14 best-selling fiction books like The Cove by Ron Rash

Cover of The Cove by Ron Rash

The Cove

By: Ron Rash

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This lyrical, heart-rending tale, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows onc…

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1. The Unquiet Grave (Ballad, #12)

By: Sharyn McCrumb

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteent… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. A Land More Kind Than Home

By: Wiley Cash

3.88

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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3. 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 Ron Rash's The Cove

  • mystery
  • southern
  • fiction
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4. Rise the Dark (Mark Novak, #2)

By: Michael Koryta

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mark Novak's greatest mystery may be his own... Rise the dark. These were the last words written in… read more

Similar categories in Michael Koryta's Rise the Dark (Mark Novak, #2) book and Ron Rash's The Cove

  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

By: Frank Bill

4.44

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • southern
  • fiction
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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

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  • mystery
  • southern
  • fiction
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7. Provinces of Night

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more

Similar categories in William Gay's Provinces of Night book and Ron Rash's The Cove

  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

4.67

Format: 121 pages, ebook

The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Homereturns with this eagerly awaited… read more

Similar categories in Wiley Cash's The Last Ballad book and Ron Rash's The Cove

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Cove by Ron Rash

9. The Cove

By: Ron Rash

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

This lyrical, heart-rending tale, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows onc… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Cove book and Ron Rash's The Cove

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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10. Little Sister Death

By: William Gay

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer's block. He … read more

Similar categories in William Gay's Little Sister Death book and Ron Rash's The Cove

  • southern
  • fiction

11. 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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12. This Dark Road to Mercy

By: Wiley Cash

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

The critically-acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns… read more

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13. Walking Across Egypt

By: Clyde Edgerton

4.67

Format: 112 pages,

"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of … read more

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14. The Quiet Twin

By: Dan Vyleta

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Vienna, 1939. Professor Speckstein's dog has been brutally killed, the latest victim in a string of… read more

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15. Gods of Howl Mountain

By: Taylor Brown

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Gods of Howl Mountain,award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiske… read more

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16. 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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17. 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

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  • mystery
  • southern
  • fiction
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18. 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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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
"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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19. 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

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Those We Thought We Knew by David    Joy

20. 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 Ron Rash's The Cove

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt by Phoebe Zerwick

21. Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt

By: Phoebe Zerwick

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarce… read more

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The Unquiet Grave (Ballad, #12)

Sharyn McCrumb

3.76

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A Land More Kind Than Home

Wiley Cash

3.88

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Provinces of Night

William Gay

3.64

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Wiley Cash

4.67

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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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William Kent Krueger

4.29

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