9 Best literary fiction books like Salvage This World by Michael Farris Smith

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Salvage This World

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her …

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1. Hell at the Breech

By: Tom Franklin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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2. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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3. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Nothing but the Bones

By: Brian Panowich

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Nothing but the Bones book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • southern gothic
  • audiobook
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5. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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6. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

Similar categories in Peter Farris's The Devil Himself book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like wh… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's The Last King of California book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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10. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Brown's Rednecks book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Salvage This World

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her … read more

Similar categories in Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • southern gothic
  • audiobook
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13. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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15. Small Town Sins

By: Ken Jaworowski

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing th… read more

Similar categories in Ken Jaworowski's Small Town Sins book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. Sweet Thing: A Novel

By: David Swinson

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this DC-set standalone from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" ( New York Times B… read more

Similar categories in David Swinson's Sweet Thing: A Novel book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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17. Joe Hustle

By: Richard Lange

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more

Similar categories in Richard Lange's Joe Hustle book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • fiction
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18. The Weeds

By: Katy Simpson Smith

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississip… read more

Similar categories in Katy Simpson Smith's The Weeds book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can't demand love. Not expect it, not wait for it, not want it. It comes on air like a scent."

-Katy Simpson Smith, The Weeds

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19. Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Broiler book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

19 Top fiction books like Salvage This World by Michael Farris Smith

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The Caretaker

Ron Rash

4.20

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Nothing but the Bones

Brian Panowich

4.16

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Lowdown Road

Scott Von Doviak

4.08

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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