Books like Dune, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

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.

928 shared threads · mixed

#2

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

A mathematician predicts the fall of a galactic empire and hides the fix inside an encyclopedia nobody will read for a thousand years.

411 shared threads · panned

#3

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.

451 shared threads · praised

#4

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.

410 shared threads · praised

#5

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.

565 shared threads · praised

#6

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.

385 shared threads · mixed

#7

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

A Chinese radio astronomer's decades-old reply to an alien signal puts Earth on a collision course with an invasion fleet centuries out.

429 shared threads · panned

#8

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.

397 shared threads · praised

#9

The Lord of the Rings

J. R. R. Tolkien

A gardener, a burglar's heir, and seven others walk a piece of jewelry to a volcano because destroying it is the only way to stop a war.

278 shared threads · mixed

#10

Blindsight

Peter Watts

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

522 shared threads · praised

#11

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.

309 shared threads · praised

#12

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

Martha Wells

A security robot hacks its own governor module, gains free will, and spends its days streaming soap operas instead of killing anyone.

436 shared threads · mixed

The overlap, in numbers

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

1. #1 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 928 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Foundation by Isaac Asimov — 411 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 451 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 410 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 565 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 385 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin — 429 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 397 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — 278 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 Blindsight by Peter Watts — 522 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 Red Rising by Pierce Brown — 309 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 436 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF