16 Top westerns books like Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road by Michael Blake

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Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road

By: Michael Blake

4.42

Format: 642 pages, Kindle Edition

The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, together …

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Cover of The Virginian (Scribner Classics) by Owen Wister, Gary Scharnhorst

1. The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

By: Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!"

-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

"For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known."

-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

"Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible."

-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."

-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

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2. Papillon

By: Henri Charrière

4.23

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris i… read more

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"The important thing was that we were alive..."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

"You don't have to be a graduate of Saint-Cyr to know that all wrecks end up on shore."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

"Everybody was stark naked, day and night. Luckily it was hot. They let me wear socks."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

"My heart was flooded with warmth: at last I had escaped from the road down the drain, and now it was for good."

-Henri Charrière, Papillon

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3. Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.12

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had be…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"Buffalo Hump wanted to see the ocean because the ocean would always be as it was. Few things could stay forever in the way they were when the spirits made them. Even the great plains of grass, the ho…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

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4. Hondo

By: Louis L'Amour

4.06

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the A… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."

-Louis L'Amour, Hondo

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5. Shalako

By: Louis L'Amour

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

He rode wild country with wilder men. He was a loner who owned nothing but his horse and saddle-and… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers."

-Louis L'Amour, Shalako

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6. 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

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  • westerns
  • 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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7. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

By: Lew Wallace

4.03

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th cen… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"In warning there is strength."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"The enemy of man is man, my brother."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"Knowledge leaves no room for chances."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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8. The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

By: A.B. Guthrie Jr.

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Origin… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had lived a man's life, and now it was at an end, and what had he to show for it? Two horses and a few fixin's and a letter of credit for three hundred and forty-three dollars. That was all, unles…"

-A.B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky (The Big Sky, #1)

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9. The Searchers

By: Alan LeMay

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

On the Texas frontier, a Comanche war party attacks the Edwards ranch and kills all the inhabitants… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #3: Valdez is Coming & Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Valdez, the town constable, killed an innocent man after being set up by a wealthy landowner. Now V… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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11. Mountain Man

By: Vardis Fisher

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press A classic in Amer… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)

By: Robert Holdstock

3.77

Format: 341 pages,

The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's en… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) by James Fenimore Cooper

13. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

By: James Fenimore Cooper

3.70

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

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14. Buffalo Woman

By: Dorothy M. Johnson

4.33

Format: 260 pages,

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15. Massacre

By: James Warner Bellah

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

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  • westerns
  • fiction
Cover of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

16. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Unforgiven

By: Alan LeMay

3.99

Format: 380 pages,

The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get by. Un… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

19. Resolution (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #2)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.91

Format: 631 pages,

The "New York Times"?bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful ta… read more

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20. Man Called Horse

By: Dorothy M. Johnson

4.00

Format: None pages,

Indian Country contains two of Dorothy M. JohnsonThese eleven stories show a frontier alive with co… read more

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21. Genghis: Lords of the Bow (Conqueror, #2)

By: Conn Iggulden

3.67

Format: None pages,

Genghis unites Mongol tribes to cross the Gobi Desert and fight the Chin - gleaming cities, soaring… read more

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22. The Hanging Tree

By: Dorothy M. Johnson

3.83

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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23. Streets of Laredo

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Loneso… read more

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24. The Corfu Trilogy (The Corfu Trilogy #1-3)

By: Gerald Durrell

4.00

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The Corfu Trilogy consists of the popular classic My Family and Other Animals and its delightful se… read more

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25. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

26. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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27. The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793

By: Niklas Natt och Dag

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 The year is 1793, Stockholm. King G… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Ridgeline

By: Michael Punke

4.28

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant. … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Third Wheel

By: Nick Spalding

3.72

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

In this madcap tale from the bestselling author of Dumped, Actually, two’s company for Jake and his… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of El pistolero & Llegaron a Cordura by Glendon Swarthout

30. El pistolero & Llegaron a Cordura

By: Glendon Swarthout

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

El presente volumen reúne las dos novelas western más populares de Swarthout: El pistolero (1975) y… read more

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  • westerns
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31. Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road

By: Michael Blake

4.42

Format: 642 pages, Kindle Edition

The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, together … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

23 must-read fiction books like Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road by Michael Blake

Transform Your Habits

The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

Larry McMurtry

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Hondo

Louis L'Amour

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Shalako

Louis L'Amour

4.06

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11 best-selling fiction books like The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay

Transform Your Habits

The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Hondo

Louis L'Amour

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

4.23

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Shane

Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

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