Books like Storm Front (The Dresden Files), according to Reddit

The read-alike list

Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with Storm Front (The Dresden Files), normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.

#1

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson

A bridgeman slave carries spears through a warzone he's not allowed to fight in, until he decides to become the soldier no one will follow.

23 shared threads

#2

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.

19 shared threads

#3

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

A royal bastard trains as the king's poisoner and assassin, and readers fifteen books later still call the ending emotionally devastating.

16 shared threads

#4

Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson

A continent-spanning empire's mage-soldiers besiege a city that might already be doomed by gods playing a board game with human pieces.

29 shared threads

#5

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.

24 shared threads

#6

The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

A crippled torturer, a vain swordsman, and a berserker haunted by his own alter ego get pulled into a war none of them understand yet.

21 shared threads

#7

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Gods who crossed the ocean with their immigrant worshippers are going extinct in modern America, replaced by whatever people actually worship now.

16 shared threads

#8

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.

31 shared threads

#9

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.

17 shared threads

#10

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.

50 shared threads

#11

Red Rising

Pierce Brown

A low-caste miner surgically altered to pass as the ruling elite infiltrates the academy that killed his wife, planning to burn the system down from inside.

32 shared threads

#12

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.

53 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 Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson — 23 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss — 19 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb — 16 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson — 29 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan — 24 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie — 21 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 American Gods by Neil Gaiman — 16 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien — 31 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson — 17 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 50 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 Red Rising by Pierce Brown — 32 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Dune by Frank Herbert — 53 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF