Books like Slaughterhouse-Five, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

A fireman whose job is burning books starts wondering what's actually in the ones he's paid to destroy.

53 shared threads · praised

#2

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

A man with a low IQ undergoes surgery that turns him into a genius, and has to watch the intelligence, and everyone's honesty, fade back out.

66 shared threads · praised

#3

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

In a future where babies are grown in bottles and unhappiness gets treated with a pill, one man refuses to take his soma.

54 shared threads · praised

#4

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.

74 shared threads · praised

#5

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon colony travels to the wealthy world that exiled his people, carrying a theory that could reunite them or arm their enemies.

96 shared threads · mixed

#6

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

A minor bureaucrat rewrites history for a living until the Party decides his private thoughts are the real problem.

46 shared threads · praised

#7

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

An envoy is sent alone to a planet where everyone is genderless most of the month, and he has to unlearn who he assumes is in charge.

98 shared threads · praised

#8

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Three friends raised at an English boarding school slowly learn what their lives are actually for.

40 shared threads · praised

#9

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.

121 shared threads · mixed

#10

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A burned-out hacker banned from cyberspace takes one last job to breach the AI that might already own a piece of him.

81 shared threads · praised

#11

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.

77 shared threads · praised

#12

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.

107 shared threads · mixed

The overlap, in numbers

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

1. #1 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — 53 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes — 66 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley — 54 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams — 74 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 96 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell — 46 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 98 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro — 40 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 121 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 81 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 77 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Dune by Frank Herbert — 107 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF