Books like Ready Player One

If you liked Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Death Cure

    James Dashner · 2011 · The Maze Runner #3

    Because shares tags: dystopia, science fiction, adventure.

    Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.

  2. The Host

    Stephenie Meyer · 2008 · The Host #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia, adventure.

    Stephenie Meyer imagines Earth settled by Souls, where Wanderer wakes inside Melanie Stryder and hears her voice refuse to fade, sparking a…

  3. The Testaments

    Margaret Atwood · 2019 · The Handmaid's Tale #2

    Because shares tags: dystopia, science fiction.

    Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.

  4. I Am Number Four

    Pittacus Lore · 2010 · Lorien Legacies #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, adventure.

    Alien teen Four hides in Ohio and develops Legacies with Sam and Sarah.

  5. The 5th Wave

    Rick Yancey · 2013 · The 5th Wave #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia.

    Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.

  6. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Philip K. Dick · 1968

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia.

    Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.

  7. Delirium

    Lauren Oliver · 2011 · Delirium #1

    Because shares tags: dystopia, science fiction.

    In a America where love is treated as disease, Lena Haloway counts down to her Cure until she meets Alex in Portland.

  8. The Time Machine

    H.G. Wells · 1895

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia.

    Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

  9. The Scorch Trials

    James Dashner · 2010 · The Maze Runner #2

    Because shares tags: dystopia, science fiction.

    Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.

  10. Station Eleven

    Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

    Because shares tags: dystopia, science fiction.

    After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.

  11. Red Rising

    Pierce Brown · 2014 · Red Rising Saga #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopia.

    Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he…

  12. Legend

    Marie Lu · 2011 · Legend #1

    Because shares tags: dystopia, science fiction.

    Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.

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