AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Red Planet

Robert A. Heinlein · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

A Beautiful Friendship

David Weber · 384 pages

Stephanie Harrington always expected to be a forest ranger on her homeworld of Meyerdahl... until her parents relocated to the frontier planet of Sphinx in the distant Star Kingdom of Manticore. It should have been the perfect new home - a virgin wilderness full of new species of every sort, just waiting to be discovered. But Sphinx is a far more dangerous place than ultra-civilized Meyerdahl, and

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationAnimal CompanionScience Fiction
❤️

The White Dragon

Anne McCaffrey · 471 pages

On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, "dragons" help humans to fight a deadly Thread that falls from a neighbouring planet as it cycles past once every couple of hundred years. When dragons hatch, each gold (the Queen), bronze, blue or green dragon makes a telepathic connection with a child, and they beome inseparable.

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationAnimal CompanionScience Fiction
❤️

Treecat Wars

David Weber, Jane Lindskold · 388 pages

"Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seek to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans"--Provided by the publisher. Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seek to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans. The coauthor is Jane Lindskold. Book #3

Animal CompanionSpace ColonizationScience FictionTeen Protagonist
❤️

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness · 496 pages

An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets th

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionAdventure
❤️

Crisis on Doona

Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye · 409 pages

RETURN TO DOONA ... More than twenty-five years ago, the first Humans had set foot on Doona and had found a beautiful, unspoiled planet ... but they had also found that they were not alone there. Their early survey had completely ignored or missed the fact that the planet was already settled by the alien feline-like Hrrubans. The ensuing conflict led to the historic Decision at Doona—a socia

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionAdventure
🙂

The Sky People

S.M. Stirling · 304 pages

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionAdventure
🙂

Zoe's Tale

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators. When her biological father develops the technology to give the Obin consciousness and self-awareness, she suddenly becomes the center of a critical but endangered treaty between the Obin and the Colonial Union.

Space ColonizationAlien PlanetScience FictionTeen Protagonist
🙂

Mickey 7

Edward Ashton · 369 pages

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionFirst Contact
🙂

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Dennis E. Taylor · 322 pages

Space ColonizationAlien PlanetScience FictionAdventure
🙂

Pathfinder

Orson Scott Card · 592 pages

The book begins with Rigg, a boy that has the strange ability to see the path of any living being, no matter how long ago it existed. He spends his time hunting with his father in the mountains, trapping for valuable pelts. His father is his mentor, and so he has taught Rigg everything he knows. His father dies impaled by a tree, and the man's parting words were to find not Rigg's mother, but his

Space ColonizationAlien PlanetScience FictionAdventure
🙂

Starbreak

Phoebe North · 432 pages

After five hundred years, the Earth ship seventeen-year-old Terra and her companions were born and raised on arrives at Zehava, a dangerous, populated world where Terra must take the lead in establishing a new colony.

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionTeen Protagonist
🙂

Rider at the Gate

C.J. Cherryh · 437 pages

On a planet where all animal species are telepathic, a human rider selected to be bonded with his horse attempts to avenge the death of the rider he loved.

Space ColonizationAlien PlanetAnimal CompanionScience Fiction
🙂

Catseye

Andre Norton · 193 pages

Deported from his own planet in a galactic war, Troy Horay was permitted to hire out as a daily laborer on Korwar, where he had been relocated. Temporary work in a strange interplanetary pet shop led Troy to the realization that with certain animals, he could hold wordless communication. Why were these animals being brought to Korwar? (from the book's 1st page) Who was the controlling ag

Alien PlanetAnimal CompanionScience FictionAdventure
🙂

Shades of Earth

Beth Revis · 369 pages

Leaving the walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind, Amy and Elder are ready to build a home on Centauri-Earth. But they must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together.

Space ColonizationAlien PlanetScience FictionTeen Protagonist
🙂

The Keeper of the Isis Light

Monica Hughes · 160 pages

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionTeen Protagonist
🙂

Operation Bounce House

Matt Dinniman · 449 pages

A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig or two with his band, and keep his family’s aging fleet of intelligent

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionAdventure
🙂

Dark Life

Kat Falls · 297 pages

A thrilling futuristic adventure set deep undersea, *Dark Life* follows the settlers of the world's first subsea settlement as they defend their homesteads against a brazen band of outlaws. Set in an apocalyptic future where rising oceans have swallowed up entire regions and people live packed like sardines on the dry land left, *Dark Life* is the harrowing tale of underwater pioneers who have

Space ColonizationScience FictionTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

Marsbound

Joe Haldeman · 292 pages

A novel of the red planet from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth. Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime—they’re going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebe

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionTeen Protagonist
🙂
Alien PlanetScience FictionTeen ProtagonistAdventure
🙂

Reunion

Alan Dean Foster · 336 pages

The wait is over! At last, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimed Humanx universe, where a young human orphan called Flinx seeks to unlock the dangerous secrets of his past and the uncertain prospects of his future with the aid of the formidable minidrag known as Pip. Together, Flinx and Pip have roamed the galaxy on their quest for knowledge, finding friends a

Animal CompanionAlien PlanetScience FictionAdventure
🙂

The Fuzzy Papers

H. Beam Piper · 309 pages

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionFirst Contact
🙂

These Broken Stars

Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner · 381 pages

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more t

Alien PlanetScience FictionAdventureTeen Protagonist
🙂

Space Prison

Tom Godwin · 156 pages

Space ColonizationAlien PlanetScience FictionAdventure
🙂

Destiny's Road

Larry Niven · 433 pages

The book follows the life of Jemmy Bloocher, (who changes his name several times) as he travels the planet called Destiny, a colony founded over 200 years earlier. The "Road" is a long trail laid down by the founders. Only the Caravans travel the full length of the road as they bring (or sell) "speckles" to settlers who, without them, would suffer severe potassium deficiency leading to brain dam

Alien PlanetSpace ColonizationScience FictionAdventure

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.