14 must-read american books like Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3) by Cormac McCarthy

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Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award…

"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

If you liked the american plot in Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3) 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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"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. Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larr… read more

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"I’m not a chicken, Corporal Call,"

-Larry McMurtry, Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)

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3. Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.12

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon… read more

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"Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had be…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"Buffalo Hump wanted to see the ocean because the ocean would always be as it was. Few things could stay forever in the way they were when the spirits made them. Even the great plains of grass, the ho…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

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4. 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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5. The Last Picture Show

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels - the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a… read more

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"Hurry up and get changed, and don't call my daughter a bitch again.' 'No promises,' Lois said. 'You know what she's doing as well as I do, Gene. She doesn't give a damn about Sonny, she just wants to…"

-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show

"You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the cente…"

-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show

"Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, …"

-Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show

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6. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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7. Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more

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8. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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9. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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10. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

By: William H. Gass

4.07

Format: 242 pages,

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11. 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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12. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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13. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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14. Against the Day

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more

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15. 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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16. 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

17. Light in August

By: William Faulkner

3.89

Format: 704 pages,

Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mort… read more

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18. Warlock (Legends West, #1)

By: Robert Stone , Oakley Hall

3.87

Format: 268 pages,

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlockrevisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to p… read more

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19. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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20. 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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"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

21. 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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22. 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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23. Streets of Laredo

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more

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24. 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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"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

25. 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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26. 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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"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

27. Vineland

By: Thomas Pynchon

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more

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28. 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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"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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29. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more

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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

Cover of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses by Harold Bloom

30. Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses

By: Harold Bloom

4.25

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collectio… read more

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31. Double Knot

By: Mac Caltrider

4.94

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

In Double Knot, Mac Caltrider takes us to the front lines of Afghanistan during the most violent pe… read more

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