Cormac McCarthy 1900
- What it is
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Outlaws and guns in the West · nobody is entirely good
- Genre
- Crime Literary Thriller
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Dark and unflinching
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Nobody is entirely good · it messes with your head
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Nobody is entirely good · fierce and defiant
Crime and Punishment
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Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it ties your stomach in a knot
The butcher boy
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It tells it with no filter · it leaves you shaken
Red Sparrow
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · one more chapter, then another
Heart of Darkness
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No clean hands here · it stirs you up inside
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It tells it with no filter · it won't tell you everything at once
Sharp Objects
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It tells it with no filter · it's hiding a secret
We Need to Talk about Kevin
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Nobody is entirely good · it gets under your skin
Under the volcano
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It tells it with no filter · it stays with you
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh 2019
It tells it with no filter · sharp and very funny
El Filatelista
Nicolas Feuz 2025
It tells it with no filter · the truth comes out bit by bit
First Blood
David Morrell 1972
It tells it with no filter · fierce and defiant
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Only dark
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris 1988
Readers put them together in Great books that became great films
Asylum
Patrick McGrath 1998
No clean hands here · it stirs you up inside
Defending Jacob
William Landay 2012
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
Saturday
Ian McEwan 2004
You end up rooting for the wrong people · melancholic and unhurried
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden 2024
No clean hands here · it won't tell you everything at once
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré 1987
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
Fingersmith Msr
Sarah Waters 2002
Nobody is entirely good · it's hiding a secret
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore 2024
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you thinking
The secret history
Donna Tartt 1992
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
The Hunter's Daughter
Nicola Solvinic 2025
Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
Anatomy of a Murder
Robert Traver 1958
No clean hands here · a trial at the heart of the story
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow 1987
You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
You
Caroline Kepnes 2014
Nobody is entirely good · it gets under your skin
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden 2022
You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith 1973
Nobody is entirely good · it messes with your head
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson 1962
Nobody is entirely good, but in a classic
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey 2005
Nobody is entirely good · fierce and defiant
3 books · Alike in just one
Only western
News of the World ARE
Paulette Jiles 2016
Like yours: western · tender and sad at once
True Grit
Charles Portis 1969
In common with yours: western · sharp and very funny
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger 2004
Like yours: western · comforting, like coming home
3 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton 1905
No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 1777
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
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