Most of the following western novels are often listed as classics. Since I have put the ones that I've read in bold, you can see that I am way behind.
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Wonderful Country by Tom Lea
- The Virginian by Owen Wister
- The Travels of Jamie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge
- Hombre by Elmore Leonard
- Take of Valor by Vardis Fisher
- Outlawed by Anna North
- The Outrider by Luke Short
- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
- The Sackett Brand by Louis L'Amour
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Valdez is Coming by Elmore Leonard
- Desperadoes by Ron Hansen
- The Hell Bent Kid by Charles O. Locke
- Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow
- The Way West by A.B. Guthrie
- The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie
- The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Shane by Jack Shaefer
- Hondo by Louis L'Amour
- The Searchers by Alan Le May
- Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
- Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
- The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
- Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
- Centennial by James Michener
- The Shootist by Glen Swarthout
- The Son by Philipp Meyer
- El Paso by Winston Groom
- The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin
- Gone to Texas by Asa Earl Carter
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Monte Walsh by Jack Shaefer
- The Revenant by Michael Punke
- Wild Times by Brian Garfield
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2 comments:
Lonesome Dove is phenomenal. I should read more of his.
Embarrassed to admit that is the only one on your list I've read.
Lonesome Dove is probably the best western ever written. [They also did a good job with the film version.] Don't miss reading True Grit and News of the World.
Michael
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