Books like Winter's Bone
A sixteen-year-old Ozark girl walks into the country-meth cousinhood around her house looking for her bail-jumped father before the family loses the land, in Woodrell's cold-wind prose.
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Salvage the Bones
A pregnant fifteen-year-old in rural Mississippi weathers Hurricane Katrina with her brothers, her fighting dogs, and a ferocity that refuses to break.
Nightcrawling
Kiara Johnson, seventeen, is trying to keep the rent paid on the East Oakland apartment she shares with her older brother when a chance encounter pulls her into a scandal that runs through the city's police department.
Joe
Joe Ransom, a hard-drinking ex-convict who runs a crew poisoning trees for a timber company in north Mississippi, takes on a teenage boy from a drifter family and tries to protect him from his own father.
Home
A traumatised Black Korean War veteran travels across 1950s America to save his sister from a medical experiment.
We the Animals
Three brothers run wild in upstate New York, sons of a Puerto Rican father and a white mother from Brooklyn whose love for each other is as volatile as it is fierce.
Where the Red Fern Grows
A Depression-era Ozarks boy saves two years to buy a pair of coonhound pups and trains them into the best hunting team in the hills, in a children's book that ends the way American dog books do.
Independent People
An Icelandic sheep farmer who worked for years to own his own land refuses to bend to anyone, and his family pays for his fierce independence across decades of hardship.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Edgar Sawtelle, born unable to speak, grows up on a farm in northern Wisconsin where his family breeds and trains a line of uncommonly gifted dogs, until his father's brother, Claude, comes home.
The Waters
On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.
Reeds in the Wind
In a Sardinian village, three ageing sisters of a ruined noble family and their devoted servant Efix, who carries a secret, wait for a nephew from the mainland who might save them.
The Pearl
Kino, a poor pearl diver on the Gulf of California, finds the Pearl of the World and believes it will pay for a doctor for his baby son, Coyotito.
The Yearling
Jody Baxter, a boy living with his parents on a hardscrabble farm in the Florida scrub in the 1870s, adopts an orphaned fawn and calls it Flag.