14 Top classics books like Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa…

"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

If you liked the classics plot in Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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2. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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3. Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages,

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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4. American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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  • classics
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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6. East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

4.42

Format: 601 pages, Paperback

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more

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  • historical
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  • historical fiction
  • novels
"All great and precious things are lonely."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"No one who is young is ever going to be old."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"A man without words is a man without thought."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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7. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

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8. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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9. House of Leaves

By: Mark Z. Danielewski

4.09

Format: 710 pages, Paperback

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"I must read. I must read. I must read."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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10. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

11. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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12. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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13. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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14. Infinite Jest

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more

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15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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16. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
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  • historical fiction
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

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17. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • classics
  • american
  • literature
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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

18. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • historical
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cover of Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, Tom Quirk, Andrew Delbanco

19. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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  • american
  • literature
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  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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20. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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21. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying"

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

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Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.30

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Ernest J. Gaines

2.00

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