12 Best westerns books like Many a River by Elmer Kelton

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Many a River

By: Elmer Kelton

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In …

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1. West of Dodge: Frontier Stories

By: Louis L'Amour

3.94

Format: 223 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Louis L'Amour's West of Dodge: Frontier Stories book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Shane

By: Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the su… read more

Similar categories in Jack Schaefer's Shane book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts."

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

"A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who …"

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

"With us he spoke freely enough. We were, in some subtle way, his folks. Though we had taken him in, you had the feeling that he had adopted us. But with others he was reserved; courteous and soft-spo…"

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

"I would think of him most vividly in that single flashing instant when he whirled to shoot Fletcher on the balcony at Grafton’s saloon. I would see again the power and grace of coordinate force beaut…"

-Jack Schaefer, Shane

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3. Dark Canyon

By: Louis L'Amour

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Leather Bound

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Similar categories in Louis L'Amour's Dark Canyon book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Company of Cowards

By: Jack Schaefer

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jared Heath led a line company in the Army of the Potomac. But then they convicted him of cowerdice… read more

Similar categories in Jack Schaefer's Company of Cowards book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Chancy

By: Louis L'Amour

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn't eaten in three days. With the front of h… read more

Similar categories in Louis L'Amour's Chancy book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. High Lonesome

By: Louis L'Amour

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when… read more

Similar categories in Louis L'Amour's High Lonesome book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Last Stand at Papago Wells

By: Louis L'Amour

3.83

Format: None pages,

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Flint

By: Louis L'Amour

5.00

Format: 384 pages,

He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of viol… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. To Tame a Land

By: Louis L'Amour , Jason Culp

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Audio CD

Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious strange… read more

Similar categories in Louis L'Amour's To Tame a Land book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Where the Long Grass Blows

By: Louis L'Amour

3.56

Format: None pages, Leather Bound

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. To Catch a King

By: Jack Higgins , Harry Patterson

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

1940. Hitler's terrifying war machine will soon roll through England, and in its wake Hitler plans … read more

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12. Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

By: Larry Tye

3.46

Format: None pages,

He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at las… read more

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13. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

By: Paul Fussell , Eugene B. Sledge

4.47

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emer… read more

Similar categories in Paul Fussell's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • war
"Kick him in the balls before he kicks you in yours"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best."

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

"Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?"

-Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

14. The Fix (Amos Decker, #3)

By: David Baldacci

4.25

Format: 194 pages,

David Baldacci's remarkable detective Amos Decker - the man who can forget nothing - was first intr… read more

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15. The Rider of the Ruby Hills

By: Louis L'Amour

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively… read more

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16. Gray Mountain

By: John Grisham

4.00

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's… read more

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17. Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4)

By: Douglas Preston

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bests… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • fiction
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

18. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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19. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The White Lady book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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20. Redemption (Amos Decker, #5)

By: David Baldacci

4.21

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly… read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's Redemption (Amos Decker, #5) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • fiction
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21. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

Similar categories in Joshua T. Calvert's The Object book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • fiction
Cover of The Kaiser's Web (Cotton Malone, #16) by Steve Berry

22. The Kaiser's Web (Cotton Malone, #16)

By: Steve Berry

4.18

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the pa… read more

Similar categories in Steve Berry's The Kaiser's Web (Cotton Malone, #16) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Book Spy

By: Alan Hlad

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Marie Benedict, and Pam Jenoff and inspired by true stories of the … read more

Similar categories in Alan Hlad's The Book Spy book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1) by John Sandford

24. The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1)

By: John Sandford

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investi… read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • fiction
Cover of Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print) by Tom Brokaw

25. Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story (Random House Large Print)

By: Tom Brokaw

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles t… read more

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Cover of The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) by Jacqueline Winspear

26. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

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27. Bloody Genius (Virgil Flowers, #12)

By: John Sandford

4.26

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war… read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Bloody Genius (Virgil Flowers, #12) book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • fiction
Cover of 'Til I Want No More by Robin W. Pearson

28. 'Til I Want No More

By: Robin W. Pearson

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

“Pearson’s excellent characters and plotting capture the complexity and beauty of family. . . . Pea… read more

Similar categories in Robin W. Pearson's 'Til I Want No More book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • fiction
Cover of The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris

29. The Edge of Lost

By: Kristina McMorris

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through … read more

Similar categories in Kristina McMorris's The Edge of Lost book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It’s fascinating, really, when you think about it. How a person can slip into a new life as one would a new pair of shoes. At first there’s a keen awareness of the fit: a stiffness at the heel, the b…"

-Kristina McMorris, The Edge of Lost

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30. Many a River

By: Elmer Kelton

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In … read more

Similar categories in Elmer Kelton's Many a River book and Elmer Kelton's Many a River

  • westerns
  • historical
  • coming of age
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of By the Neck (A Stoneface Finnegan Western #1) by William W. Johnstone

31. By the Neck (A Stoneface Finnegan Western #1)

By: William W. Johnstone

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Rollie Finnegan is a man of few words. As a Pinkerton agent with two decades of experience under hi… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

24 Best fiction books like Many a River by Elmer Kelton

Transform Your Habits

West of Dodge: Frontier Stories

Louis L'Amour

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Shane

Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Dark Canyon

Louis L'Amour

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Company of Cowards

Jack Schaefer

4.14

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21 must-read fiction books like The Investigator (Letty Davenport, #1) by John Sandford

Transform Your Habits

The Empress File (Kidd & LuEllen, #2)

John Sandford , None

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Fool's Run (Kidd & LuEllen, #1)

John Sandford , None

4.67

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Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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