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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor
4.38 average rating, · 41.3k ratings
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
4.15 average rating, · 51k ratings
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The Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock
4.14 average rating, · 43.1k ratings
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Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
4.21 average rating, · 29.5k ratings
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Flannery O'Connor
4.22 average rating, · 22.5k ratings
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The Violent Bear It Away
Flannery O'Connor
4.07 average rating, · 16k ratings
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The Collected Stories
Eudora Welty
4.20 average rating, · 8.4k ratings
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
William Faulkner
4.25 average rating, · 7.9k ratings
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Blackwater: The Complete Caskey Family Saga
Michael McDowell
4.39 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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The Heavenly Table
Donald Ray Pollock
4.10 average rating, · 7.4k ratings
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The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Truman Capote
4.18 average rating, · 6.6k ratings
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One Foot in Eden
Ron Rash
4.13 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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Appalachian Daughter
Mary Jane Salyers
4.03 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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A Feast of Snakes
Harry Crews
4.02 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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When These Mountains Burn
David Joy
4.06 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Flannery O'Connor
4.49 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Joe
Larry Brown
4.17 average rating, · 3.8k ratings
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Burning Bright
Ron Rash
4.12 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Past Is Never
Tiffany Quay Tyson
4.09 average rating, · 3.2k ratings
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Provinces of Night
William Gay
4.20 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Airships
Barry Hannah
4.01 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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Country Dark
Chris Offutt
4.09 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Father and Son
Larry Brown
4.12 average rating, · 3k ratings
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Collected Stories
Carson McCullers
4.30 average rating, · 2.6k ratings
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