Hick Lit

Also known as rural noir, country noir, redneck noir, redneck grit, or hillbilly noir.

It differs from southern gothic in that it does not contain supernatural, ironic or unusual events.

For more information, read Keith Rawson's article here.
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Hijack in Abstract (A Cherry Tucker Mystery, #3)
Knockemstiff
The Devil All the Time
Winter's Bone
Dark Places
Cry Father
Death in Perspective (A Cherry Tucker Mystery, #4)
Still Life in Brunswick Stew (A Cherry Tucker Mystery Book 2)
The 12 Slays of Christmas
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
A Hell Called Ohio
If the Creek Don't Rise
The Death of Sweet Mister
Body
A Composition in Murder: A Southern Humorous Mystery (A Cherry Tucker Mystery Book 7)
Fried Pickles and the Fuzz by Calico DanielsHijack in Abstract by Larissa ReinhartBird After Bird by Leslea TashHigh on a Hill by Dorothy GarlockNearly Departed in Deadwood by Ann Charles
Hick-Lit
13 books — 4 voters
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters

David Connerley Nahm
All children want to go to space. Earth only offers parents wailing about overdraft notices and evening news playing in an empty den. Dead pets too. Childhood is a rot. And so they look up and see stars shiver, ancient information only just now arriving, because that is the only place left to look, and they yearn.
David Connerley Nahm, Ancient Oceans of Central Kentucky

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