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

Event

David Lynn Golemon · 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
❤️

Formic Wars: Burning Earth

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston

Alien InvasionFirst ContactSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
❤️

Fear the Survivors

Stephen Moss · 341 pages

While alien Agents stalk the earth, a team of exhausted scientists and military outcasts struggle to fight them amongst a planet on the brink. The brink of plague, the brink of war, and the brink of an invasion larger than they can possibly imagine.

Alien InvasionFirst ContactScience FictionSoldiers and Warfare
❤️

Invasion

Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant · 321 pages

Alien InvasionFirst ContactScience FictionEnsemble Cast
❤️

Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 319 pages

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o

Alien InvasionFirst ContactFast-PacedSoldiers and Warfare
❤️

Annihilation, Book One

Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Keith Giffen · 256 pages

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareEnsemble CastScience Fiction
❤️

Vector Prime

R.A. Salvatore · 398 pages

Alien InvasionEnsemble CastSoldiers and WarfareScience Fiction
❤️

Out of the Black

Evan Currie · 440 pages

Deep in blackest space, the Drasin have watched humanity's journey to the stars - and determined that a species as barbaric as ours has no place in the cosmos. The wreckage of the starship Odyssey, once Earth's greatest guardian, lies strewn across New York City. Abandoned by all but its captain, Odyssey's sacrifice covered the withdrawal of countless troops as the Drasin assault ravaged the plane

Alien InvasionFirst ContactSoldiers and WarfareFast-Paced
❤️

Ark Royal

Christopher G. Nuttall · 380 pages

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareEnsemble CastScience Fiction
❤️

The Mercy of Gods

James S. A. Corey · 366 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself. ★ “Masterful . . . . This is space opera at its best.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The start of something truly epic." ― Fonda Lee, author of Jade City How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in th

Alien InvasionFirst ContactEnsemble CastScience Fiction
❤️

Dreamcatcher

Stephen King · 870 pages

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But wh

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareEnsemble CastScience Fiction
❤️

Supercarrier

Scott Bartlett · 454 pages

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionEnsemble Cast
❤️

Sphere

Michael Crichton · 384 pages

A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old

First ContactAlien InvasionEnsemble CastScience Fiction
❤️

The Attack

Katherine Applegate · 145 pages

The Animorphs have met the Ellimist. He "helped" to save the kids when they were about to be eaten by a Taxxon. He "helped" to free two Hork-Bajir and restored Tobias's morphing ability. But, even though the Ellimist has enormous power, he is not all-powerful. He has an enemy. The Crayak. So, the Crayak and the Ellimist decide that a battle will prove their ultimate power. But they don't intend

Alien InvasionScience FictionEnsemble CastSoldiers and Warfare
❤️

Plague of the Dead

Z.A. Recht · 308 pages

Soldiers and WarfareEnsemble CastFast-PacedScience Fiction
❤️

All You Need Is Kill

Ryosuke Takeuchi · 550 pages

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionFast-Paced
🙂

Extinction Machine

Jonathan Maberry · 448 pages

The President of the United States vanishes from the White House. A top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. Witnesses on the ground say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds. All over the world reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate. And in a remote fossil dig in China dinosaur hunters have found someth

First ContactSoldiers and WarfareFast-PacedThriller
🙂

The Exiled Fleet

J.S. Dewes · 432 pages

Alien InvasionFirst ContactSoldiers and WarfareFast-Paced
🙂

Footfall

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle · 551 pages

The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.

Alien InvasionFirst ContactSoldiers and WarfareEnsemble Cast
🙂

Caliban's War

James S.A. Corey · 608 pages

The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series. We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a

First ContactEnsemble CastScience FictionFast-Paced
🙂

Into the Looking Glass

John Ringo · 400 pages

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareFast-PacedScience Fiction
🙂

The Darkness

W.J. Lundy · 246 pages

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareScience FictionFast-Paced
🙂
Alien InvasionFast-PacedEnsemble CastScience Fiction
🙂

Terms of Enlistment

Marko Kloos · 334 pages

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed priv

Alien InvasionSoldiers and WarfareFast-PacedScience Fiction
🙂

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams · 215 pages

This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication—with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly af

Alien InvasionFirst ContactEnsemble CastScience Fiction

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.