Read-alikes and related books

Books like Blues

Readers who finished Blues by John Hersey and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Hunting & Fishing, Fishing, Sports & Outdoors, and Politics & Social Sciences.

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Top related books to Blues

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Blues.

Fishing and Shooting Sketches — Grover Cleveland

Fishing and Shooting Sketches

Grover Cleveland

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Red Palmer A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing — Tayler James

Red Palmer A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Golden Days: From The Fishing Log Of A Painter In Brittany (1919) — Romilly Fedden

Golden Days: From The Fishing Log Of A Painter In Brittany (1919)

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Art of Fishing A Poem — T. W. Charleton

The Art of Fishing A Poem

T. W. Charleton

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Superior Fishing, Or, The Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States Embracing Full — Roosevelt Robert Barnwell

Superior Fishing, Or, The Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States Embracing Full

Roosevelt Robert Barnwell

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Northern Angler — John Kirkbride

The Northern Angler

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Fisherman’s Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things — Henry Van Dyke

Fisherman’s Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed — William Scrope

Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

British Angling Flies (1862) — Michael Theakston

British Angling Flies (1862)

Michael Theakston

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Hunting And Fishing In Florida: Including A Key To The Water Birds Known To Occur In The State (1895) — Charles Barney Cory

Hunting And Fishing In Florida: Including A Key To The Water Birds Known To Occur In The State (1895)

Charles Barney Cory

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Edible Fishes Of New South Wales: Their Present Importance And Their Potentialities (1908) — David George Stead

The Edible Fishes Of New South Wales: Their Present Importance And Their Potentialities (1908)

David George Stead

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Compleat Angler 1653-1676 (Oxford English Texts) — Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler 1653-1676 (Oxford English Texts)

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Home Fishing and Home Waters. A Practical Treatise on Fish Culture — Green Seth

Home Fishing and Home Waters. A Practical Treatise on Fish Culture

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

A Treatise Of Fishing With An Angle (1880) — Juliana Berners

A Treatise Of Fishing With An Angle (1880)

Juliana Berners

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Angling Literature in England And Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients; With a Notice of Some Books On Other Piscatorial Subjects — Osmund Lambert

Angling Literature in England And Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients; With a Notice of Some Books On Other Piscatorial Subjects

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Call of the Surf — Van Campen Heilner

The Call of the Surf

Van Campen Heilner

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Fishing And Shooting (1902) — Sydney Buxton

Fishing And Shooting (1902)

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Pleasures of Angling With Rod and Reel for Trout and Salmon — George Dawson

Pleasures of Angling With Rod and Reel for Trout and Salmon

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Tent Dwellers — Albert Bigelow Paine

The Tent Dwellers

Albert Bigelow Paine

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Restigouche and Its Salmon Fishing Fishing in Canadian Waters — Dean Sage

The Restigouche and Its Salmon Fishing Fishing in Canadian Waters

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

A History of Fly Fishing for Trout — John Waller Hills

A History of Fly Fishing for Trout

John Waller Hills

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

A Visit To Izaak Walton An Angler’s Dream — Thomas Crumplen

A Visit To Izaak Walton An Angler’s Dream

Thomas Crumplen

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

Saguache County Colorado Fishing & Floating Guide Book Part 3 Complete Fishing and Floating Information for Saguache County Colorado Part 2 from Saguache Creeks to Willow Creek Lake — JIM. MACCRACKEN

Saguache County Colorado Fishing & Floating Guide Book Part 3 Complete Fishing and Floating Information for Saguache County Colorado Part 2 from Saguache Creeks to Willow Creek Lake

JIM. MACCRACKEN

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The Angler And His Friend Or Piscatory Colloquies And Fishing Excursions — John Davy

The Angler And His Friend Or Piscatory Colloquies And Fishing Excursions

Themes: Hunting & Fishing • Fishing • Sports & Outdoors

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Hunting & Fishing, Fishing, Sports & Outdoors — the same threads that run through Blues by John Hersey. Among the authors featured: Grover Cleveland, Tayler James, Romilly Fedden, T. W. Charleton, and others.

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