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by Cormac McCarthy · about this book

Loved Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy? If its violent, dark and dense prose hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Perfume, The Gunslinger and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West: Violent · Dark · Dense Prose · Mercenaries · Literary Fiction

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   Perfume

   Patrick Süskind

   Haunting · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose · Historical Fiction · Omniscient Narrator

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   The Gunslinger

   Stephen King

   Desert · Bleak · Haunting · Omniscient Narrator · Anti-Hero

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   The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

   Stephen Graham Jones

   Racial Violence · Haunting · Historical Fiction · Bleak · Violent

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   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   War Atrocities · Lyrical Prose · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator

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   The Poppy War

   R.F. Kuang

   War Atrocities · Bleak · Intense · Violent · Dark

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   Human Acts

   Han Kang

   War Atrocities · Bleak · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Haunting

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   Black Leopard, Red Wolf

   Marlon James

   Mercenaries · Dense Prose · Violent · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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   Lord of the Flies

   William Golding

   Bleak · Omniscient Narrator · Literary Fiction · Philosophy · Intense

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   The Spear Cuts Through Water

   Simon Jimenez

   Lyrical Prose · Dense Prose · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Intense

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    Tom's Crossing

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Desert · Historical Fiction · Haunting

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    The Stranger

    Albert Camus

    Philosophy · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Anti-Hero · Haunting

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    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction · Anti-Hero · Historical Fiction

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    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Literary Fiction · Dense Prose · Haunting · Historical Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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    Shadows Upon Time

    Christopher Ruocchio

    War Atrocities · Philosophy · Dense Prose · Male Lead · Morally Gray Character

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    Titus Groan

    Mervyn Peake

    Dense Prose · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Omniscient Narrator · Anti-Hero

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    Interview with the Vampire

    Anne Rice

    Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Anti-Hero · Classics · Male Lead

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    Savage Son: A Thriller

    Jack Carr

    Intense · Mercenaries · Anti-Hero · Violent · Male Lead

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    Dark Age

    Pierce Brown

    War Atrocities · Intense · Bleak · Violent · Dark

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19. 

    Tender Is the Flesh

    Agustina Bazterrica

    Bleak · Haunting · Intense · Violent · Dark

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    Matterhorn

    Karl Marlantes

    Bleak · Intense · Violent · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction

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