5 must-read westerns books like Borderlands: Short Fictions by James Carlos Blake

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Borderlands: Short Fictions

By: James Carlos Blake

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The award-winning author of In the Rogue Blood presents a collection of eight pieces of short ficti…

"Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map."

-James Carlos Blake, Borderlands: Short Fictions

"Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map."

-James Carlos Blake, Borderlands: Short Fictions

If you liked the westerns plot in Borderlands: Short Fictions by James Carlos Blake , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Crown in the Heather (The Bruce Trilogy, #1) by N. Gemini Sasson

1. The Crown in the Heather (The Bruce Trilogy, #1)

By: N. Gemini Sasson

3.69

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here. In 1290, Scotland is without a king. Two fam… read more

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  • fiction
"What irony that in these months since I've been king, not for a day have I lived like one."

-N. Gemini Sasson, The Crown in the Heather (The Bruce Trilogy, #1)

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2. Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

By: James Lee Burke

4.16

Format: 366 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book #3 from the series: Dave Robicheaux BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Hau… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton."

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

". . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon beco…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

"The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

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3. Wraiths of the Broken Land

By: S. Craig Zahler

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
Cover of Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11) by John D. MacDonald

4. Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

"To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the o… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11) book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Galveston

By: Nic Pizzolatto

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, a dark and v… read more

Similar categories in Nic Pizzolatto's Galveston book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction

6. The Heavenly Table

By: Donald Ray Pollock

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Timeand Knockemstiff, com… read more

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7. The Moonshine War

By: Elmore Leonard

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was Prohibition, and a big, hell-raising Son Martin had himself something special: $125,000 wort… read more

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8. Hardscrabble Road

By: George Weinstein

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

The entire MacLeod clan is haunted by secrets - and young Roger "Bud" MacLeod doesn't realize he ca… read more

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9. The Force

By: Don Winslow

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel--voted one of the Best Books of the … read more

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10. Stormy Weather

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

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11. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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12. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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13. The Devil and the Dark Water

By: Stuart Turton

3.84

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samu… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Turton's The Devil and the Dark Water book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
"Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"You’re as dense as the mountains you were carved out of."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's the light we find when fear is all there is."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Marriage is an inconvenient convenience. It’s the shackle we accept for our safety."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

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14. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • westerns
  • fiction
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15. Eventide: A Novel of the Southern Appalachians

By: Terri Fabel

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eventide is a story about the deep and abiding love two sister have for each other as they struggle… read more

Similar categories in Terri Fabel's Eventide: A Novel of the Southern Appalachians book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

16. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
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17. The Bad Angel Brothers

By: Paul Theroux

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An evocative novel about two brothers whose rivalry as youths in the Massachusetts town of Littlefo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Theroux's The Bad Angel Brothers book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • fiction
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18. A Thousand Steps

By: T. Jefferson Parker

3.67

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A Thousand Steps is a gripping thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of t… read more

Similar categories in T. Jefferson Parker's A Thousand Steps book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0) by Ken Follett

19. The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

By: Ken Follett

4.39

Format: 913 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a ne… read more

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  • fiction
"the enlightenment of mankind."

-Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

"La tormenta que había estallado en su corazón amainó ligeramente. La penumbra y el frescor del interior, entre los imponentes muros de piedra, le hicieron sentir la trascendencia de la eternidad. Los…"

-Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)

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20. The Last Green Valley

By: Mark T. Sullivan

4.49

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the #1 bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by… read more

Similar categories in Mark T. Sullivan's The Last Green Valley book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • fiction
Cover of Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon

21. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

Similar categories in Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • fiction
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

Cover of Every Cloak Rolled in Blood (Holland Family Saga, #4) by James Lee Burke

22. Every Cloak Rolled in Blood (Holland Family Saga, #4)

By: James Lee Burke

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga … read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Every Cloak Rolled in Blood (Holland Family Saga, #4) book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

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

23. 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 James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • fiction
Cover of The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) by Chris Offutt

24. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

By: Chris Offutt

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
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25. The Unwilling

By: John Hart

4.15

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and seari… read more

Similar categories in John Hart's The Unwilling book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda

26. Sing Her Down

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-w… read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's Sing Her Down book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • westerns
  • crime
  • fiction
"If we could avenge people for their personalities, we'd all be in trouble."

-Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down

Cover of The Border (Power of the Dog, #3) by Don Winslow

27. The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.47

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bes… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's The Border (Power of the Dog, #3) book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Return to Hardscrabble Road by George Weinstein

28. Return to Hardscrabble Road

By: George Weinstein

4.17

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

“Atmospheric, intense, and beautiful.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in George Weinstein's Return to Hardscrabble Road book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

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29. On Java Road

By: Lawrence Osborne

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A veteran journalist in Hong Kong is caught in a shadowy web of tr… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Osborne's On Java Road book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Take No Names by Daniel Nieh

30. Take No Names

By: Daniel Nieh

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting thriller about a fugitive in search of a quick payday in Mexico City who finds himself i… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Nieh's Take No Names book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Borderlands: Short Fictions by James Carlos Blake

31. Borderlands: Short Fictions

By: James Carlos Blake

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The award-winning author of In the Rogue Blood presents a collection of eight pieces of short ficti… read more

Similar categories in James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions book and James Carlos Blake's Borderlands: Short Fictions

  • westerns
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
"Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map."

-James Carlos Blake, Borderlands: Short Fictions

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