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 chasing a suicide linked to 'False Memory Syndrome' collides with the scientist whose chair can overwrite reality with a life you never lived.

28 shared threads

#2

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

The multiverse thriller Reddit reaches for on autopilot, sometimes typing nothing but the title and still getting upvoted into the hundreds.

14 shared threads

#3

Red Rising

Pierce Brown

A low-caste miner surgically altered to pass as the ruling elite infiltrates the academy that killed his wife, planning to burn the system down from inside.

22 shared threads

#4

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

A nanovirus meant to uplift monkeys lands on spiders instead, and eight thousand years later the last human survivors arrive looking for a new Earth.

37 shared threads

#5

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims travel together to a planet that kills, each one carrying the private story of why they volunteered to go.

38 shared threads

#6

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

A disillusioned physicist's daughter answers a signal from another star and invites the invasion of Earth out of spite for humanity.

28 shared threads

#7

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Charlie Gordon's IQ triples after experimental brain surgery, then the same surgery begins failing, and he narrates his own decline in real time.

16 shared threads

#8

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

A child prodigy recruited into Battle School at six ends up commanding real war fleets, believing until the end that it's all just a simulation.

24 shared threads

#9

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time, bouncing between a WWII POW camp, a Tralfamadorian zoo, and his own suburban optometry practice, all at once.

12 shared threads

#10

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

A father and son push a shopping cart down a dead American highway, and the only rule left is that they're the good guys.

10 shared threads

#11

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

A falsely imprisoned sailor spends fourteen years in a fortress, learns of a hidden fortune, and returns to make sure everyone who wronged him pays for it.

6 shared threads

#12

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

A low-level bureaucrat rewrites yesterday's newspapers for a living, until he starts keeping a diary the government would kill him for.

10 shared threads

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