yeah, well, me the fuck too!
I learned HTML about it! Here you will find my hand-picked selection of TLT readalikes. Questions I asked myself while compiling this list: Is it gay? Is it gross? Is it Catholic? and most importantly Does it make me feel like a rat with cheese? Not every book can check every box, of course, but every book included here is one I have read or intend to read. (I've also added an extra checkmark for those I personally recommend.) All are, at minimum, genre fiction -- that is, science fiction, fantasy, or horror -- and most are pretty dark. Under the column titled "LINK", you can find a description of the premise, my personal thoughts (on books I've read), and links to goodreads and storygraph.
| TITLE: | AUTHOR: | READ?: | REC?: | GAY: | WEIRD/GROSS?: | RELIGION/IMPERIALISM?: | FUNNY?: | BRAINROT?: | LINK: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animorphs | KA Applegate | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| "Pluto Shits on the Universe" | Fatimah Asghar | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Foundryside | Robert Jackson Bennett | X | X | X? | X | ||||
| The Enterprise of Death | Jesse Bullington | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| The Archive Undying | Emma Mieko Candon | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| The Unbroken | CL Clark | X | ? | X | X | ||||
| The Traitor Baru Cormorant | Seth Dickinson | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| The Drowning City | Amanda Downum | X | X | X | |||||
| This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Leech | Hiron Ennes | X? | X | X | |||||
| Black Sun Rising | CS Friedman | X? | X | X | |||||
| Three Parts Dead | Max Gladstone | X | X | X | X | ||||
| The Library at Mount Char | Scott Hawkin | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| The Stars Are Legion | Kameron Hurley | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| The Twelve-Fingered Boy | John Hornor Jacobs | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Archivist Wasp | Nicole Kornher-Stace | X | X | ||||||
| The Unspoken Name | AK Larkwood | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Nine Fox Gambit | Yoon Ha Lee | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Leguin | X | X | X | X | ||||
| A Memory Called Empire | Arkady Martine | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Hold Me Closer, Necromancer | Lish McBride | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter Miller, Jr. | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan | X | X | ||||||
| Traitors of the Black Crown | Cate Pearce | X | X | ||||||
| Gormenghast | Mervyn Peake | X | X | ||||||
| The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | X | X | X | X | ||||
| The Dawnhounds | Sascha Stronach | X | X | X | ? | X | |||
| Seven Blades in Black | Sam Sykes | X | X | X? | X | ||||
| The Jasmine Throne | Tasha Suri | X | X | ||||||
| Creatures of Will and Temper | Molly Tanzer | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Vermilion | Molly Tanzer | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesch | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| "The Last Flight of Doctor Ain" | James Tiptree, Jr. | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Crier's War | Nina Varela | X | X? | X | |||||
| Murderbot | Martha Wells | X | X | X | X | ||||
| The Monstrumologist | Rick Yancey | X | X | X | X | X |