Books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

If you liked Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The War of the Worlds

    H.G. Wells · 1898

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, adventure.

    A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.

  2. Around the World in Eighty Days

    Jules Verne · 1873

    Because also by Jules Verne; shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Fogg bets half his fortune to circle the globe in eighty days with one bag and a valet.

  3. Starship Troopers

    Robert A. Heinlein · 1959

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

    Rico earns citizenship through Mobile Infantry drops against Bugs.

  4. Life, the Universe and Everything

    Douglas Adams · 1982 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #3

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

    Arthur in slippers must stop cricket robots from rebuilding the Wikkit Gate.

  5. Kindred

    Octavia E. Butler · 1979

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

    Dana pulled from 1976 to slave Maryland must save Rufus who owns her kin.

  6. Morning Star

    Pierce Brown · 2016 · Red Rising Saga #3

    Because shares tags: science fiction, adventure.

    Broken in a box by the Jackal, Darrow rises with Howlers to open Mars mines to sky.

  7. Hyperion

    Dan Simmons · 1989 · Hyperion Cantos #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

    Seven pilgrims cross Hyperion telling tales of faith, war, and time while the Shrike waits at the Tombs.

  8. Breakfast of Champions

    Kurt Vonnegut · 1973

    Because shares tags: classics, science fiction.

    A Pontiac dealer breaks down while a broke sci-fi writer brings the book that tells him others are robots.

  9. All Systems Red

    Martha Wells · 2017 · The Murderbot Diaries #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, adventure.

    A self aware security robot just wants soap operas, but its survey team keeps walking into corporate murder.

  10. The Silver Chair

    C. S. Lewis · 1953 · Chronicles of Narnia #4

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.

  11. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

    Douglas Adams · 1980 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #2

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

    Arthur Dent flees Vogons, dines at Milliways at the end of time, and strands on prehistoric Earth in Adams' sharp 1980 sequel.

  12. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster · 1961

    Because shares tags: classics, adventure.

    A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.

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