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Average rating: 3.9 · 24,412 ratings · 3,243 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 5,368 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Country Dark 4.09 avg rating — 3,110 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shifty’s Boys (Mick Hardin #2) 4.08 avg rating — 2,573 ratings — published 2022 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father, the Pornographer 3.62 avg rating — 2,074 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kentucky Straight: Stories 4.02 avg rating — 1,779 ratings — published 1992 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Code of the Hills (Mick Hardin, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,543 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reluctant Sheriff (Mick Hardin #4) 4.04 avg rating — 1,163 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the Woods really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 953 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Brother 3.85 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Same River Twice: A Memoir 3.96 avg rating — 582 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.”
― Chris Offutt, The Same River Twice: A Memoir

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“Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.”
― Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods

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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor,”
― Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods

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Kin, by Tayari Jones

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Calling Me Home, by Julie Kibler

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Women of a Promiscuous Nature, by Donna Everhart

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My Father, the Pornographer, by Chris Offutt

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