8 must-read westerns books like The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey

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The Desert of Wheat

By: Zane Grey

3.71

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Nor…

"Soon he would be walking a beat in one of the training camps, with a bugle call in his ears and the turmoil of thousands of soldiers in the making around him; soon, too, he would be walking the deck of a transport.....feeling under his feet the soil of a foreign country, with hideous and incomparable war shrieking its shell furies and its man anguish all about him."

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

"Soon he would be walking a beat in one of the training camps, with a bugle call in his ears and the turmoil of thousands of soldiers in the making around him; soon, too, he would be walking the deck of a transport.....feeling under his feet the soil of a foreign country, with hideous and incomparable war shrieking its shell furies and its man anguish all about him."

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

"The rugged fallow ground under her feet seemed to her to be a symbol of faith — faith that winter would come and pass — the spring sun and rain would burst the seeds of wheat — and another summer would see the golden fields of waving grain. If she did not live to see them, they would be there just the same; and so life and nature had faith in its promise. That strange whisper was to Lenore the whisper of God."

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

"The rugged fallow ground under her feet seemed to her to be a symbol of faith — faith that winter would come and pass — the spring sun and rain would burst the seeds of wheat — and another summer would see the golden fields of waving grain. If she did not live to see them, they would be there just the same; and so life and nature had faith in its promise. That strange whisper was to Lenore the whisper of God."

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

If you liked the westerns plot in The Desert of Wheat by Zane Grey , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Third Degree

By: Greg Iles

3.84

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the gravest dangers -- and the darkest souls -- live right beside us.... In the span o… read more

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  • fiction
"Dad!"

-Greg Iles, Third Degree

"The sheriff faced forward, the downward angle of his big head radiating disappointment."

-Greg Iles, Third Degree

"All human beings, Carl had learned, were fascinated with death. Only those who knew death intimately, as he did, understood its essential mystery."

-Greg Iles, Third Degree

"circa 1985. Vida's great claim to fame was winning a televised wet T-shirt contest in Destin she'd beaten 150 other competitors-but two children and ten thousand cheeseburgers had deflated her prized…"

-Greg Iles, Third Degree

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2. The Kreutzer Sonata

By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."

-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata

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3. Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.04

Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha… read more

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  • fiction
"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

4. Deer Run Trail (the Trail series Book 1)

By: David R. Lewis

3.92

Format: 358 pages,

The year was 1881, an' young Ruben Beeler was makin' his way along near the Missouri River, findin'… read more

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5. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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6. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizin… read more

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  • fiction
"An old man's body is nothing but a sack in which he carries aches and indignities."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in..."

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

"I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also …"

-Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

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7. The Trouble Shooter: Part One

By: C.J. Petit

4.43

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Eleven-year-old Axel Nielsen and his ten-year-old girlfriend Elsa Johannsen were happily chatting a… read more

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  • westerns
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8. Heck's Journey (Heck and Hope #1)

By: John Deacon

4.65

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic tale of strength, compassion, and adventure on the western frontier. Orphaned at fourtee… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Robert Vaughan's The Founders: A Men's Western Action and Adventure Series

By: Robert Vaughan

4.41

Format: 1233 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of the #1 Bestselling The Tenderfoot and the Lucas Cain series comes … read more

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10. Vaqueros: Coltrane and Calvin, Book 3

By: R.O. Lane

4.61

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Calvin and his friend, Diego, grow up to be full-fledged vaqueros, exactly what Coltrane had always… read more

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11. Menace in the Mysterious Train

By: Austin Grayson

4.26

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

When Edgar Campbell arrives in Red River, he falls victim to a deceitful poker player and loses eve… read more

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  • westerns
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12. Rustlers in the Sage: A Western Novella

By: Donald L. Robertson

4.21

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

Holt Kincannon has nothing left but his horse, his guns, and his pride. His years as a Texas ranche… read more

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  • westerns
Cover of Mercy: A Classic Western Adventure (Westward Western Saga) by Frank Wheeler

13. Mercy: A Classic Western Adventure (Westward Western Saga)

By: Frank Wheeler

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A classic western novel from Frank Wheeler with non-stop epic adventure and a blend of western roma… read more

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14. Vigilante : Max Reeves Book 2, Classic Western and Frontier Adventure (Max Reeves, Classic Western and Frontier Adventure)

By: Robert Harvey

4.45

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Max Reeves was riding across southwest Montana, with no definite destination in mind. He had finish… read more

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15. Bloodshed and Crime in the West

By: Ethan Westfield

4.01

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Deputy Travis Conway is a lionhearted man who has enjoyed a peaceful life in Phoenix, in the heart … read more

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  • westerns
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16. Gold Country

By: J.B. Richard

4.25

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

It's hard to believe what some men will do for the promise of wealth. But every man has his price.A… read more

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17. No Rescue for the Traitor

By: Derek Levine

4.06

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is good for Benedict Aritza… He owns a butcher shop with his best friend, he is the town’s fav… read more

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  • westerns
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18. Old: A Western (Never Too Old Westerns Book 1)

By: J.V. James

4.39

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Old man, old horse, old rifle. And an outspoken orphan child needin' protection. I'm the ex-lawman… read more

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  • westerns
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19. The Desert of Wheat

By: Zane Grey

3.71

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Nor… read more

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  • classics
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  • fiction
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"Soon he would be walking a beat in one of the training camps, with a bugle call in his ears and the turmoil of thousands of soldiers in the making around him; soon, too, he would be walking the deck …"

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

"The rugged fallow ground under her feet seemed to her to be a symbol of faith — faith that winter would come and pass — the spring sun and rain would burst the seeds of wheat — and another summer wou…"

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

"Many were the last resting-places of toilers of the wheat there on those hills. And surely in the long frontier days, and in the ages before, men innumerable had gone back to the earth from which the…"

-Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat

Cover of Lionhearted Riders in Peril by Ethan Westfield

20. Lionhearted Riders in Peril

By: Ethan Westfield

4.16

Format: 1384 pages, Kindle Edition

Three of my best-selling Western Adventure novels! Thrilling, action-packed stories full of dram… read more

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21. The Man They Couldn't Hang (Lincoln Hawk, #3)

By: Scott Connor

3.79

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

Marshal Lincoln Hawk rode into Independence hell-bent on finding the man who had gunned down his ol… read more

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