16 must-read westerns books like Bridal Journey by Dale Van Every

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Bridal Journey

By: Dale Van Every

3.94

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

1778 The Rich Ohio Wilderness purchased with men's blood and women's tears. As the wedding party …

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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
  • 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. Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: 193 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical fiction
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3. 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
  • 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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4. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

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"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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5. 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
  • 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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6. 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
  • 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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7. 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
  • historical fiction
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8. 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
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9. The Last Ride

By: Thomas Eidson

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his da… read more

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  • westerns
  • historical fiction
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10. 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
  • historical fiction
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11. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more

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12. Buffalo Woman

By: Dorothy M. Johnson

4.33

Format: 260 pages,

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  • historical fiction
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13. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his … read more

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14. Don't Look Now and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more

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"It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordina…"

-Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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15. Josey Wales: Two Westerns

By: Forrest Carter

4.30

Format: None pages,

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  • westerns
  • historical fiction

16. Massacre

By: James Warner Bellah

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

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  • westerns
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17. 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
  • 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
  • historical fiction

19. Bugles in the Afternoon

By: Ernest Haycox , Richard W. Etulain

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rumors of a campaign against Sitting Bull cut through the ranks like a cold wind. Who would lead th… 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. Adobe Walls

By: W.R. Burnett

4.15

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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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. The Bounty Hunters

By: Elmore Leonard

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant … read more

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24. Mrs. March

By: Virginia Feito

3.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mrs. March? A twenty-first-century Highsmith, Virginia Feito conjures the unforgettable M… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Although, really, what was wrong with lamps?"

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

"After all, how many coincidences can one women overlook?"

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

"La culpa era cosa d evalientes. La negación era para el resto."

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

"La culpa era cosa de valientes. La negación era para el resto."

-Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

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25. Blizzard

By: Marie Vingtras

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A runaway bestseller about a boy gone missing in the middle of an Alaskan blizzard, and the people … read more

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26. The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)

By: John Connolly

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker’s hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes … read more

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27. Godspeed

By: Nickolas Butler

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award For the right price, you'd risk your life. Would… read more

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"America is the greatest country in the world, his father always used to tell him, as long as you don't run out of money."

-Nickolas Butler, Godspeed

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28. 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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29. Los cautivos y otros relatos del oeste

By: Elmore Leonard

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

La película Los cautivos, dirigida en 1957 por Budd Boetticher y protagonizada por Randolph Scott, … read more

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  • westerns
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30. Bridal Journey

By: Dale Van Every

3.94

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

1778 The Rich Ohio Wilderness purchased with men's blood and women's tears. As the wedding party … read more

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  • westerns
  • historical fiction
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31. La riada (Blackwater, #1)

By: Michael McDowell

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more

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  • historical fiction

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The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst

3.91

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Elmore Leonard

3.95

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Hondo

Louis L'Amour

4.06

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Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

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3.00

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Eva Baltasar

3.58

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Ramón Gener

3.61

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Jacobo Bergareche

3.71

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