Books like “All You Need Is Kill”

What to read after “All You Need Is Kill” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Replay
Ken Grimwood · 1986
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
Jeff Winston dies in 1988 and wakes in 1963 in his eighteen-year-old body, with every memory of the years ahead intact. He lives that span over and over, each replay starting later, and slowly realises he is not the only one caught in the loop.
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card · 1985
Same genre: “Military science fiction”
- War Fiction
- Alien Invasion
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is taken from his family to a battle school in space, where gifted children are trained to command fleets against an alien enemy. Ender's talent lifts him above his classmates, but the games meant to shape him may cost everything he is.
3
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson · 2013
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
- War Fiction
Ursula Todd is born in 1910 and dies, then is born again in the same English house. Over many lives she survives accidents, war and bad choices, and begins to sense that her repetitions might be leading somewhere.
4
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North · 2014
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
Harry August dies and is born again in the same English country house in 1919, remembering everything. Each life draws him into a hidden network of people who live their years over and over, until another of their kind begins to unravel time itself and asks him to stop it.
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton · 2018
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
At Blackheath, Evelyn Hardcastle is shot dead at a party every night, and Aidan Bishop wakes each morning in a different guest's body with no memory of who he is. To escape, he must use each host to find the killer, while other players want the same thing.
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Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein · 1959
Same genre: “Military science fiction”
- War Fiction
- Alien Invasion
A young man joins the mobile infantry and is shaped into a soldier through brutal training and interstellar war. Told as his reflections on duty, citizenship and violence, the novel follows his rise from recruit to officer against an enemy unlike humanity.
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Vita Nostra
Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko · 2007
From the same world: “Time Loop”
- Time Loop
Sasha Samokhina fails her exams and is told to attend a remote institute instead. There the lessons are strange and punishing, and students are asked to do things that break the usual rules of the world. Obedience may unlock a terrifying kind of power.
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Old Man's War
John Scalzi · 2005
Same genre: “Military science fiction”
- War Fiction
At seventy-five, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, leaving Earth for a new body and a war among the stars. What begins as a chance at a second life becomes a fight to understand the colonies, the enemy and what he is fighting for.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman · 2020
Shared in the plot: alien, survive
- Alien Invasion
- Survival
When an alien corporation turns Earth into a lethal dungeon for an intergalactic reality show, Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, enter the levels. Carl's only plan is to survive the cameras, the monsters and the audience.
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu · 2008
Similar plot moves: “Alien Invasion”
- Alien Invasion
During the Cultural Revolution a secret military project sends signals into space, and an answer comes back. Decades later a scientist is pulled into a hidden struggle over how humanity should reply to an alien civilization facing its own collapse.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
During the German occupation of France, a blind girl and her father flee Paris for the walled city of Saint-Malo, carrying a valuable jewel. In Germany, an orphan with a gift for radio repairs is drawn into the war machine. Their separate paths move slowly toward the same besieged town in August 1944.
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Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie · 2013
Same genre: “Military science fiction”
A soldier who was once a starship's artificial intelligence wakes in a single human body. Cut off from her many selves, she crosses a collapsing empire to find the officer who destroyed everything she was, and to settle a debt of revenge.