Read-alikes
Books like Red Rising, according to Reddit
Not an algorithm's guess and not an editor's opinion: these are the books Redditors bring up in the same discussions as Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It appears in 717 indexed threads — the overlap below happens mostly in r/printSF.
The read-alike list
Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with Red Rising, normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#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.
#6 Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A high-school teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there and one job left: save Earth.
#7 The Martian
Andy Weir
A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.
#8 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.
#9 Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
A detective investigating a missing-persons case on an asteroid and a scavenger spaceship crew are chasing the same conspiracy without knowing it yet.
#10 The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
A woman searches a dying continent for the daughter her husband stole, while the world ends again on schedule.
#11 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
A ragtag crew takes a multi-year tunneling job to punch a wormhole through space and mostly just has to get along with each other for the ride.
#12 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.
The overlap, in numbers
Where each pairing actually shows up. Click through for the full Reddit verdict on each book.
- #1 Dune by Frank Herbert — 309 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #2 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 266 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #3 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 192 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #4 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 289 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #5 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 245 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #6 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 153 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #7 The Martian by Andy Weir — 161 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #8 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin — 174 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #9 Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey — 91 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #10 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin — 117 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #11 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers — 127 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #12 Foundation by Isaac Asimov — 120 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
Books like Red Rising — frequently asked
What do Redditors read after Red Rising?+
The books most often brought up in the same discussions as Red Rising are: Dune by Frank Herbert; All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells; Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. This ranking counts 2244 shared thread appearances across 717 threads — it reflects what commenters actually pair together, not editorial picks.
How is this list ranked?+
We scan Reddit comments for book mentions and count how often two titles appear in the same thread. Books that keep showing up alongside Red Rising — mostly in r/printSF — rank higher. A minimum of 3 shared threads is required, so one viral thread can't fabricate a match.