14 Top adult books like Big Red by Jerome Charyn

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Big Red

By: Jerome Charyn

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Apple Books • Best Books of the Month A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection Narrated by a sta…

If you liked the adult plot in Big Red by Jerome Charyn , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Extraordinary Adventures

By: Daniel Wallace

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He li… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Wallace's Extraordinary Adventures book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell

2. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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3. The Golden Gate

By: Amy Chua

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more

Similar categories in Amy Chua's The Golden Gate book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Honey Drop Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery, #26) by Laura Childs

4. Honey Drop Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery, #26)

By: Laura Childs

3.91

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

The murder of a political bigwig at a Honey Bee Tea sends Theodosia Browning buzzing for answers in… read more

Similar categories in Laura Childs's Honey Drop Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery, #26) book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • fiction
Cover of Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt

5. Daughters of Nantucket

By: Julie Gerstenblatt

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three co… read more

Similar categories in Julie Gerstenblatt's Daughters of Nantucket book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes, you need tragedy to remind you of one of life's most important questions: what would you take from your home in a fire?"

-Julie Gerstenblatt, Daughters of Nantucket

"This is life we are speaking of, not a poem by Tennyson, and not one of Grimm's fables. Life is dangerous and - as we have just witnessed - it can change in an instant. An existence in which a true, …"

-Julie Gerstenblatt, Daughters of Nantucket

Cover of Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) by Armistead Maupin

6. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)

By: Armistead Maupin

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more

Similar categories in Armistead Maupin's Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10) book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell

8. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

By: Gareth Russell

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Russell's The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
Cover of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson by Mark  Griffin

9. All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson

By: Mark Griffin

3.74

Format: 512 pages, ebook

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misu… read more

Similar categories in Mark Griffin's All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
Cover of Nina Simone's Gum by Warren  Ellis

10. Nina Simone's Gum

By: Warren Ellis

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more

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11. Diva

By: Daisy Goodwin

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Goodwin's Diva book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Titanic Survivors Book Club

By: Timothy Schaffert

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Schaffert's The Titanic Survivors Book Club book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."

-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

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13. Strangers in the Night

By: Heather Webb

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, lov… read more

Similar categories in Heather Webb's Strangers in the Night book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Daphne book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

15. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Cover of Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1) by Conn Iggulden

16. Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

TYRANTS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE RAISED. ANCIENT ROME, AD 37 It begins with a man’s hand curled aro… read more

Similar categories in Conn Iggulden's Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1) book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

By: Owen Elliot-Kugell

3.96

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more

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18. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The House on Rye Lane: A gripping new literary thriller from the acclaimed author of THE SILENCE by Susan  Allott

19. The House on Rye Lane: A gripping new literary thriller from the acclaimed author of THE SILENCE

By: Susan Allott

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

They thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong. 2008. The house Maxine and Seb have… read more

Similar categories in Susan Allott's The House on Rye Lane: A gripping new literary thriller from the acclaimed author of THE SILENCE book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

"The lie folded itself into the history of the house. It was swallowed up gladly, pulled under, so she couldn't have taken it back if she'd wanted to."

-Susan Allott, The House on Rye Lane: A gripping new literary thriller from the acclaimed author of THE SILENCE

Cover of Dare to Know by James     Kennedy

20. Dare to Know

By: James Kennedy

2.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a wor… read more

Similar categories in James Kennedy's Dare to Know book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Northern Lady: A captivating and romantic Regency drama by Anna Jacobs

21. The Northern Lady: A captivating and romantic Regency drama

By: Anna Jacobs

4.23

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

She is determined to live the life she wants… Cassandra Trent does not like being told what to do. … read more

Similar categories in Anna Jacobs's The Northern Lady: A captivating and romantic Regency drama book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical fiction
Cover of Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles by Anne Tyler

22. Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles

By: Anne Tyler

3.95

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman. I’m just like you. Susanna has an inc… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • fiction
"The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman. I’m just like you, I say, I can see they don't believe me."

-Anne Tyler, Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles

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23. The Orchard

By: David Hopen

3.67

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are … read more

Similar categories in David Hopen's The Orchard book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins

24. Greek Myths: A New Retelling

By: Charlotte Higgins

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time in this beautifully pr… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Higgins's Greek Myths: A New Retelling book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Big Red by Jerome Charyn

25. Big Red

By: Jerome Charyn

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Apple Books • Best Books of the Month A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection Narrated by a sta… read more

Similar categories in Jerome Charyn's Big Red book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

26. Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

By: Tanya Boteju

3.78

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Perpetually awkward Nima Kumara-Clark is bored with her insular community of Bridgeton, in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Boteju's Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • fiction
"But I told myself if I could just get past my house and hammock without being sucked in by the guaranteed comfort, something else might be waiting for me on the other side, something that might color…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"With each passing moment, I’d get that feeling you sometimes have the moment you’re about to flip the final page of a really good book, when your anticipation for what happens next overwhelms you, bu…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

"As I said it, I immediately felt a twinge of desire for something else poking between my ribs, jabbing at the familiar emptiness. Like maybe, if I could change thing up somehow, I might be able to fi…"

-Tanya Boteju, Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens

Cover of Teddy by Emily Dunlay

27. Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lessons in Chemistry  meets  Mad Men  in this wildly entertaining debut novel, set in glamorous Rom… read more

Similar categories in Emily Dunlay's Teddy book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J.  West

28. The Betrayal of Thomas True

By: A.J. West

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the year 1710, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One … read more

Similar categories in A.J. West's The Betrayal of Thomas True book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

29. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and Jerome Charyn's Big Red

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country by Juliet Nicolson

30. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country

By: Juliet Nicolson

3.44

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more

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21 Top fiction books like Big Red by Jerome Charyn

Transform Your Habits

Extraordinary Adventures

Daniel Wallace

2.84

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Gate

Amy Chua

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Honey Drop Dead (A Tea Shop Mystery, #26)

Laura Childs

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Daughters of Nantucket

Julie Gerstenblatt

3.73

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19 Best fiction books like Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

Transform Your Habits

It's Not Like It's a Secret

Misa Sugiura

4.83

Transform Your Habits

Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling

Lucy Frank

3.41

Transform Your Habits

A Scatter of Light

Malinda Lo

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Bingo Love

Tee Franklin

3.93

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