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Books like Being Red

Explore 24 books like Being Red by Howard Fast — a handpicked selection united by Communists and AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY.

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Top related books to Being Red

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Being Red.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Christopher Hitchens

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

Edith Wharton

Hermione Lee

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street

Paul S. Powers

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

Michael Chabon

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

My Ears Are Bent

Joseph Mitchell

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Claire Tomalin

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

What’s to Become of the Boy — Heinrich Boll

Heinrich Böll

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

Confessions of an English Opium-eater And Selected Essays

Thomas De Quincey

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

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All in Good Time: A Memoir

Jonathan Schwartz

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#11

Conor, Volume I: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien: Volume I, Narrative

Donald Akenson

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#12

Catherine Carswell: A Biography

Jan Pilditch

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#13

Modern American Memoirs

Annie Dillard

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#14

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

William H. Gass

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#15

Somerset Maugham: A Life

Jeffrey Meyers

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#16

Writers and Their Notebooks

Diana Raab

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#17

Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

Sue Monk Kidd

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#18

James Lees-Milne: The Life

Michael Bloch

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#19

Thomas Hardy: A Biography (Life &Times)

Dolin-tim

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#20

The waves behind us: A memoir

Benedict Kiely

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#21

Life Of Henry David Thoreau

Henry Salt

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#22

Mao Tse-tung

Stuart Reynolds Schram

Themes: Communists

#23

Can You Tolerate This?: Essays

Ashleigh Young

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

#24

The ingenuity gap facing the economic, environmental, and other challenges of an increasingly complex and unpredictable world

Thomas F. Homer-Dixon

Themes: AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Communists, AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY — the same threads that run through Being Red by Howard Fast. Among the authors featured: Christopher Hitchens, Hermione Lee, Paul S. Powers, Michael Chabon, and others.