A Chinese radio astronomer's decades-old reply to an alien signal puts Earth on a collision course with an invasion fleet centuries out.

28 shared threads · panned

#7

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

A man with a low IQ undergoes surgery that turns him into a genius, and has to watch the intelligence, and everyone's honesty, fade back out.

16 shared threads · praised

#8

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

A six-year-old is drafted into a war academy that trains him to command a fleet, and he doesn't find out what he actually did until it's over.

24 shared threads · praised

#9

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

An American POW survives the firebombing of Dresden, comes unstuck in time, and starts reliving his life out of order.

12 shared threads · mixed

#10

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

A father and son push a cart of scavenged supplies across a burned-out America, repeating that they're "the good guys" long after anyone else stopped believing it.

10 shared threads · mixed

#11

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

A framed sailor rots in an island prison for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and spends the rest of the book collecting on every debt of vengeance.

6 shared threads · praised

#12

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

A minor bureaucrat rewrites history for a living until the Party decides his private thoughts are the real problem.

10 shared threads · praised

The overlap, in numbers

Where each pairing actually shows up. Click through for the full Reddit verdict on each book.

1. #1 Recursion by Blake Crouch — 28 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch — 14 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Red Rising by Pierce Brown — 22 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 37 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 38 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin — 28 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes — 16 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 24 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 12 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 The Road by Cormac McCarthy — 10 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas — 6 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell — 10 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF