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The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,238 ratings — published 2011
Winter's Bone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 44,436 ratings — published 2006
Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,152 ratings — published 2015
Where All Light Tends to Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,725 ratings — published 2015
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 269,943 ratings — published 2005
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,839 ratings — published 2008
Serena (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.55 — 37,428 ratings — published 2008
The Line That Held Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,492 ratings — published 2018
One Foot in Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,470 ratings — published 2002
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,195 ratings — published 1973
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 47,149 ratings — published 2010
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,579 ratings — published 1976
Gods of Howl Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,167 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,964 ratings — published 1985
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,917 ratings — published 2017
The Heavenly Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,509 ratings — published 2016
When These Mountains Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,767 ratings — published 2020
The Weight of This World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,972 ratings — published 2017
Fourth of July Creek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,494 ratings — published 2014
Bastard Out of Carolina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,262 ratings — published 1992
Desperation Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,768 ratings — published 2017
Blacktop Wasteland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 66,775 ratings — published 2020
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,939 ratings — published 1968
Father and Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,029 ratings — published 1996
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 220,254 ratings — published 2016
The Long Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,874 ratings — published 1999
Provinces of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,110 ratings — published 2000
Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,350 ratings — published 2019
A Swollen Red Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 899 ratings — published 2014
True Grit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.17 — 80,922 ratings — published 1968
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,860 ratings — published 2013
A Land More Kind Than Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,551 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,170 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 — 2,239 ratings — published 2002
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 189,558 ratings — published 2021
The Death of Sweet Mister (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,628 ratings — published 2001
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,235 ratings — published 1979
All the Sinners Bleed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 151,093 ratings — published 2023
The Fighter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,532 ratings — published 2018
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,769 ratings — published 2011
Love and Other Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 960 ratings — published 2015
Cry Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 676 ratings — published 2014
The Cove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,723 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,555 ratings — published 2014
The Outlaw Album (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,420 ratings — published 2011
Tomato Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,606 ratings — published 1998
Poachers: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,278 ratings — published 1999
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grit-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,177 ratings — published 1978
“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
“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
