A collection of five Cormac McCarthy novels on a wooden shelf.

First read of the year? Make it McCarthy.

Discover a masterpiece from the modern literary pioneer. From an updated edition of Blood Meridian, featuring a new introduction from Marlon James, to the apocalyptic elegy which won him the Pulitzer Prize, to the debut work which immediately cemented him as an astonishing voice in literature, we invite you to journey through some of the most brilliant, challenging, and moving works of the past century.

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Book cover for blood meridian or the evening redness in the west cormac mccarthy

An epic tale of the violence and corruption of America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the mythology of the “Wild West.” With a new introduction by Marlon James.

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Book cover for the road pulitzer prize winner cormac mccarthy

The Pulitzer Prize–winning post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive. An unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of.

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McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens it to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as contemporary as the headlines in this brutal, moving novel.

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Book cover for all the pretty horses border trilogy 1 national book award winner cormac mccarthy

The National Book Award-winning first volume in the Border Trilogy about a sixteen-year-old rancher on a journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

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Book cover for the crossing book 2 of the border trilogy cormac mccarthy

The tale of a sixteen-year-old who captures a wolf and sets off into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning.

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The Border Trilogy concludes, with both heroes facing down love, sacrifice, violence, and tragedy in a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.

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The story of a haunted salvage diver, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

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The box set of McCarthy’s final masterpiece: a thrilling two-part story of siblings, haunted by loss, pursued by conspiracy, and longing for a death they cannot reconcile with God.

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The conclusion to the tale started in The Passenger. An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.

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Book cover for the orchard keeper cormac mccarthy

McCarthy's first novel, set in remote Tennessee in the years between the wars. It's the story of young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either, killed the boy’s father.

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Book cover for the stonemason a play in five acts cormac mccarthy

A taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family—the first play published by the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist.

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Praise for McCarthy

“McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly—envied.”

Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man

One cannot imagine American fiction without Blood Meridian, any more than one could without Moby-Dick, As I Lay Dying, or Beloved.

Marlon James, Blood Meridian introduction

Photograph of author Cormac McCarthy. Photo Credit Beowulf Sheeham

Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture.