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What to read after Project Hail Mary
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items You finished Project Hail Mary at 2am and didn't know what to do with yourself. These books will do the same thing. Lone heroes solving impossible problems, science that actually makes you feel something, and stories that make the universe feel both ...
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More And Weir Book
The Bobivers
The Three Body Problem Series
Hitchhiker's Guide Series
Other great reads to consider
More And Weir Book
If Project Hail Mary is what brought me to this list, Andy Weir has more where that came from. The same brilliant scientific detail, the same impossible odds, the same ability to make me laugh and break my heart at the same time. Every book in this s...
I've already read it — and I'm reading it again. The first time I was racing to find out what happens. The second time I actually feel everything — the loneliness, the discovery, the friendship. Project Hail Mary is a better book on my second read an...
Read it again: Project Hail Mary
Before Project Hail Mary there was The Martian — and this is where my love for Andy Weir started. Mark Watney is stranded alone on Mars with no rescue coming and somehow made me laugh out loud while doing it. Same DNA as Hail Mary — one brilliant per...
The Martian | Paperback
Weir's most underrated book and one I almost slept on myself. Jazz Bashara lives on the Moon, smuggles cargo, and accidentally gets caught up in a conspiracy that could destroy humanity's only lunar city. Grittier and faster than his other work — I g...
Artemis|Paperback
The Bobivers
What if I died, woke up as an AI inside a space probe, and then made copies of myself to explore the galaxy? Dennis E. Taylor answers that question across four books that made me laugh out loud, think deeply, and stay up way too late. The Bobiverse i...
Bob Johansson just bought life insurance and died the same day — and I was hooked from that first line. He wakes up a century later as an AI inside a space probe with one mission — find humanity a new home. Funny, smart, and surprisingly philosophica...
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse Series #1)|Hardcover
The Bobs are multiplying — and I found myself caring deeply about clones of the same person, which tells you everything about how good Dennis Taylor is. Multiple copies of Bob scattered across the galaxy, each developing their own personality, each f...
For We Are Many (Bobiverse Series #2)|Hardcover
Everything the first two Bobiverse books built toward pays off here — and I felt it. The Bobs have found new planets, made alien contact, and now face an existential threat that could end humanity for good. The kind of finale that made me want to sta...
All These Worlds (Bobiverse Series #3)|Hardcover
Bob goes looking for a missing copy of himself and finds something far bigger — and I went with him every step of the way. The most ambitious book in the series, with a fully realized alien civilization and a mystery that spans the galaxy. The deepes...
Heaven's River (Bobiverse Series #4)|Hardcover
The Three Body Problem Series
The Three Body Problem broke my brain in a way no book has since Project Hail Mary — and I mean that as the highest compliment. Liu Cixin thinks on a scale that made me feel genuinely small in the best possible way. This is the series I recommend to ...
I went in knowing nothing and came out a different reader. A Chinese physicist, a secret military project, and a civilization that has been watching us for centuries — Liu Cixin builds this world slowly and then pulls the floor out from under me comp...
The Three-Body Problem (Three-Body Problem Series #1) |Paperback
The second book is where this series became one of the most important things I've ever read. Liu Cixin introduces the Dark Forest theory — a single idea about why the universe is silent — and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. The k...
The Dark Forest (Three-Body Problem Series #2)|Paperback
Liu Cixin ends this series on a scale so enormous I had to put the book down and sit with it. Death's End spans billions of years, explores dimensions I couldn't visualize, and asks questions about humanity that I'm still turning over in my head. The...
Death's End (Three-Body Problem Series #3)|Paperback
Hitchhiker's Guide Series
Douglas Adams asked the biggest questions in the universe and answered them with the funniest possible jokes — and I've never fully recovered from that. Five books that made me laugh, made me think, and made me genuinely sad when they were over. I co...
42. If you know you know. The Hitchhiker's Guide is the book that proved to me that science fiction can be hilarious, profound, and completely absurd all at the same time. I read it after Hail Mary and it scratched the same itch in a completely diffe...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #1)|Paperback
The second Hitchhiker's book and the one where Adams really hit his stride. Milliways — the Restaurant at the End of the Universe — is one of the most creative concepts I've encountered in any book. I read this back to back with the first and I'd do ...
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #2)|Paperback
Arthur Dent ends up in a cricket match that threatens the entire universe. Only Douglas Adams could make that sentence make perfect sense. I laughed out loud more reading this than almost anything else I've picked up.
Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #3)|Paperback
The most unexpectedly tender book in the series. Adams slows down, gets personal, and somehow makes a love story feel right at home in the middle of the universe ending. The one that surprised me most.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #4)|Paperback
The darkest and strangest entry in the series — Adams was in a difficult place when he wrote this and it shows. I read it because I needed to finish the journey and I'm glad I did. Not what I expected and completely unforgettable."
Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #5)|Paperback
Other great reads to consider
One sitting. I read Dark Matter in one sitting. A physicist, a stolen life, and quantum mechanics used as a thriller device in a way I've never seen done before. Blake Crouch broke my brain with this one and I've been recommending it ever since.
Dark Matter
Flowers for Algernon is the loneliest book I've ever read — and I mean that as the highest compliment. Charlie Gordon undergoes an experiment to make him a genius and I watched every stage of that transformation feeling both hopeful and heartbroken a...
Flowers for Algernon|Paperback
Different tone than everything else on this list — quieter, more personal, no spaceships. But The Midnight Library asks the same kind of big questions that Project Hail Mary does, just from the inside out. What does it mean to have lived the right li...
The Midnight Library |Paperback