Books like All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries), according to Reddit

The read-alike list

Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries), normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.

#1

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

A ragtag crew takes a multi-year tunneling job to punch a wormhole through space and mostly just has to get along with each other for the ride.

373 shared threads · praised

#2

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A high-school teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there and one job left: save Earth.

352 shared threads · praised

#3

The Martian

Andy Weir

A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.

373 shared threads · mixed

#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.

506 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.

527 shared threads · mixed

#6

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.

266 shared threads · praised

#7

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.

228 shared threads · praised

#8

Dune

Frank Herbert

A duke's son survives his family's betrayal on a desert planet and becomes the prophet who leads its people to war.

436 shared threads · mixed

#9

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

An envoy is sent alone to a planet where everyone is genderless most of the month, and he has to unlearn who he assumes is in charge.

291 shared threads · praised

#10

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

A pizza-delivery samurai and a skateboard courier chase a mind-hacking virus through a franchised, corporate America.

264 shared threads · mixed

#11

Blindsight

Peter Watts

A crew of post-human specialists meets first contact and reports back that consciousness might be what's holding humanity back.

383 shared threads · praised

#12

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A burned-out hacker banned from cyberspace takes one last job to breach the AI that might already own a piece of him.

273 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 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers — 373 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 352 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 The Martian by Andy Weir — 373 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 506 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 527 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Red Rising by Pierce Brown — 266 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams — 228 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Dune by Frank Herbert — 436 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 291 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — 264 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 Blindsight by Peter Watts — 383 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 273 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF