Books like Six of Crows, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke

England forgets it ever had real magic, until one book-obsessed magician brings the practical kind back from decades of theory-only study.

3 shared threads

#2

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

A street thief who can swallow metal and burn it for power gets recruited into a heist crew whose actual target is the immortal emperor who's ruled for a thousand years.

3 shared threads

#3

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

A man alone in an endless house of statues and tides slowly realizes he used to have a different name.

3 shared threads

#4

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.

5 shared threads

#5

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A dying astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with amnesia, two corpses for company, and Earth's one shot at survival riding on him.

4 shared threads

#6

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.

5 shared threads

#7

Dune

Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides survives his family's massacre on a desert planet and becomes the messiah the empire engineered him to be, then has to live with it.

5 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

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.

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 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 The Martian by Andy Weir — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 Dune by Frank Herbert — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 5 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF