Books like Good Omens, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Gods who crossed the ocean with their immigrant worshippers are going extinct in modern America, replaced by whatever people actually worship now.

16 shared threads

#2

Kings of the Wyld

Nicholas Eames

Five washed-up mercenaries reunite the old band to cross a war-torn continent and rescue one of their daughters from a siege.

5 shared threads

#3

Guards! Guards!

Terry Pratchett

A drunk night-watch captain and a hulking, oblivious new recruit are the only thing standing between Ankh-Morpork and a secret society summoning a dragon.

7 shared threads

#4

Small Gods

Terry Pratchett

A god losing his believers gets reincarnated as a one-eyed tortoise, and the one true believer left can barely hear him over everyone praying past him to the priesthood.

6 shared threads

#5

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.

20 shared threads

#6

The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

A hobbit who has never left his own pantry gets recruited by thirteen dwarves and a wizard to steal treasure back from a dragon.

9 shared threads

#7

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Three brothers, a murdered father, and a murder trial become the frame Dostoevsky uses to argue about God, guilt, and free will for nearly a thousand pages.

3 shared threads

#8

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

A teenage drifter joins a scalp-hunting militia across the Texas-Mexico borderlands, led by a hairless giant who may not be entirely human.

7 shared threads

#9

The Eye of the World

Robert Jordan

Trollocs burn a village hunting for one of three farm boys, so an Aes Sedai spirits all three out before anyone learns which.

11 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.

20 shared threads

#11

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.

14 shared threads

#12

Mort

Terry Pratchett

Death hires a gawky teenage apprentice to swing the scythe for him, then discovers he would rather be fishing, farming, and not being the Grim Reaper.

3 shared threads

The overlap, in numbers

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

1. #1 American Gods by Neil Gaiman — 16 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Small Gods by Terry Pratchett — 6 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams — 20 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien — 9 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan — 11 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — 20 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — 14 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Mort by Terry Pratchett — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF