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The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 39,958 ratings — published 2011
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 38,343 ratings — published 2006
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,368 ratings — published 2015
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,169 ratings — published 2015
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 237,329 ratings — published 2005
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 36,873 ratings — published 2008
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,060 ratings — published 2008
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 53,608 ratings — published 1973
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,024 ratings — published 2010
The Line That Held Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,125 ratings — published 2018
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,068 ratings — published 2002
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,133 ratings — published 1976
Gods of Howl Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,981 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 208,906 ratings — published 1985
The Heavenly Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,015 ratings — published 2016
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,266 ratings — published 1992
When These Mountains Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,308 ratings — published 2020
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,067 ratings — published 2017
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,297 ratings — published 2014
The Weight of This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,778 ratings — published 2017
Desperation Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,621 ratings — published 2017
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,516 ratings — published 1968
Blacktop Wasteland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 53,883 ratings — published 2020
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,926 ratings — published 1996
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,760 ratings — published 1999
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 200,038 ratings — published 2016
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,890 ratings — published 2000
Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,076 ratings — published 2019
A Swollen Red Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 887 ratings — published 2014
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,593 ratings — published 1968
The Death of Sweet Mister (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,491 ratings — published 2001
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,548 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,029 ratings — published 2006
Poachers: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,213 ratings — published 1999
The Gospel Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,879 ratings — published 1968
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 137,538 ratings — published 2021
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,067 ratings — published 2011
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,794 ratings — published 2013
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,149 ratings — published 2002
Love and Other Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 815 ratings — published 2015
Cry Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 659 ratings — published 2014
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,417 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,074 ratings — published 2014
Tomato Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,495 ratings — published 1998
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 27,428 ratings — published 1979
Hard Cash Valley (Bull Mountain, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,722 ratings — published 2020
The Fighter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,404 ratings — published 2018
“Men were doomed to repeat the sins of not only their fathers, but all their ancient forbears on back to Cain. That was the true mark upon man, scripted in his very blood.”
― Lambs of Men
― Lambs of Men
“The town of North Falls consisted of twenty-eight square miles positioned on a high plateau in the southern region of the Green Mountain range. It had the highest altitude of any village in the state, which meant the snow came early and it came often. It also meant that the first thing anybody noticed about the town was the church steeple. The rotting whitewashed wood and the slatted oval window and the copper spire all connected to the simple wood framing. It was the highest point in the state, and people liked to say that it was closer to God than anywhere else in Vermont. Not that it did the town much good.”
― Before Familiar Woods
― Before Familiar Woods
