What are the top suggestions for books matching 'sparse and stark'?
We found 61 book recommendations
What do readers say about The Road?
propulsive and never meanders sparse and stark bleak and grim plain and poeticNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. I... More details on The Road
When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone be...
See 3471 Book Recommendations like The Road
What do readers say about Outer Dark?
sparse and stark minimalist and brutal darkly evocative novel surprising, penetrating, beautiful proseOuter Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natura... More details on Outer Dark
She shook him awake from dark to dark, delivered out of the clamorous rabble under a black sun and into a night more dolorous, sitting upright and cursing beneath his breath in the bed he shared with ...
See 652 Book Recommendations like Outer Dark
What do readers say about The Buddha in the Attic?
1st person plural first person plural narration first-person everywoman memoir narrative in natureNATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Award Finalist
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
The acclaimed author of When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" a century ago... More details on The Buddha in the Attic
On the boat we were mostly virgins. We had long black hair and flat wide feet and we were not very tall. Some of us had eaten nothing but rice gruel as young girls and had slightly bowed legs, and som...
See 55 Book Recommendations like The Buddha in the Attic
What do readers say about Night?
simple, stark prose cut and dried terror simple and spare heart wrenching bookIt is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experiences the loss of everything he loves - home, friends, family - in an agonizing journey through Birke... More details on Night
THEY CALLED HIM MOISHE THE BEADLE, as if his entire life he had never had a surname. He was the jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer, a shtibl. The Jews of Sighet—the little town in Transyl...
See 1301 Book Recommendations like Night
What do readers say about The Hunter?
well written classic noir hard-boiled novel a full-on action storyShe shot him just above the belt and left him for dead. Then they torched the house, with Parker in it, and took the money he had helped them steal. It all went down just the way they'd planned, except for one thing: Parker didn't die.
In The Hunter,... More details on The Hunter
WHEN a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell. The guy said, "Screw you, buddy," yanked his Chevy back into the stream of traffic, and roared on down to the tollb...
See 327 Book Recommendations like The Hunter
What do readers say about Blood Meridian?
gritty and gruesome macabre magical realism profound and intense lyrical and dark proseAn 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 ... More details on Blood Meridian
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few ...
See 3331 Book Recommendations like Blood Meridian
What do readers say about My Name Is Lucy Barton?
simplicity and realism her family of origin grinding poverty and love stream of consciousness#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.
Soon to be a Bro... More details on My Name Is Lucy Barton
There was a time, and it was many years ago now, when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks. This was in New York City, and at night a view of the Chrysler Building, with its geometric bri...
See 73 Book Recommendations like My Name Is Lucy Barton
What do readers say about The Handle?
a quarter million bucks no nonsense approach another good adventure how he got thereIn The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. With double-crosses and double-dealings from the word go, Parker knows the line between success and failur... More details on The Handle
WHEN the engine stopped, Parker came up on deck for a look around. The mainland was nearly out of sight now, just a grey smudge on the horizon between the dark blue of the water and the lighter blue o...
See 5 Book Recommendations like The Handle
What do readers say about No Country for Old Men?
west texas twang dialogue sparse and unsettling prose style and dialog cruel, cruel novelIn 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 old b... More details on No Country for Old Men
I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his exe...
See 1231 Book Recommendations like No Country for Old Men
What do readers say about The Vegetarian?
dark and brutal dark, joyless novel purity and simplicity dark and unsettlingWinner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review
Publisher's Weekly
Buzzfeed ... More details on The Vegetarian
The deep oxblood curtain fell over the stage. The dancers waved their hands so vigorously the whole row became a blur of movement, with individual figures impossible to make out. Though the applause w...
See 1129 Book Recommendations like The Vegetarian
Please Help Us Improve
Lost? We also have a list of your Recent Book Views
Are You An Author?
When you click the Amazon link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commision, at no cost to you.