5 best-selling short stories books like Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

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Knockemstiff

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr…

If you liked the short stories plot in Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Long Home

By: William Gay

4.04

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of… read more

Similar categories in William Gay's The Long Home book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • southern gothic
  • crime
  • fiction
"Down fabled roads reverting now to woods Winer felt himself imprisoned by the dark beyond the carlights and by the compulsive timbre of Motormouth's voice, a drone obsessed with spewing out words wit…"

-William Gay, The Long Home

"In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming throug…"

-William Gay, The Long Home

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2. The Weight of This World

By: David Joy

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a s… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's The Weight of This World book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • southern gothic
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Knockemstiff

By: Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr… read more

Similar categories in Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • horror
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • southern gothic
  • crime
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4. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • literature
  • southern gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

By: Frank Bill

4.44

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Frank Bill's Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • southern gothic
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Where All Light Tends to Go by David    Joy

6. Where All Light Tends to Go

By: David Joy

3.94

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bonem… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Where All Light Tends to Go book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • southern gothic
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Kentucky Straight: Stories

By: Chris Offutt

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and li… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Kentucky Straight: Stories book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • literature
  • southern gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more

Similar categories in William Gay's I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • southern gothic
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Motel Life

By: Nate Beaty , Willy Vlautin

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

With "echoes of Of Mice and Men" (The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Lifeexplores the frustrations and … read more

Similar categories in Nate Beaty's The Motel Life book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

By: Andre Dubus III , James Alan McPherson , Breece D'J Pancake

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the… read more

Similar categories in Andre Dubus III's The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction

11. A Feast of Snakes

By: Harry Crews

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird … read more

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12. Joe

By: Larry Brown

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.… read more

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13. The End of Vandalism

By: Tom Drury , None

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

A thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice....A lonely woman paints her toenails in a d… read more

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14. Fay

By: Larry Brown

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

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15. Desperation Road

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more

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16. The Gospel Singer

By: Harry Crews

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more

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17. Father and Son

By: Larry Brown

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This classic story of good and evil takes place in the rural American South of 1968. After being re… read more

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18. Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

By: Ron Rash

3.87

Format: 334 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Serenaand The Cove, thirty-four of his fines… read more

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19. Donnybrook

By: Frank Bill

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Trade Paperback

The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indi… read more

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20. When These Mountains Burn

By: David Joy

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's When These Mountains Burn book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • southern gothic
  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."

-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn

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21. The Line That Held Us

By: David Joy

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accide… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's The Line That Held Us book and Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things."

-David Joy, The Line That Held Us

"You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us."

-David Joy, The Line That Held Us

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4.04

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David Joy

4.25

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Knockemstiff

Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

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Child of God

Cormac McCarthy

3.84

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One Foot in Eden

Ron Rash

4.13

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Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)

Brian Panowich

3.99

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The Risen

Ron Rash

3.67

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Knockemstiff

Donald Ray Pollock

4.12

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