Lists featuring The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel

• Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 edition)"
• Harold Bloom's "The Western Canon"
• WORLD Magazine's "Western Culture's Top 50 Books"
• WORLD Magazine's "The century's top 100 books"
• American Book Review's "100 Best First Lines from Novels"
• kris10s's "Books To Read in 2006"
• Sebastian Rivas's "Books that I pass by"
• Inditra's "Books in Progress"