Books like Brave New World, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with Brave New World, normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.

#1

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

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

105 shared threads

#2

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

A fireman whose job is burning books starts wondering what's actually in the ones he's paid to destroy.

80 shared threads

#3

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

A handmaid is assigned to breed for a fertility-collapsed theocracy and starts plotting her way out.

58 shared threads

#4

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon colony travels to the wealthy world that exiled his people, carrying a theory that could reunite them or arm their enemies.

118 shared threads

#5

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.

112 shared threads

#6

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

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

54 shared threads

#7

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.

99 shared threads

#8

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.

41 shared threads

#9

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.

54 shared threads

#10

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

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

80 shared threads

#11

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.

117 shared threads

#12

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.

78 shared threads

The overlap, in numbers

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

1. #1 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell — 105 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — 80 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood — 58 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 118 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 112 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 54 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 99 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 The Road by Cormac McCarthy — 41 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes — 54 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — 80 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 Dune by Frank Herbert — 117 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 78 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF