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My 10 Favorite Westerns
1.
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by:
Larry McMurtry
4.56 avg rating — 222,432 ratings
2.
Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
by:
Zane Grey
3.75 avg rating — 14,363 ratings
3.
The Time It Never Rained
by:
Elmer Kelton
4.32 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
4.
The Sisters Brothers
by:
Patrick deWitt
3.85 avg rating — 101,551 ratings
5.
The Big Sky
by:
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.01 avg rating — 5,628 ratings
6.
Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)
by:
Larry McMurtry
4.14 avg rating — 19,436 ratings
7.
Shane
by:
Jack Schaefer
3.95 avg rating — 14,381 ratings
8.
The Virginian
by:
Owen Wister
3.91 avg rating — 9,788 ratings
9.
Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)
by:
Robert B. Parker
4.01 avg rating — 9,114 ratings
10.
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by:
Larry McMurtry
4.09 avg rating — 23,945 ratings
11.
Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3)
by:
Larry McMurtry
4.05 avg rating — 22,434 ratings
12.
Ever the Wayward Sky
by:
Oliver Phipps
4.59 avg rating — 169 ratings
13.
Buffalo Girls
by:
Larry McMurtry
3.69 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
14.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
by:
Cormac McCarthy
4.16 avg rating — 204,556 ratings
15.
The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway, #1)
by:
Elmer Kelton
4.34 avg rating — 932 ratings
16.
Arrow in the Sun
by:
Theodore V. Olsen
4.07 avg rating — 152 ratings
17.
Doc
by:
Mary Doria Russell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,363 ratings
18.
Waco's Debt (Floating Outfit, #50)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.27 avg rating — 258 ratings
19.
The Searchers
by:
Alan LeMay
4.21 avg rating — 4,052 ratings
19.
The Last Picture Show
by:
Larry McMurtry
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,489 ratings
21.
The Ox-Bow Incident
by:
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
3.87 avg rating — 6,523 ratings
21.
The Ysabel Kid (Floating Outfit, #1)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.30 avg rating — 727 ratings
23.
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by:
Cormac McCarthy
4.05 avg rating — 140,317 ratings
24.
Winter Harvest
by:
Norah Lofts
3.98 avg rating — 90 ratings
25.
Vengeance and Grace: Two Roads Travelled
by:
Daniel R. Holladay
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
25.
Long Road To Abilene (Cade McCall #1)
by:
Robert Vaughan
4.29 avg rating — 1,539 ratings
25.
Armed Men and Armadillos
by:
John Earl Sharp
4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
25.
The Bastard Boys of Montezuma
by:
Jaromy Henry
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
25.
Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill (One Thousand White Women, #3)
by:
Jim Fergus
4.03 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
25.
Hanging Fire (Joe Noose #2)
by:
Eric Red
3.80 avg rating — 56 ratings
25.
Legend of the Horizon Vengeance (The Two Revolvers Saga, #2)
by:
Dave Matthes
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
32.
The Rushers (Floating Outfit, #42)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.24 avg rating — 181 ratings
32.
West Of The War (The Montana Series)
by:
L.J. Martin
4.43 avg rating — 570 ratings
32.
The Bitter Harvest
by:
Oliver Phipps
4.65 avg rating — 136 ratings
32.
Riders to Cibola
by:
Norman Zollinger
4.04 avg rating — 84 ratings
32.
Noose (Joe Noose #1)
by:
Eric Red
3.90 avg rating — 108 ratings
32.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
by:
Joseph Alexander Altsheler
3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings
32.
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
by:
Cormac McCarthy
4.16 avg rating — 45,431 ratings
39.
The Drifter (Waco, #5)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.36 avg rating — 201 ratings
39.
The Lawmen
by:
Robert Vaughan
3.96 avg rating — 286 ratings
39.
Valdez Is Coming: A Novel
by:
Elmore Leonard
4.06 avg rating — 3,305 ratings
39.
The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)
by:
Craig Johnson
4.30 avg rating — 20,906 ratings
43.
Trigger Fast
by:
J.T. Edson
4.27 avg rating — 282 ratings
43.
The Legend of Ben Tree
by:
Paul A. Hawkins
3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
43.
Open Range
by:
Lauran Paine
4.17 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
43.
Our Time In The Sun
by:
John D. McLaughlin
4.20 avg rating — 82 ratings
47.
Hannahs Gift
by:
Thomas Eidson
4.04 avg rating — 75 ratings
47.
Riders of Judgement (Danny Duggin, #3)
by:
Ralph Compton
4.20 avg rating — 245 ratings
47.
Zeke and Ned
by:
Larry McMurtry
3.86 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
47.
Cuchilo (Floating Outfit, #22)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.19 avg rating — 216 ratings
47.
The Devil's Gunslinger
by:
Chet Cunningham
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings
52.
Troubled Range
by:
J.T. Edson
3.94 avg rating — 230 ratings
52.
From Where the Sun Now Stands
by:
Will Henry
4.20 avg rating — 85 ratings
52.
Eye For Eye
by:
L.J. Martin
4.23 avg rating — 188 ratings
52.
Texas Rifles and Massacre at Goliad
by:
Elmer Kelton
4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
56.
Six Bits a Day
by:
Elmer Kelton
4.15 avg rating — 443 ratings
56.
Justice of Company Z (Alvin Dustine 'Cap' Fog, #3)
by:
J.T. Edson
3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
56.
Riders to Cibola
by:
Norman Zollinger
4.04 avg rating — 84 ratings
56.
A Town Called Yellowdog (Floating Outfit, #23)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.27 avg rating — 262 ratings
56.
Texas Glory
by:
Robert Vaughan
4.27 avg rating — 104 ratings
56.
Boone's Lick
by:
Larry McMurtry
3.84 avg rating — 3,809 ratings
62.
The Smiling Country
by:
Elmer Kelton
4.31 avg rating — 473 ratings
62.
Arizona Ranger
by:
J.T. Edson
4.21 avg rating — 179 ratings
62.
Gone the Dreams and Dancing
by:
Douglas C. Jones
4.19 avg rating — 48 ratings
62.
Trail Boss (Floating Outfit, #10)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.38 avg rating — 407 ratings
62.
Mr. Pettigrew (The Nemesis Series, #2)
by:
L.J. Martin
4.29 avg rating — 394 ratings
62.
Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives, #1)
by:
Larry McMurtry
3.67 avg rating — 5,643 ratings
62.
Honey in the Horn
by:
H.L. Davis
3.56 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
69.
Season of Yellow Leaf
by:
Douglas C. Jones
4.13 avg rating — 100 ratings
69.
Nemesis (The Nemesis Series, #1)
by:
L.J. Martin
4.21 avg rating — 517 ratings
69.
The Son
by:
Philipp Meyer
4.03 avg rating — 37,219 ratings
72.
Monte Walsh
by:
Jack Schaefer
4.36 avg rating — 809 ratings
72.
Watch for Me on the Mountain
by:
Forrest Carter
4.25 avg rating — 597 ratings
72.
Set Texas Back on Her Feet (Floating Outfit, #6)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.08 avg rating — 294 ratings
72.
A Gun for Braggs' Woman
by:
Steve Frazee
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
76.
Under the Stars and Bars (Civil War, #5)
by:
J.T. Edson
4.15 avg rating — 182 ratings
76.
The Covered Wagon
by:
Emerson Hough
3.62 avg rating — 114 ratings
78.
The Heritage of the Desert
by:
Zane Grey
3.96 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
79.
Fire on the Mountain
by:
Edward Abbey
3.99 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
80.
Keowee Valley
by:
Katherine Scott Crawford
3.90 avg rating — 226 ratings
80.
Sacajawea
by:
Anna Lee Waldo
4.25 avg rating — 16,317 ratings
82.
Filaree: A Novel of an American Woman
by:
Marguerite Noble
3.72 avg rating — 120 ratings
83.
Ride the Wind: Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche
by:
Lucia St. Clair Robson
4.39 avg rating — 6,242 ratings
84.
Dream West
by:
David Nevin
4.09 avg rating — 233 ratings
85.
Some Went West
by:
Dorothy M. Johnson
3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
86.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The Best Stories of the American West
by:
Dorothy M. Johnson
3.99 avg rating — 276 ratings
87.
Fair Land, Fair Land (The Big Sky, #3)
by:
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.07 avg rating — 515 ratings
88.
These Thousand Hills
by:
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
3.81 avg rating — 421 ratings
89.
The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)
by:
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
4.01 avg rating — 5,628 ratings
90.
The Pride of Hannah Wade
by:
Janet Dailey
3.79 avg rating — 310 ratings
90.
The Way West
by:
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
3.96 avg rating — 5,782 ratings
92.
The Great Alone
by:
Janet Dailey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
93.
This Calder Sky (Calder Saga, #3)
by:
Janet Dailey
4.27 avg rating — 2,037 ratings