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 tunnels a hole through space for a living, and the alien passenger they're ferrying turns the trip into a slow-burn found-family story.

373 shared threads

#2

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.

352 shared threads

#3

The Martian

Andy Weir

A botanist gets left for dead on Mars after a dust storm and has to grow his own food to survive until the next mission arrives, years later.

373 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.

506 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.

527 shared threads

#6

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.

266 shared threads

#7

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Earth gets demolished to build a hyperspace bypass, and the last man alive escapes only because an alien researching a galactic encyclopedia needed an assistant.

228 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.

436 shared threads

#9

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.

291 shared threads

#10

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.

264 shared threads

#11

Blindsight

Peter Watts

A crew of post-human specialists, one of them a resurrected vampire, gets sent to first contact and finds aliens that may not be conscious at all.

383 shared threads

#12

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.

273 shared threads

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