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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
★4.07(543)
Like 'No Country for Old Men', this book offers a stark, unflinching look at violence and its origins.
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy (2005)
★4.17(453 ratings)
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain.
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by Jim Thompson (1980)
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This novel shares 'No Country for Old Men's' grim exploration of hidden evil beneath a mundane surface.
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★3.83(6)
Echoing 'No Country for Old Men', this story pits an average person against overwhelming, violent forces.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke (2017)
★3.94(58)
Similar to 'No Country for Old Men', this features a lawman navigating a landscape rife with deep-seated conflict.
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by Norman Mailer (1965)
★3.80(5)
Like 'No Country for Old Men', this novel delves into a protagonist operating by his own dark, self-made code.
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