Read-alikes and related books

Books like Bad Dad

Readers who finished Bad Dad by David Walliams and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Blended Families, Pirates, New Baby, and Law & Crime.

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Top related books to Bad Dad

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Finding Bear

Hannah Gold

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

Spy Guy The Not-so-secret Agent

Jessica E. Young

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • Boys & Men

The Door at the End of the World

Caroline Carlson

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library

Eth Clifford

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

Framed

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

The Moffats

Eleanor Estes

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • Boys & Men

The Missing Pairs

Yvonne Ivinson

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

Magic’s Most Wanted

Tyler Whitesides

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Survival Stories

The Crims at Sea

Kate Davies

Themes: Pirates • Law & Crime • Boys & Men

#10

The Ice Monster

David Walliams

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

#11

All about Sam

Lois Lowry

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#12

The Superteacher Project

Gordon Korman

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#13

Mary Poppins Collection

Pamela Lyndon Travers

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#14

A Voice in the Wind

Kathryn Lasky

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#15

The Princess Diaries Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight

Meg Cabot

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#16

Harriet Spies

Elana K. Arnold

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#17

The House in the Night

Susan Marie Swanson

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#18

Mr. Gedrick and Me

Patrick Carman

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Stories in Verse

#19

Return to Roar

Jenny McLachlan

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

#20

Class Action

Steven B Frank

Themes: Blended Families • Law & Crime • Boys & Men

#21

The Battle for Roar

Jenny McLachlan

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

#22

The Last Bear

Hannah Gold

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Survival Stories

#23

Hip, Hip … Beret! Touch-And-Feel Storybook

Melanie Ellsworth

Themes: Blended Families • Pirates • New Baby

#24

Flaming Arrows

William O. Steele

Themes: Pirates • Boys & Men • Survival Stories

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Bad Dad by David Walliams. Connected by Blended Families, Pirates, New Baby. Authors featured include Hannah Gold, Jessica E. Young, Caroline Carlson, Eth Clifford, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.