Cormac McCarthy

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1965
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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About the Author

Cormac McCarthy passed away in June 2023

Full Series List in Order

Border Trilogy

1 - All the Pretty Horses (May-1992)
2 - The Crossing (Jun-1994)
3 - Cities of the Plain (Apr-1998)

The Passenger

1 - The Passenger (Nov-2022)
2 - Stella Maris (Dec-2022)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • The Orchard Keeper

    The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning novel The Road ā€¢ Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world war...

  • Outer Dark

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    From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning novel The Road ā€¢ A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bear...

  • Child of God

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    In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid as...

  • The Gardener's Son

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    The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift -- the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significanceIn the spring of 1975 the film director Richar...

  • Suttree

    From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee ...

  • Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West

    An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the T...

  • All the Pretty Horses

    Border Trilogy - 1

    The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever i...

  • The Stonemason

    The Stonemason is a profoundly moving drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, concerning several generations of a black family. McCarthy's narrator, Ben, reveals a painful episode in his family's history, grounding us at the same time in t...

  • The Crossing

    Border Trilogy - 2

    In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American ...



  • Cities of the Plain

    Border Trilogy - 3

    VOLUME THREE OF "THE BORDER TRILOGY" In Cities of the Plain , two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country c...

  • No Country for Old Men

    In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good o...

  • The Sunset Limited

    From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning novel The Road ā€¢ A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In ...

  • The Road

    A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

    A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stone...

  • The Passenger

    The Passenger - 1

    The best-selling, Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy be...

  • Stella Maris

    The Passenger - 2

    The best-selling, Pulitzer Prizeā€"winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to unders...

  • The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

    The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet The story of a nameless fathe...

Award-Winning Books by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses
1992 National Book Award -- Fiction
1992 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction
1993 Reading the West -- Fiction
The Road
2007 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
2007 Quill Award -- General Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cormac McCarthy has published 16 books.

The next book by Cormac McCarthy, The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, was published in May 1965.

Yes. Cormac McCarthy has 2 series.
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