23 must-read fiction books like Hard Ride: Stories of the Old West by Elmer Kelton

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Hard Ride: Stories of the Old West

By: Elmer Kelton

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, a collection of tales of the American…

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1. A Serpent's Tooth (Walt Longmire, #9)

By: Craig Johnson

4.29

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New Yor… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon."

-Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth (Walt Longmire, #9)

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2. Mustang Man (The Sacketts, #13)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.05

Format: 170 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In Mustang Man, Louis L’Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, gree… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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3. Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.16

Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enth… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment. ~Barnabas Sackett~"

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

"I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen."

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

"I cannont believe in anything else. A man needs heroes. He needs to believe in strength, nobility and courage. Otherwise we become sheep to be herded to the slaughterhouse of death. I believe this. I…"

-Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

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4. Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire, #6)

By: Craig Johnson

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Read Craig Johnson's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A missing thumb and dead de… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"I thought about the damage we all did in life simply by being ourselves and getting up in the morning."

-Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire, #6)

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5. Milo Talon

By: Louis L'Amour

2.50

Format: 32 pages,

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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6. Treasure Mountain

By: Louis L'Amour

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

How do you bring a million dollars in gold down a mountain? First you have to find it, and that's m… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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7. Mojave Crossing

By: Louis L'Amour

3.49

Format: 312 pages,

In Mojave Crossing, Louis L'Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Ariz… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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8. Any Other Name (Walt Longmire, #10)

By: Craig Johnson

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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9. Flint

By: Louis L'Amour

5.00

Format: 384 pages,

He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of viol… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction

10. Rivers West

By: Louis L'Amour

3.95

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

His dream was to build magnificent steamboats to ply the rivers of the American frontier. But when … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction

11. The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)

By: Michael Connelly

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to … read more

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12. The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)

By: Craig Johnson

3.75

Format: None pages,

The Denver Posthails Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mystery series as a must-read. Joining the four … read more

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13. As The Crow Flies (Walt Longmire, #8)

By: Craig Johnson

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The eighth novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire series, the basis for L… read more

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14. The Lonely Men

By: Louis L'Amour

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

In The Lonely Men,Louis L'Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap--only to disc… read more

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15. Sackett

By: Louis L'Amour

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A drifter by circumstance, William Tell Sackett hungered for a place he couldn't name but knew he h… read more

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16. Jubal Sackett

By: Louis L'Amour

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny … read more

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17. Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

By: Michael Connelly

3.77

Format: None pages,

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Conne… read more

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18. Borden Chantry

By: Louis L'Amour

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The marshal's name was Borden Chantry. Young, lean, rugged, he's buried a few men in this two-bit c… read more

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19. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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20. Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even susp… read more

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  • fiction
"The hardest part of trying to become an adult is realizing that your suffering doesn't entitle you to anything."

-Gregg Hurwitz, Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

"You took your own insecurity and put it on her. That weakens her. And it weakens you. You treat a young woman like that with respect. If nothing else it'll teach you about yourself. teach you who you…"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

"Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will…"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

"Maybe that's what intimacy was... A sense of dread at what could go wrong, a stifling of fear, a baring of the vulnerable self to the judgement of someone else. The jagged edge of one soul meeting an…"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Prodigal Son (Orphan X, #6)

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21. Lone Wolf (Orphan X, #9)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.37

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep und… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20) by Craig Johnson

22. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

By: Craig Johnson

4.37

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
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23. The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan , the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when… read more

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  • fiction
"Don’t surround yourself with like-minded people. You’ll get limited or radicalized."

-Gregg Hurwitz, The Last Orphan (Orphan X #8)

Cover of Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14) by Craig Johnson

24. Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14)

By: Craig Johnson

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Cra… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
Cover of Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7) by Gregg Hurwitz

25. Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.37

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging … read more

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  • fiction
"That is the awful, beautiful, sacrificial power of love. We sharpen ourselves against those we love in order to cut ourselves open and see what’s inside. Sometimes I wonder if wisdom is nothing more …"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)

"Women are fucking Swiss Army knives. Throw anything at them and they figure out which part of them to use to fix it, care for it, make it better. They can hear if a baby’s cough is just a cough, can …"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse (Orphan X, #7)

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26. Into the Fire (Orphan X, #5)

By: Gregg Hurwitz

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns—facing his own uncertain future and undertaking one… read more

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  • fiction
"He looked fit and healthy, a vibrant seventy-something. The kind of man who was superb at caring for himself. Organic food and facial peels and a weekly massage at the racket club. The kind of man wh…"

-Gregg Hurwitz, Into the Fire (Orphan X, #5)

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27. To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

By: Louis L'Amour

4.19

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after retur… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
"After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?"

-Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

"[Barnabas speaks] "I will drink water." "Water? But water is not fit for men to drink. For the cattle, for birds and beast, but a man needs ale . . . or wine, if you are a Frenchman." [William answer…"

-Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2)

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28. The Tenderfoot

By: Robert Vaughan

4.45

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Master of the Western adventure, New York Times best selling author Robert Vaughan is back with ano… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hard Ride: Stories of the Old West by Elmer Kelton

29. Hard Ride: Stories of the Old West

By: Elmer Kelton

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, a collection of tales of the American… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher by Lee Child

30. Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher

By: Lee Child

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction

16 Top westerns books like Hard Ride: Stories of the Old West by Elmer Kelton

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Craig Johnson

4.29

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Louis L'Amour

4.05

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Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)

Louis L'Amour

4.16

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Craig Johnson

4.25

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On Target (Gray Man #2)

Mark Greaney

3.80

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Lee Child

4.09

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The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8)

Nick Petrie

4.36

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Mark Greaney

4.37

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