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Grit Lit Books
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The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,583 ratings — published 2011
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 39,268 ratings — published 2006
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,493 ratings — published 2015
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,275 ratings — published 2015
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 241,777 ratings — published 2005
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 36,946 ratings — published 2008
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,150 ratings — published 2008
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 54,348 ratings — published 1973
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,163 ratings — published 2010
The Line That Held Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,191 ratings — published 2018
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,124 ratings — published 2002
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,180 ratings — published 1976
Gods of Howl Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,004 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 213,888 ratings — published 1985
The Heavenly Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,071 ratings — published 2016
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,526 ratings — published 1992
When These Mountains Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,379 ratings — published 2020
The Weight of This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,819 ratings — published 2017
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,361 ratings — published 2017
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,332 ratings — published 2014
Desperation Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,644 ratings — published 2017
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,937 ratings — published 1968
Blacktop Wasteland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 55,754 ratings — published 2020
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,936 ratings — published 1996
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,779 ratings — published 1999
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 203,423 ratings — published 2016
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,913 ratings — published 2000
Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,114 ratings — published 2019
A Swollen Red Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 890 ratings — published 2014
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 70,898 ratings — published 1968
The Death of Sweet Mister (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,502 ratings — published 2001
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,687 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,054 ratings — published 2006
Poachers: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,222 ratings — published 1999
The Gospel Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,910 ratings — published 1968
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 145,434 ratings — published 2021
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 102,577 ratings — published 2011
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,810 ratings — published 2013
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,793 ratings — published 1979
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,157 ratings — published 2002
Love and Other Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 838 ratings — published 2015
Cry Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 662 ratings — published 2014
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,466 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,127 ratings — published 2014
Tomato Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,506 ratings — published 1998
Hard Cash Valley (Bull Mountain, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,768 ratings — published 2020
The Fighter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,421 ratings — published 2018
“In the morning we shed our blue sheep’s clothing. Our border shirts came out of satchels and onto our backs. We preferred this means of dress for it was more flatout and honest. The shirts were large with pistol pockets, and usually colored red or dun. Many had been embroidered with ornate stitching by loving women some were blessed enough to have. Mine was plain, but well broken in. I can think of no more chilling a sight than that of myself all astride my big bay horse with six or eight pistols dangling from my saddle, my rebel locks aloft on the breeze and a whoopish yell on my lips. When my awful costume was multiplied by that of my comrades, we stopped feint hearts just by our mode of dread stylishness.”
― Woe to Live On
― Woe to Live On
“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
