Sunday, September 17, 2023

Thirteen notable wilderness novels

At B&N Reads Brittany Bunzey tagged thirteen "gritty stories of survival and ambition [to] take you on sometimes harrowing — and often exhilarating — journeys," including:
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

The inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film, this desolate and sprawling book matches the landscape in which it’s set — the Texas border. In the wake of a drug deal gone wrong, the lives of three men are tied together in a dangerous web. This book is violent and unrelenting, but readers will be drawn into the book’s web right along with the characters. 
Learn about the other entries on the list.

No Country For Old Men is among Paula Hawkins's five novels with criminal acts at their core, Lou Berney's top ten fugitive stories that master survival and suspense, Chris Ewan's top ten chases in literature, Mark Watson's ten top hotel novels, Matt Kraus's top six famous books with extremely faithful film adaptations, Allegra Frazier's five favorite fictional gold diggers, Kimberly Turner's ten most disturbing sociopaths in literature, and Elmore Leonard's ten favorite books.

--Marshal Zeringue