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The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,637 ratings — published 2011
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 44,058 ratings — published 2006
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,036 ratings — published 2015
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,672 ratings — published 2015
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 266,141 ratings — published 2005
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,739 ratings — published 2008
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,353 ratings — published 2008
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 22 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,484 ratings — published 1973
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,033 ratings — published 2010
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,406 ratings — published 2002
The Line That Held Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,452 ratings — published 2018
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,508 ratings — published 1976
Gods of Howl Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,151 ratings — published 2018
The Heavenly Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,454 ratings — published 2016
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,748 ratings — published 1985
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,655 ratings — published 2017
When These Mountains Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,713 ratings — published 2020
The Weight of This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,945 ratings — published 2017
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,474 ratings — published 2014
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,002 ratings — published 1992
Desperation Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,753 ratings — published 2017
Blacktop Wasteland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 65,338 ratings — published 2020
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,514 ratings — published 1968
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,011 ratings — published 1996
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.97 — 218,901 ratings — published 2016
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 79,426 ratings — published 1968
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,862 ratings — published 1999
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,073 ratings — published 2000
Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,312 ratings — published 2019
A Swollen Red Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 896 ratings — published 2014
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,854 ratings — published 2013
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,239 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,151 ratings — published 2006
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,225 ratings — published 2002
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 184,209 ratings — published 2021
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,239 ratings — published 2011
The Death of Sweet Mister (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,607 ratings — published 2001
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,806 ratings — published 1979
Poachers: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,274 ratings — published 1999
The Fighter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,512 ratings — published 2018
Love and Other Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 938 ratings — published 2015
Cry Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 672 ratings — published 2014
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,687 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,486 ratings — published 2014
The Outlaw Album (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,405 ratings — published 2011
Tomato Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,593 ratings — published 1998
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,136 ratings — published 1978
The Gospel Singer and Where Does One Go When There's No Place to Go? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,517 ratings — published 1995
“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
