Cormac McCarthy Books in Order

This graphic novel adaptation of The Road turns the journey of a father and son through a ruined, ash-choked America into stark panels, capturing their constant search for food, shelter, and a reason to keep moving in a world gone silent.

Salvage diver Bobby Western descends to a crashed jet off the Gulf Coast and finds a missing passenger and flight recorder, drawing the attention of shadowy investigators as he drifts from New Orleans across the South, haunted by his brilliant, troubled sister Alicia.

In 1972, twenty-year-old mathematics prodigy Alicia Western checks herself into the remote psychiatric clinic called Stella Maris, where searching conversations with her psychiatrist circle her work, her hallucinated companions, her love for her brother, and her growing desire to disappear.

A successful lawyer known only as the Counselor risks a quick score by backing a gigantic drug shipment along the U.S.–Mexico border, only to discover how quickly the cartels turn on him when things go wrong and innocence offers no protection.

After pulling a stranger away from an oncoming train, an ex-con named Black brings the suicidal professor he calls White back to his small New York apartment, where a long, searching conversation pits faith against nihilism and asks whether life is worth living.

In a burned, ash-covered America, a father and his young son push a grocery cart south along ruined highways, scavenging for food and trying to avoid roving bands of cannibals while clinging to the fragile hope that they still "carry the fire."

While hunting in the Texas desert, Llewelyn Moss stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong and a satchel of cash, drawing the relentless hitman Anton Chigurh and weary sheriff Ed Tom Bell into a deadly chase across the borderlands.

On a struggling New Mexico cattle ranch in the 1950s, cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham share hard work and close friendship, until John Grady falls for a young woman in Ciudad Juárez and their plans collide with a violent underworld.

Based on a real 19th‑century murder, this screenplay follows Robert McEvoy, an injured mill worker’s son in Graniteville, South Carolina, whose simmering anger at the ruthless Gregg family explodes into violence and a gripping courtroom reckoning.

In Louisville, Kentucky, Ben Telfair abandons college to join his grandfather and father in the family stonemasonry trade, narrating three turbulent years as debt, betrayal, and buried secrets threaten to break apart the tight-knit Black family he’s trying to hold together.

Teenage rancher Billy Parham traps a pregnant she-wolf in New Mexico and, instead of killing her, leads her back toward the mountains of Mexico, a choice that sets off a series of perilous journeys marked by family loss, loyalty, and exile.

After his Texas ranch is sold, sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole rides south into Mexico with his friend Rawlins, chasing the old cowboy life and falling into a dangerous love affair that tests his ideals about honor, loyalty, and home.

Following a runaway known only as the kid, this brutal frontier epic tracks a historical gang of scalp hunters across the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, where senseless massacres and the enigmatic Judge Holden force him to confront the nature of violence itself.

Choosing exile from his well-off Knoxville family, Cornelius Suttree lives on a houseboat on the Tennessee River, scraping by as a fisherman and drifting among outcasts, drunks, and petty criminals while wrestling with grief, guilt, and the pull of his past.

Lester Ballard, a dispossessed loner in rural Tennessee, drifts farther outside society after losing his family home, his violence and obsessions growing more extreme as he retreats into caves and confronts the darkest corners of human loneliness.

In a bleak Appalachian landscape, Rinthy Holme sets out to find the baby her brother Culla abandoned in the woods, while Culla wanders from town to town haunted by guilt and shadowed by a trio of mysterious, violent men.

In an isolated Tennessee community between the world wars, young John Wesley Rattner, bootlegger Marion Sylder, and aging orchard keeper Arthur Ownby circle one another, unaware of the crime that secretly links them and the changes creeping into their mountain hollow.