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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 — 41,036 ratings — published 2011
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,964 ratings — published 2006
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,590 ratings — published 2015
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,344 ratings — published 2015
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 245,523 ratings — published 2005
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 36,993 ratings — published 2008
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,254 ratings — published 2008
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 55,028 ratings — published 1973
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,254 ratings — published 2010
The Line That Held Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,221 ratings — published 2018
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,160 ratings — published 2002
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,231 ratings — published 1976
Gods of Howl Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,031 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,320 ratings — published 1985
The Heavenly Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,143 ratings — published 2016
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,702 ratings — published 1992
When These Mountains Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,431 ratings — published 2020
The Weight of This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,846 ratings — published 2017
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,578 ratings — published 2017
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,348 ratings — published 2014
Desperation Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,656 ratings — published 2017
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,438 ratings — published 1968
Blacktop Wasteland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 57,343 ratings — published 2020
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,954 ratings — published 1996
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,786 ratings — published 1999
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 206,828 ratings — published 2016
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,929 ratings — published 2000
Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,155 ratings — published 2019
A Swollen Red Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 891 ratings — published 2014
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 72,073 ratings — published 1968
The Death of Sweet Mister (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,517 ratings — published 2001
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,808 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,072 ratings — published 2006
Poachers: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,231 ratings — published 1999
The Gospel Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,963 ratings — published 1968
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 151,538 ratings — published 2021
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,001 ratings — published 2011
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,816 ratings — published 2013
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,096 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 — 2,167 ratings — published 2002
Love and Other Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 859 ratings — published 2015
Cry Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 665 ratings — published 2014
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,503 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,179 ratings — published 2014
Tomato Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,530 ratings — published 1998
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,966 ratings — published 1978
Hard Cash Valley (Bull Mountain, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,804 ratings — published 2020
“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.”
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
“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
