Read-alikes
Books like The Lies of Locke Lamora, 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 The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. It appears in 76 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 The Lies of Locke Lamora, normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.
#1 The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
Nine-Fingers the barbarian just wants to survive one more winter, but a torturer's investigation and a prince's war have other plans.
#2 The Black Company
Glen Cook
A mercenary company's own physician keeps its journal through the Vietnam War on peyote, one contract and one dead wizard-lord at a time.
#3 Storm Front (The Dresden Files)
Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only wizard listed in the phone book, takes a double-murder case that ordinary police work can't touch.
#4 The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
A burglar with no interest in adventure gets talked into robbing a dragon by a wizard who never quite explains the plan.
#5 Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
A bastard prince trained as an assassin narrates sixteen books of loss, loyalty, and one very long grudge against fate.
#6 Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
A retired warrior with a ruined face and a new baby reunites his aging mercenary band for one last impossible job.
#7 The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
A farm boy's village burns in one night, and the Aes Sedai who saves him says the Dark One marked him before he could walk.
#8 The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison
An exiled half-goblin prince inherits a throne he never wanted after an airship 'accident' kills his father and half-brothers.
#9 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.
#10 The Once and Future King
T. H. White
A boy called Wart is tutored by a shape-shifting wizard for a throne he doesn't know is coming, and the joke turns tragic by the final book.
#11 Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
A street thief gets recruited into a heist crew plotting to overthrow a god-emperor who has ruled unchallenged for a thousand years.
#12 A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
A direwolf litter found beside a dead stag opens a decades-spanning war for the Iron Throne with no guaranteed survivors.
The overlap, in numbers
Where each pairing actually shows up. Click through for the full Reddit verdict on each book.
- #1 The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie — 27 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #2 The Black Company by Glen Cook — 10 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #3 Storm Front (The Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher — 9 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #4 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien — 9 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #5 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #6 Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames — 3 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #7 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan — 11 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #8 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison — 7 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #9 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 21 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #10 The Once and Future King by T. H. White — 4 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #11 Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson — 8 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
- #12 A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin — 9 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
Books like The Lies of Locke Lamora — frequently asked
What do Redditors read after The Lies of Locke Lamora?+
The books most often brought up in the same discussions as The Lies of Locke Lamora are: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie; The Black Company by Glen Cook; Storm Front (The Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher. This ranking counts 125 shared thread appearances across 76 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 The Lies of Locke Lamora — mostly in r/printSF — rank higher. A minimum of 3 shared threads is required, so one viral thread can't fabricate a match.