Books like your favorites
Pick a book you loved for a hand-picked list of similar reads, or ask Bookworm for picks tailored to you.
Fantasy
Books like Harry Potter
Harry Potter pairs a lonely young hero with a hidden world and a school full of friends and rivals.Books like The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles retells the Trojan War through Patroclus and his bond with Achilles, in lyrical prose.Books like The Night Circus
The Night Circus is a lush, atmospheric fantasy about a mysterious circus that opens only at night.Books like The Hobbit
The Hobbit is a light-hearted adventure about an unlikely hero who joins a quest.Books like Fourth Wing
Fourth Wing sends a frail young woman to a war college where cadets must bond with a dragon or die trying.Books like Circe
Circe gives the witch of the Odyssey her own story, following a Titan's daughter from the halls of the gods to exile on an island.Books like A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses, often called ACOTAR, follows a young huntress taken to a land of faeries who falls for her captor.Books like The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind has a legendary wizard, now an innkeeper, tell the story of his youth, from a traveling troupe to a university of magic.
Science fiction
Books like The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games puts a young narrator inside a harsh society with high stakes from the first chapter.Books like Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary sends a lone scientist and a spaceship on a mission to save Earth, built on science and ingenuity.Books like The Martian
The Martian leaves an astronaut stranded alone on Mars, solving each problem with science and jokes.Books like Dune
Dune pairs a young heir with a desert planet, rival noble houses and a precious resource in a rich, political epic.Books like Ready Player One
Ready Player One sends a teenager on a hunt through a vast virtual world, in a bleak future where the puzzles come from old pop culture.
Romance
Books like Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a witty novel of manners about love, money and first impressions among the English gentry.Books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has an aging Hollywood icon tell her glamorous, scandalous life story to an unknown journalist.Books like The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars follows two teenagers who fall in love after meeting at a cancer support group.Books like It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us follows Lily Bloom, a florist in Boston who falls for a charming neurosurgeon while a first love from her past re-enters her life.Books like Normal People
Normal People follows Connell and Marianne, two teenagers from the same small Irish town whose bond survives school, university and years of drifting apart.
Thrillers and mysteries
Books like Gone Girl
Gone Girl follows a husband under suspicion after his wife vanishes on their anniversary, told in two alternating voices.Books like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo pairs a disgraced journalist with a brilliant hacker to investigate a decades-old disappearance.Books like The Silent Patient
The Silent Patient follows a painter who shoots her husband and then never speaks again, and the psychotherapist determined to make her talk.Books like Rebecca
Rebecca follows a shy young bride who moves into her husband's grand estate, Manderley, where the memory of his first wife still dominates the house.Books like The Housemaid
The Housemaid follows a young live-in housekeeper in a wealthy couple's beautiful home, where nothing is quite as perfect as it looks.
Historical fiction
Books like Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry follows Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist in the early 1960s who ends up hosting a TV cooking show.Books like The Book Thief
The Book Thief follows Liesel Meminger, a foster child who learns to read and steals books in a small German town during World War II, with Death as the narrator.Books like The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner follows Amir, a wealthy boy in Kabul whose friendship with a servant's son is broken by a betrayal that haunts him for years.
Contemporary and classic fiction
Books like Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing follows a girl who grows up alone in a North Carolina marsh, with a murder mystery running through it.Books like A Man Called Ove
A Man Called Ove is about a grumpy man whose quiet routine is upended when a lively family moves in next door.Books like The Midnight Library
The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed to a library between life and death, where every book is a different life she could have lived.Books like Little Women
Little Women follows the four March sisters growing up in Massachusetts during the Civil War, with Jo dreaming of becoming a writer.Books like The Alchemist
The Alchemist follows Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd who sets out for Egypt after a recurring dream of treasure at the Pyramids.
Nobel Prize winners
Books like Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies, by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding, follows a group of boys stranded on an island with no adults.Books like One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, follows several generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo.Books like Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go, by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, looks back on a childhood at an English boarding school and the friendships formed there.Books like Beloved
Beloved, by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, is a haunting novel about a formerly enslaved woman and her family in Ohio after the Civil War.Books like The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea, by Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, tells of an aging Cuban fisherman who heads far out alone and hooks a giant fish.Books like Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men, by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck, follows two migrant farm workers in 1930s California who share a dream of a small farm of their own.Books like The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian, by Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang, follows a South Korean woman whose decision to stop eating meat unsettles her family and her marriage.