Between Two Fires remains one of the most memorable reading experiences of my life. The book terrified me, and I almost wanted to put it down to spare my mental health, but I couldn't. It's truly one of the best novels of our age.

Cormac's Blood is excellent. Suttree, too. Thanks for your video(s). Peace on earth.

Love the notion of Blood Meridian as a coming-of-age story. Fun video, I'm glad to have found your channel.

This is a really interesting list, thanks!

I like the list man, thanks for making the video. Interesting suggestions, I actually own the Sea of fertility by Mishima, was good to hear a bit more about his work. Definitely getting between two fires.

Really enjoyed the video! Some of these books were already on my radar, but after that I'll have to check them out. Last month I read my first Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury, and now I'm reading As I Lay Dying and I would definitely put The Sound in this list as well. There were some imagery and descriptions in the book that sounded so Mccarthy so I definitely think if you're a fan of his style, you also gonna enjoy that book (obviously because Mccarthy was inspired by Faulkner lol)

OF 1920 is a great Bourbon. Good books and Bourbon. Instant sub.

These might be two strange recommendations, but to me they show as much cruelty and brutality as McCarthy's scalpers. The Call of the Wild by Jack London. If you read this in school, read it again and see how much relentless horror and violence is in this book. Buck, a domesticated dog, is violently kidnapped and brought to Alaska to be forced into being a sled dog for greedy cutthroat men and women searching for gold. He's beaten nearly to death, he has to learn to force the other dogs to fear him even killing a dog that challenges his leadership, humans die from their own stupidity and greed. Buck becomes so deadly by the end of the book he's killing bears for fun and nearly wipes out an entire Indian tribe. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen particularly The Red Shoes, The Rose Elf, and The Evil King. I really didn't expect HCA stories to be this horrifying. Parents die, kids are killed, innocent orphans are tortured in bizarre ways by angels. These stories are like concentrated doses of brutal grimdark stories without any of the fluff. Grimms Fairy Tales also have a lot of this violent fantasy DnD stuff, including a story I don't know the title of where a brother ventures down into a cave of dwarves to kill the dwarves.

Cormacs border trilogy is great

Your list has a very tenuous link to Blood Meridian, IMHO. I feel if someone is looking for another stonking bloody western, they're not going to find it from your rather insipid list. Let me correct that with my own list of bloody westerns in the McCarthy tradition... 1) _Wraiths of the Broken Land_ by S. Craig Zahler 2) _The Thicket_ by Joe R. Landsdale 3) _Incident at Twenty-Mile_ by Trevanian 4) _Destiny, Texas_ by Brett Cogburn 5) _Where The Bullets Fly_ by Terrence McCauley 6) _Paradise Sky_ by Joe R. Landsdale 7) _The Magic Wagon_ by Joe R. Landsdale 8) _A Congregation of Jackals_ by S. Craig Zahler