Scott McClanahan

American writer from West Virginia known for fiction and nonfiction rooted in Appalachia; author of works including The Sarah Book and Crapalachia.

This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.

  1. 1. The Sarah Book

    A raw, fragmentary first-person account of a man consumed by memories of a past lover, tracing the tender, violent, and often absurd moments that made up their life together in a small Appalachian town; the narrator weaves domestic detail, confessional rants, and hallucinatory digressions into a relentless meditation on desire, grief, addiction, masculinity, and the impossibility of reconstructing the past, producing a fiercely intimate, lyric, and sometimes brutal portrait of love’s aftershocks.

    The 17008th Greatest Book of All Time
    Purchase from Bookshop.org