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The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,016 ratings — published 2011
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,062 ratings — published 2006
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,490 ratings — published 2015
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,784 ratings — published 2015
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 254,316 ratings — published 2005
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,444 ratings — published 2008
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,111 ratings — published 2008
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 46,514 ratings — published 2010
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,347 ratings — published 1973
The Line That Held Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,311 ratings — published 2018
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,244 ratings — published 2002
Gods of Howl Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,076 ratings — published 2018
The Heavenly Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,253 ratings — published 2016
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,331 ratings — published 1976
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 227,276 ratings — published 1985
When These Mountains Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,564 ratings — published 2020
The Weight of This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,888 ratings — published 2017
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,953 ratings — published 2017
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,381 ratings — published 2014
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,114 ratings — published 1992
Desperation Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,701 ratings — published 2017
Blacktop Wasteland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,753 ratings — published 2020
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 26,317 ratings — published 1968
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,974 ratings — published 1996
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,809 ratings — published 1999
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 213,673 ratings — published 2016
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,576 ratings — published 1968
Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,218 ratings — published 2019
A Swollen Red Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 892 ratings — published 2014
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 28,960 ratings — published 2012
The Gospel Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,059 ratings — published 1968
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,965 ratings — published 2000
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 165,727 ratings — published 2021
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,858 ratings — published 2011
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,828 ratings — published 2013
The Death of Sweet Mister (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,557 ratings — published 2001
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,100 ratings — published 2006
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,718 ratings — published 1979
Poachers: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,248 ratings — published 1999
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,181 ratings — published 2002
Cry Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 667 ratings — published 2014
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,566 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,281 ratings — published 2014
Tomato Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,561 ratings — published 1998
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,038 ratings — published 1978
Hard Cash Valley (Bull Mountain, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,870 ratings — published 2020
Cottonmouths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 828 ratings — published 2017
“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
“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
