Read-alikes and related books

Books like Everyman

24 books recommended for fans of Everyman by Philip Roth, tied together by themes of JEWS_FICTION, FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL, NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION, and AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR).

Top related books to Everyman

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

The Rise of David Levinsky

Abraham Cahan

Themes: JEWS_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Exit Ghost

Philip Roth

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

Sister Carrie: New York Public Library Collector’s Edition (New York Public Library Collector’s Editions)

Theodore Drieser

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

The Furies

Fernanda Eberstadt

Themes: JEWS_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

The Believers: A Novel — Zoe Heller

Zoë Heller

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

20th Century Ulysses

James Joyce

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

Rise and Shine: A Novel

Anna Quindlen

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION

Mrs Dalloway Reader

Virginia Woolf

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#10

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Colum McCann

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#11

Gilead: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#12

The Middlesteins

Jami Attenberg

Themes: JEWS_FICTION • FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL

#13

The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal

John Cheever

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#14

In a Perfect World: A Novel

Laura Kasischke

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#15

Girls in Their Married Bliss — Edna O’Brien

Edna O'Brien

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#16

Shadows on the Hudson

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Themes: JEWS_FICTION • NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION

#17

The Whole World Over: A Novel

Julia Glass

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#18

Wuthering Heights (Oxford World’s Classics Hardcovers)

Emily Brontë

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#19

A Carnivore’s Inquiry: A Novel

Sabina Murray

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#20

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco

Frank Norris

Themes: AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#21

Lipstick Jungle

Candace Bushnell

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#22

The Strange Case of Dr. Simmons and Dr. Glas

Dannie Abse

Themes: JEWS_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#23

Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger

Themes: NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

#24

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Themes: FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL • AMERICAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Everyman by Philip Roth. Connected by JEWS_FICTION, FICTION_FAMILY LIFE_GENERAL, NEW YORK (N.Y.)_FICTION. Authors featured include Abraham Cahan, Philip Roth, Edith Wharton, Theodore Drieser, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.