Books like A Court of Thorns and Roses, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with A Court of Thorns and Roses, normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.

#1

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

A street thief who can swallow metal and burn it for power gets recruited into a heist crew whose actual target is the immortal emperor who's ruled for a thousand years.

3 shared threads

#2

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

A bridgeman slave carries spears through a warzone he's not allowed to fight in, until he decides to become the soldier no one will follow.

3 shared threads

#3

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A dying astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with amnesia, two corpses for company, and Earth's one shot at survival riding on him.

5 shared threads

#4

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

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

7 shared threads

#5

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.

4 shared threads

#6

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

A gardener and three friends carry a cursed ring across a continent at war, because the only way to destroy it is to walk it into the volcano that forged it.

3 shared threads

#7

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

A human envoy crosses a glacier on foot with the one alien on the planet capable of ambisexuality, and neither of them trusts the other yet.

4 shared threads

#8

Dune

Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides survives his family's massacre on a desert planet and becomes the messiah the empire engineered him to be, then has to live with it.

5 shared threads

#9

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for the Mafia, moonlights as a hacker-samurai, and stumbles into a virus that infects minds instead of computers.

3 shared threads

#10

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to the capitalist planet his people fled, carrying a theory of time that could unite both worlds or arm one of them.

3 shared threads

#11

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A washed-up hacker gets his nervous system rebuilt for one last job, in a world Gibson invented before the internet existed to copy it.

3 shared threads

#12

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.

4 shared threads

The overlap, in numbers

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

1. #1 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Dune by Frank Herbert — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF