Books like Jane Eyre, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

An orogene comes home to find her son beaten to death and her daughter gone, the same day a continent starts splitting apart.

7 shared threads

#2

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Charlie Gordon's IQ triples after experimental brain surgery, then the same surgery begins failing, and he narrates his own decline in real time.

5 shared threads

#3

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.

7 shared threads

#4

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

Martha Wells

A security android with no interest in gender, romance, or heroics just wants to watch its shows, and ends up saving its clients from a conspiracy anyway.

8 shared threads

#5

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.

5 shared threads

#6

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

A mathematician predicts the empire's collapse centuries out and plants a colony at the galaxy's edge to shrink the coming dark age from thirty thousand years to one.

4 shared threads

#7

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.

4 shared threads

#8

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims travel together to a planet that kills, each one carrying the private story of why they volunteered to go.

5 shared threads

#9

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.

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 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 8 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Foundation by Isaac Asimov — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Martian by Andy Weir — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF