Cormac McCarthy may be the greatest living-writer today. Many of his works, including Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road, are cited by his contemporaries as masterpieces and personal favorites. Indeed, you will see McCarthy’s novels listed in many of this site’s posts. The following books, which you would surely find in McCarthy’s vast personal library (allegedly comprising of some 7,000 books), are a selection of the author’s literary influences. Feel free to click on the images for more information (via Amazon).
Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)
Herman Melville: The Complete works (Golden Deer Classics)
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
The Night of the Hunter: Vintage Movie Classics (A Vintage Movie Classic)
H. L. Mencken: the Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition: (Library of America 257)
The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)
A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)
Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
If you are unfamiliar with McCarthy, check out his following works:
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
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