Order of Chris Offutt Books

Chris Offutt is an American writer and screenwriter known for his works such as Country Dark, The Good Brother, and The Killing Hills. Born in Kentucky to an author, he was raised in a former mining community in the Appalachian Mountain foothills of eastern Kentucky. Chris attended Morehead State University, earning a degree in theater with a minor in English. Besides his writing, Offutt has experience as a screenwriter, contributing to episodes of HBO's True Blood and Showtime's Weeds.

Chris Offutt became a published novelist in 1992 with the novel Kentucky Straight. Below is a list of Chris Offutt's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Mick Hardin Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Killing Hills	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shifty’s Boys	(2022)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Code of the Hills	(2023)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Reluctant Sheriff	(2025)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Good Brother	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Country Dark	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Kentucky Straight	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Out of the Woods	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Same River Twice	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
No Heroes	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
My Father, the Pornographer	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Best American Short Stories 1994	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Granta 54	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Body	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
River Teeth	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stray Dogs	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean:Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mississippi Noir	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tales of Two Americas	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gather at the River	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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