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The Best Books With Red in the Title

It turns out that books with red in the title are way more common than you think. Here are 100+ good books with red in the title, including both fiction and non-fiction. It's safe to say that most of these titles aren't books about the color red and all of its hues, but the core commonality between these books is that they have the word red in the title.

Books with red in the title include One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, and Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell. If you have a favorite red book, vote it up below, or add it to the list if it's not already here. It doesn't matter if it's science fiction, fantasy, romance, or non-fiction - if the book has red in the name, it belongs on this list.

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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

January 31, 2025
Anne Carson is a genius. The sort of genius where even the most bawdy of jokes feel like the culmination of a semester’s worth of deep research to deliver a dissertation like a punchline. Autobiography of Red is a masterpiece from Carson that, heartbreaking and hilarious in turn, plays with the Classics in a way that can simultaneously make professors cheer and clutch pearls as she reminds us nothing is sacrosanct in the pursuit of experimental art. Autobiography of Red is a stunning balance of serious and silly that lifts a classic tale by its ankles and shakes it to spill insights from its pockets onto the pavement. Not unlike her description of these “fragments” from Stesichoros she is purportedly presenting the reading, it reads as if it had ‘composed a substantial narrative poem then ripped it to pieces and buried the pieces in a box with some song lyrics and lecture notes and scraps of meat’ as Carson transforms a Greek myth into a modern, queer coming-of-age tale of ‘identity memory eternity.’ Under Carson’s jocular “retelling”—if it can even be called that beyond having several key ingredients—the mythical, winged beast Geryon becomes a modern lovelorn youth with a penchant for photography adrift on the tempestuous seas of his emotions. He reads like an 80s indie film, camera slung around his neck, a tattered volume of German philosophy in his pockets, and headphone blasting the saddest tracks of The Smiths into his ears. A sort of emo composure that screams ‘under the seams runs the pain,’ yet upon his repeated interactions with Herakles it becomes a little less Sixteen Candles, a little more “touch me” as the song goes. It is a story of loss and grief but, because ‘sometimes a journey makes itself necessary,’ it all climbs a strenuous path towards self-discovery and acceptance. While Carson warns ‘if you find this text difficult, you are not alone,’ and there are moments when you may
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  • Pierce Brown

    American science fiction author (born 1988)

    Pierce Brown (born January 28, 1988) is an American science fiction author who writes the Red Rising series, consisting of Red Rising (2014), Golden Son (2015), Morning Star (2016), Iron Gold (2018), Dark Age (2019), and Light Bringer (2023). He also has written a six-issue prequel comic book series, Red Rising: Sons of Ares, that was published in 2017.

    Personal life

    Pierce Brown grew up in seven different states. His mother, Colleen Birdnow Brown, was the President and CEO of Fisher Communications and the Chairman of American Apparel's Board of Directors. His father, Guy Brown, is a former local banker.

    Brown graduated from Pepperdine University, where he majored in political science and economics. After graduation, he worked a variety of jobs in politics and startup tech companies. Brown was working for the NBC Page Program in Burbank, California and living in his former political science professor's garage when he sold Red Rising in 2012.

    Career

    Brown wrote six novels and faced rejection from over 120 agents before selling Red Rising. He wrote the novel in two months above his parents' garage in Seattle, Washington.

    Red Rising, published in 2014, received widespread positive reviews, and hit #20 on The New York Times Best Seller list. The 2015 sequel, Golden Son, hit #6 on the same list and was equally praised by critics. In 2016, Morning Star reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list in Adult Hardcover, Digital Book and cumulative. It also reached #1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

    In February 2014, shortly after the release of Red Rising, Universal Pictures acquired the rights for a film adaptation in a seven -figure auction.[14]

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    An OprahMag.com Best Thriller

    Best Mystery & Thriller: The Silent Patient

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    A famous painter shoots her fashion photographer husband five times in the face—and then never speaks another word. But a determined criminal psychotherapist is set on unraveling her story.

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    An OprahMag.com Best Beach Read of 2019

    Best Historical Fiction: Daisy Jones & The Six

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    The thrilling sex, love, and rock 'n' roll origin story of the legendary (fictional) band Daisy Jones and The Six is told via oral history by Daisy herself.

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    Best Fantasy: Ninth House

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    While stuck in the hospital after being the sole survivor of a homicide, the troubled Galaxy "Alex" Stern is surprisingly offered acceptance into Yale. She's tasked with one job: track the activities of the university's elite secret societies. 

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    An OprahMag.com Best Romance Novel 2019

    Best Romance: Red, White & Royal Blue

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    America's First Son and the Prince of Wales engage in a publicity stunt that's meant to patch-up their public feud. But i

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