9 best-selling southern books like Country Dark by Chris Offutt

Cover of Country Dark by Chris Offutt

Country Dark

By: Chris Offutt

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a f…

If you liked the southern plot in Country Dark by Chris Offutt , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1) by Brian Panowich

1. Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)

By: Brian Panowich

3.99

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made i… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1) book and Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • novels
  • southern
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
  • crime
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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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
  • crime

3. Gutshot Straight

By: Lou Berney

4.13

Format: None pages,

Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man is too nice a guy for the life he's led, but not ni… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Gutshot Straight book and Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

By: Tom Franklin

3.90

Format: 448 pages,

Tom Franklin's narrative power and flair for characterization have been compared to the likes of Ha… read more

Similar categories in Tom Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter book and Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • southern
  • crime
  • fiction

5. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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6. The Heavenly Table

By: Donald Ray Pollock

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Timeand Knockemstiff, com… read more

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7. Fay

By: Larry Brown

3.86

Format: 368 pages,

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Pop. 1280

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more

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11. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
  • crime
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12. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • southern gothic
  • crime
"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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14. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • southern
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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15. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • southern
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Those We Thought We Knew by David    Joy

16. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • literary fiction
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2) by Brian Panowich

17. Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)

By: Brian Panowich

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Clayton Burroughs is sheriff of Bull Mountain and last surviving member of the brutal and blood-ste… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2) book and Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • southern
  • crime
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of Country Dark by Chris Offutt

18. Country Dark

By: Chris Offutt

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a f… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Country Dark book and Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • literary fiction
  • americana
  • the united states of america
  • novels
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • southern gothic
  • crime
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19. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
"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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20. 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 Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Wild Inside by Jamey Bradbury

21. The Wild Inside

By: Jamey Bradbury

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan w… read more

Similar categories in Jamey Bradbury's The Wild Inside book and Chris Offutt's Country Dark

  • novels
  • fiction
"Son visage était un nuage pris dans un vent violent, changeant à chaque seconde, il n'arrivait pas à se fixer sur une seule émotion."

-Jamey Bradbury, The Wild Inside

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