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Cormac McCarthy


Born
in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
July 20, 1933

Died
June 13, 2023

Genre
Fiction

Influences
William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beck ...more


Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter celebrated for his distinctive literary style, philosophical depth, and exploration of violence, morality, and the human condition. His writing, often characterized by sparse punctuation and lyrical, biblical language, delved into the primal forces that shape human behavior, set against the haunting landscapes of the American South and Southwest.
McCarthy’s early novels, including The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark, established him as a powerful voice in Southern Gothic literature, while Blood Meridian (1985) is frequently cited as his magnum opus—a brutal, visionary epic about violence and manifest destiny in the American West. In the 1990s, his "Border Trilogy"—All th ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,897,858 ratings · 149,490 reviews · 71 distinct works • Similar authors
The Road
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No Country for Old Men
4.17 avg rating — 239,350 ratings — published 2005 — 170 editions
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Blood Meridian, or, the Eve...
4.15 avg rating — 211,417 ratings — published 1985 — 184 editions
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All the Pretty Horses (The ...
4.06 avg rating — 143,019 ratings — published 1992 — 201 editions
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Child of God
3.82 avg rating — 53,984 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions
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The Crossing (The Border Tr...
4.16 avg rating — 46,330 ratings — published 1994 — 135 editions
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The Passenger (The Passenge...
3.57 avg rating — 36,622 ratings — published 2022 — 59 editions
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Cities of the Plain (The Bo...
4.13 avg rating — 31,191 ratings — published 1998 — 30 editions
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Suttree
4.20 avg rating — 27,613 ratings — published 1979 — 79 editions
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Outer Dark
3.89 avg rating — 24,728 ratings — published 1968 — 56 editions
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
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Book club selections for Oct/Nov/Dec!
PLEASE:
• Vote on a book you have not read, or will definitely reread for the discussion. This poll isn't a popularity contest for books you have read, it's for something we will read and then promptly discuss.
• If you vote on a book and it wins, we expect to see you back. :-P Don't vote if you can't participate, but feel free to comment below the poll if you'd like.
Happy voting!
We can either use the top 3 winners, or do a runoff poll next month, let me know if you care which!

The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) by Ben H. Winters
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Lesser known, subtle, pre-apocalypse
2014, 316 pages, 3.75 rating
$3.99 Kindle, cheap used paperback
 
  5 votes, 25.0%

Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) by Octavia E. Butler
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
Aliens, respected author but not a huge name
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Bleak, drama, "modern classic"
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Pines (Wayward Pines, #1) by Blake Crouch
Pines by Blake Crouch
High action, twisty, made into tv-show, love or hate
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Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1) by Susan Ee
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YA, angels who are assholes, darker than expected
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The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) by Rick Yancey
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins
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