6 Top westerns books like All God's Children by Aaron Gwyn

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All God's Children

By: Aaron Gwyn

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in…

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1. Last Bus to Wisdom

By: Ivan Doig

4.08

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmot… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Mysterious Skin

By: Scott Heim

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endur… read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Heart of the Country

By: Greg Matthews

4.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Outcast and wanderer, Joe Cobden, a half-breed hunchback, becomes Joe Buffalo, famed Kansas buffalo… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Querencia

By: Stephen J. Bodio

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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  • westerns

5. Follow the River

By: James Alexander Thom

3.76

Format: 208 pages,

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virg… read more

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6. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

By: Norman Maclean

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more

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7. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

By: Lawrence S. Ritter

5.00

Format: 299 pages,

From the Preface: This new enlarged edition of The Glory of Their Times contains the complete text … read more

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8. Painted Horses

By: Malcolm Brooks

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to t… read more

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9. Live by Night (Coughlin, #2)

By: Dennis Lehane

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, … read more

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10. American Boy

By: Larry Watson

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Esquire Top 9 Books of the Year Midwest Booksellers Choice Award Finalist BooklistEditor's Choice 2… read more

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11. The Ploughmen

By: Kim Zupan

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first… read more

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12. The Absolutist

By: John Boyne

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the mo… read more

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13. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

By: David Maraniss

4.02

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more

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14. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

Similar categories in Steve Inskeep's Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America book and Aaron Gwyn's All God's Children

  • historical
  • civil war
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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15. Above the Fire

By: Michael O'Donnell

3.98

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

O'Donnell's debut, Above the Fire, is a novel which finds hope and resilience in the timelessness o… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Walking with Ghosts

By: Gabriel Byrne

4.11

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of ima… read more

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"So the days passed into weeks and the weeks into months, and gradually she too faded until many years later when I came across a photograph of us together on a hillside in Greece, our only holiday. A…"

-Gabriel Byrne, Walking with Ghosts

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17. Till the Old Men Die (Jeri Howard Mystery, #2)

By: Janet Dawson

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Feisty female sleuth Jeri Howard comes back after Kindred Crimes (named Best First Private Eye Nove… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Ruthie Fear

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

In Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature … read more

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  • westerns
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. All God's Children

By: Aaron Gwyn

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Gwyn's All God's Children book and Aaron Gwyn's All God's Children

  • adult fiction
  • race
  • lgbt
  • westerns
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Tannery Bay

By: Steven Dunn

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Enter a world where time stands still and summer never ends. In the enchanted town of Tannery Bay, … read more

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  • fiction
  • lgbt
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21. The Blood of My Mother: a powerful historical saga about family, race and overcoming adversity

By: Roccie Hill

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Ivan Doig

4.08

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Scott Heim

3.87

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Heart of the Country

Greg Matthews

4.47

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Michael O'Donnell

3.98

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Amy Fillion

4.24

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The Only Way Home

Jeanette Minniti

4.21

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4.25

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4.21

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