Books like The Three-Body Problem
If you liked The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Project Hail Mary
Because shares tags: science fiction, first contact, physics.
A teacher wakes alone on a ship with dead crewmates and must solve why the sun is dimming to save Earth.
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Scythe
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Citra and Rowan become apprentice scythes who must glean one another.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
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Brave New World
Because shares tags: science fiction, philosophy.
Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.
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War and Peace
Because shares tag: philosophy.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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The Trial
Because shares tag: philosophy.
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
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The Testaments
Because shares tag: science fiction.
Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.
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The Prince
Because shares tag: philosophy.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Name of the Rose
Because shares tag: philosophy.
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tag: philosophy.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Because shares tag: china.
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
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Saga, Volume 1
Because shares tag: science fiction.
Alana and Marko flee a galaxy-wide war with baby Hazel, hunted by both sides.
