24 Best Western Books
Goal: Find the best Western books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best western books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
24 Best Western Books
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage, Book 1
by Zane Grey
Also recommended by:
Hondo
A Novel
by Louis L'Amour
The Son
by Philipp Meyer
El Paso
A Novel
by Winston Groom
Little Big Man
A Novel
by Thomas Berger
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A Novel
by Ron Hansen
The Searchers
by Alan Le May
Blood Meridian
Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
Also recommended by:
All the Pretty Horses
The Border Trilogy, Book 1
by Cormac McCarthy
Close Range
Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx
Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Ántonia
Great Plains Trilogy, Book 3
by Willa Cather
Ramrod
by Luke Short
Shane
by Jack Schaefer
Smoky the Cowhorse
by Will James
The Dark Tower I
The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
The Longhorns
by J. Frank Dobie
The Ox-Bow Incident
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Shootist
by Glendon Swarthout
The Time It Never Rained
by Elmer Kelton
The Virginian
by Owen Wister
Sources
- 1
Best Western Books of All Time
earlybirdbooks.com
- 2
Best western books
pennbookcenter.com
- 3
20130607top 10 western books 24429
americancowboy.com
- 4
21 Western Novels Every Man Should Read | The Art of Manliness
artofmanliness.com
- 5
The 23 Best Western Books, From 'Lonesome Dove' to 'Outlawed'
businessinsider.com
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