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…
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
3. The Devil All the Time
By: Donald Ray Pollock
4.13
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters f… read more
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- gothic
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- horror
"Some people were born just so they could be buried."-Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time
4. The Sunset Limited
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement wher… read more
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5. 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
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- southern gothic
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6. 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
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- literary fiction
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- horror
7. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
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
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- horror
- southern gothic
9. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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- short stories
- horror
10. Airships
By: Barry Hannah
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gin… read more
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11. The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
3.45
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
An explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds over the past 20 years. read more
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12. 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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13. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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14. 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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15. Dirty Work
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
Dirty Workis the story of two men, strangers--one white, the other black. Both were born and raised… read more
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16. 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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17. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
By: Harry Crews , Michael McCurdy
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A Childhoodis the unforgettable memoir of Harry Crews' earliest years, a sharply remembered portrai… read more
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18. The Pugilist at Rest
By: Thom Jones
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeare… read more
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19. Lord of Dark Places
By: Hal Bennett
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A detective story, a black comedy, a tragedy, and thirty years out of print, it's a dissertation on… read more
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20. All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
By: Joe R. Lansdale
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
Jack Catcher's parents are dead--his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart--and he has… read more
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21. 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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23. Sanctuary
By: William Faulkner
4.32
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuaryis a powerful novel examining the nature of… read more
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24. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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25. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
26. Burma Sahib
By: Paul Theroux
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new… read more
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- fiction
27. 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
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28. Whale Fall
By: Elizabeth O'Connor
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more
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- fiction
29. 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
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"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
30. Zombie Bake-Off
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.50
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gathe… read more
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- horror
"If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway."-Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off
31. The Fighter
By: Michael Farris Smith
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith, "one of the best writers of his generation" (To… read more
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