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Gritty Realism Books
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Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 855,370 ratings — published 2022
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,016,327 ratings — published 1960
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,898,050 ratings — published 1937
The Panopticon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 3.72 — 6,048 ratings — published 2011
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.40 — 472,263 ratings — published 1969
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,507,800 ratings — published 2012
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.08 — 843,982 ratings — published 2010
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,807,066 ratings — published 2010
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.20 — 789,192 ratings — published 1962
Dusk (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,166 ratings — published 2024
Vine Street (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,000 ratings — published
Scabby Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,216 ratings — published 2020
Sympathy for Wild Girls: Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 232 ratings — published
The Lion of Cairo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 458 ratings — published 2010
Memnon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 694 ratings — published 2006
Men of Bronze (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 707 ratings — published 2005
Beach Combers PI: A Surfside Noir Mystery (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 23 ratings — published
Shallow River (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 66,160 ratings — published 2020
Everyone and Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,695 ratings — published 2023
Kick the Latch (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,920 ratings — published 2022
Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
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avg rating 3.74 — 98,570 ratings — published 1953
SAS Brothers in Arms: The Mavericks Who Made the SAS: The First in the Blair 'Paddy' Mayne Trilogy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.55 — 531 ratings — published 2023
The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker, #16)
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avg rating 4.13 — 9,692 ratings — published 2018
Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 27,573 ratings — published 2016
Jerkoff: A Novel About Sex Addiction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2015
Under the Radar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2025
The Horse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 4,689 ratings — published
Red Winter Journey (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as gritty-realism)
avg rating 4.61 — 31 ratings — published
Smoke Kings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,062 ratings — published 2024
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,054,500 ratings — published 1846
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 673,672 ratings — published 1982
Great Plains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,564 ratings — published 1989
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,074 ratings — published 2001
Trust Her (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 4,152 ratings — published 2024
A poem is a house (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 94,797 ratings — published 1961
Las batallas en el desierto (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 32,057 ratings — published 1981
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 973,100 ratings — published 2015
Straw Dogs of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 727 ratings — published 2023
The April 3rd Incident (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.10 — 197 ratings — published 2010
Lotería (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 2,866 ratings — published 2013
Radiance of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 4,742 ratings — published 2014
Hard by a Great Forest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 6,705 ratings — published 2024
Hao: Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,064 ratings — published 2021
Triptych (Will Trent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 133,835 ratings — published 2006
The General and Julia (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,282 ratings — published 2023
Devils in Exile (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,543 ratings — published 2010
Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 17,146 ratings — published 2009
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 42,726 ratings — published 2011
Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
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avg rating 4.00 — 134,686 ratings — published 2010
“then I saw a church. I didn't particularly like churches, especially when they were filled with people. but I didn't fugure it to be that way at 9 p.m. I walked up the steps.
hey hey, woman, come see what's left of your man.
I could sit there a while and breath in the stink, maybe make something out of God, maybe give him a chance. I pulled at the door.
the motherfucker was locked.”
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
hey hey, woman, come see what's left of your man.
I could sit there a while and breath in the stink, maybe make something out of God, maybe give him a chance. I pulled at the door.
the motherfucker was locked.”
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“If she was so afraid and so traumatized by my act of mercy; why didn't she stop me?”
― FantasticLand
― FantasticLand
