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Books like Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: what to read next, and why.
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The Road
McCarthy's later, sparser book, with the same fixation on violence but a tender father-and-son centre.
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Lonesome Dove
Another western epic that treats the same era with warmth and humour rather than horror.
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Heart of Darkness
Another novel in which a charismatic, terrifying figure embodies the moral emptiness of conquest.