Books like Pride and Prejudice, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

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

#2

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Two retired Texas Rangers drive a stolen cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana, and half of them don't make it back.

3 shared threads

#3

Shōgun

James Clavell

A shipwrecked English pilot washes up in feudal Japan and gets pulled between warlords, Jesuit priests, and Spanish traders, and has to pick a side to survive.

3 shared threads

#4

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

A falsely imprisoned sailor spends fourteen years in a fortress, learns of a hidden fortune, and returns to make sure everyone who wronged him pays for it.

3 shared threads

#5

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Ned Stark's family gets pulled into a succession war for the Iron Throne while an unkillable winter creeps south.

5 shared threads

#6

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.

3 shared threads

#7

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time, bouncing between a WWII POW camp, a Tralfamadorian zoo, and his own suburban optometry practice, all at once.

4 shared threads

#8

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

A legendary hero narrates his own rise from orphaned street kid to feared arcanist over three days, except Rothfuss never wrote day three.

3 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.

7 shared threads

#10

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to the capitalist planet his people fled, carrying a theory of time that could unite both worlds or arm one of them.

6 shared threads

#11

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.

3 shared threads

#12

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.

4 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 Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Shōgun by James Clavell — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 6 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF