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Grit Lit


Grit Lit Books

The Devil All the Time
Winter's Bone
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
Where All Light Tends to Go
No Country for Old Men
Knockemstiff
Joe
Serena
Child of God
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
One Foot in Eden
The Line That Held Us
Gods of Howl Mountain
The Heavenly Table
A Feast of Snakes
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The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Getaway by Jim Thompson
Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
118 books — 34 voters
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonTobacco Road by Erskine CaldwellThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainDeliverance by James Dickey
White Trash Literature
191 books — 51 voters

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockThe Road by Cormac McCarthyWinter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Regional Grit Lit
120 books — 87 voters
Lie to Me by J.T. EllisonBlood on Their Hands by Bob BrinkThe Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv ConstantineBonfire by Krysten RitterThe Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks
Jen's Reading List: Grit Lit
10 books — 3 voters

Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'ConnorWise Blood by Flannery O'ConnorJoe by Larry Brown
The Belled Buzzard - Reading List
90 books — 9 voters

Quotes Tagged “Grit Lit”

Charles Dodd White
“ 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. ”
― Charles Dodd White, Lambs of Men
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Harry Crews
“ Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it. ”
― Harry Crews, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
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Starlings at Grit Lit Dec 2011
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