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If you loved Straight Man

Books like Straight Man

If you loved Straight Man by Richard Russo, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

Nobody's Fool

Richard Russo

No. 2

Empire Falls

Richard Russo

No. 3

Bridge of Sighs

Richard Russo

No. 4

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo, Arthur Morey

No. 5

Wonder Boys

Michael Chabon, Hans Hermann

No. 6

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

No. 7

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

No. 8

Going After Cacciato

Tim O'Brien

No. 9

A Man in Full

Tom Wolfe

No. 10

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

No. 11

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

No. 12

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

No. 13

The World According to Garp

John Irving

No. 14

Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

No. 15

The Patron Saint of Liars

Ann Patchett

No. 16

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

No. 17

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson, Tony Goldwyn

No. 18

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

No. 19

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

No. 20

Slam

Nick Hornby

No. 21

State of Wonder

Ann Patchett

No. 22

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

No. 23

Henderson the Rain King

Saul Bellow, Luciano Bianciardi

No. 24

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe