Texas History
3. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by:
Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,021 ratings 4. 
Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
by:
William C. Davis
3.96 avg rating — 684 ratings 5. 
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
by:
Scott Zesch
4.05 avg rating — 3,950 ratings 
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Lone Star Navy: Texas, the Fight for the Gulf of Mexico, and the Shaping of the American West 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas
by:
Jack Jackson
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 15. 
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
by:
Herman Lehmann
4.17 avg rating — 4,964 ratings 
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The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days (Barker Texas History Center Series)
by:
Noah Smithwick
4.23 avg rating — 217 ratings 21. 
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
by:
Doug J. Swanson
3.90 avg rating — 810 ratings 
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Hidden Genius: Frank Mann, the Black Engineer behind Howard Hughes
by:
H.T. Bryer
4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings 27. 
Sisters of Mercy: The Runaway Scrape (#3)
by:
Sean E. Jacobs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
29. 
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
by:
Bryan Burrough
4.08 avg rating — 3,099 ratings 
32. 
Jack Jackson's American History: Los Tejanos & Lost Cause
by:
Jack Jackson
4.03 avg rating — 64 ratings 
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Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence - and Changed America
by:
H.W. Brands
4.19 avg rating — 980 ratings 36. 
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13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo (Volume 2) (Southwest Landmarks)
by:
Lon Tinkle
3.86 avg rating — 259 ratings 39. 
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery (A.C. Greene Series, No 1)
by:
A.C. Greene
3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings 40. 
Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 4.24 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and U.S. Fight for the Alamo
by:
Jeff Long
3.80 avg rating — 129 ratings 42. 
Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest (Barker Texas History Center Series)
by:
J. Frank Dobie
4.21 avg rating — 160 ratings 43. 
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Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest
by:
W.J. Hughes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 45. 
Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier
by:
James R. Arnold
3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings 46. 
A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young
by:
John D. Young
3.93 avg rating — 61 ratings 46. 
Texas Hold 'Em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad
by:
Kinky Friedman
3.51 avg rating — 201 ratings 
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I'll Die Before I'll Run: The Story of the Great Feuds of Texas
by:
C.L. Sonnichsen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 52. 
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers
by:
George Durham
4.30 avg rating — 126 ratings 53. 
53. 
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
by:
Lawrence Wright
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,876 ratings 55. 
57. 
Black Gold and Red Lights: Oil Blood and Money Flowed Freely in the Boomtown of Borger
by:
Jerry Sinise
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
59. 
The XIT Ranch: How Texas Traded Land for a State House
by:
Anne Haw Holt
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 59. 
The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Aggieland: Tales of Success from Former Texas A&m Students
by:
Rusty Burson
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 59. 
59. 
Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
by:
Joe Pappalardo
3.29 avg rating — 163 ratings 
59. 
A Bowl Of Red: A Natural History of Chili con Carne
by:
Frank X. Tolbert
4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings 59. 
Black Cowboys of Texas (Volume 86) (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University)
by:
Sara R. Massey
4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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An Illustrated History of the Texas Rangers
by:
Bern Keating
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
74. 
Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
78. 
City on Fire: The Explosion That Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle
by:
Bill Minutaglio
4.21 avg rating — 302 ratings 
81. 
Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse
by:
Trent Jones
3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings 
84. 
Why Stop?: Texas Roadside Markers: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers 4.14 avg rating — 43 ratings
86. 
Legends and Life in Texas: Folklore from the Lone Star State, In Stories and Song (Volume 72) (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings
92. 
Last Stand of the Texas Cherokees: Chief Bowles and the 1839 Cherokee War in Texas
by:
Stephen L. Moore
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
94. 
Texas Music: Legends from the Lonestar State (The Texas Series)
by:
John Morthland
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 94. 
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
by:
Erica Grieder
3.49 avg rating — 339 ratings 94. 
Ride the Wind: Story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the Last Days of the Comanche 4.39 avg rating — 6,242 ratings
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Texas Yankee: The Story of Gail Borden
by:
Nina Brown Baker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas during the Civil War (Volume 10) (War and the Southwest Series) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings