What to Read After True Grit
Readers who loved True Grit by Charles Portis keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where True Grit is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after True Grit
No Country for Old Men
Little Big Man
Hondo
Shane
The Searchers
The Shootist
Dog of the South
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Virginian
Butcher's Crossing
Warlock
Deadwood
The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard
Norwood
All the Pretty Horses
The Sisters Brothers
Child of God
The Crossing
Winter's Bone
Suttree
Cities of the Plain
Outer Dark
Blood Meridian