10 must-read westerns books like Hanging Judge by Elmer Kelton

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Hanging Judge

By: Elmer Kelton

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is…

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Cover of In the Best Families (Nero Wolfe, #17) by Rex Stout, Patricia Sprinkle

1. In the Best Families (Nero Wolfe, #17)

By: Rex Stout , Patricia Sprinkle

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The aging millionairess has a question: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? T… read more

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  • fiction
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2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

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  • fiction
"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

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3. Pirate Latitudes

By: Michael Crichton

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of the English crown, a minor colony holding out against the vas… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There are no pirates in Port Royal"

-Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

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4. The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.19

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the coloni… read more

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  • fiction
"The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority"

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

"Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres."

-Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

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5. When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)

By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace – Christopher Robin went down with Alice.” Curl up wit… read more

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  • fiction
"She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead."

-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)

"If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on the water as blue as air. And you'd see me here in the fields and say: "Doesn't the sky look green today?"

-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)

"If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!"

-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)

"Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered t…"

-Ernest H. Shepard, When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)

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6. Chancy

By: Louis L'Amour

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

He was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn't eaten in three days. With the front of h… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical 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
  • historical fiction
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8. Lando

By: Louis L'Amour

3.44

Format: 272 pages,

One of the great sagas of our time, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning ach… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Sackett Brand

By: Louis L'Amour

3.91

Format: None pages,

Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fi… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. War Party

By: Louis L'Amour

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian atta… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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  • fiction

12. Last of the Breed

By: Louis L'Amour

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It … read more

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13. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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14. A Man Called Trent

By: Louis L'Amour

4.05

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Set in New Mexico, A Man Called Trent opens to a nester named Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He recognized the feeling for what it was - the need within him to protect and care for something beyond himself. It was that in part that these past years had led him to fight so many fights that we…"

-Louis L'Amour, A Man Called Trent

15. The Rider of the Ruby Hills

By: Louis L'Amour

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively… read more

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16. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • westerns
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

17. Windigo Island (Cork O'Connor, #14)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the re… read more

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18. Galloway

By: Louis L'Amour

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, … read more

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19. 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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20. The Sky-Liners

By: Louis L'Amour

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation; it just happened that way. They had crossed Blac… read more

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21. And Be a Villain (Nero Wolfe, #13)

By: Rex Stout , Maan Meyers

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst nightmare comes true when one of her on-air guests col… read more

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22. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) by Colson Whitehead

23. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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24. A Solitude of Wolverines (Alex Carter #1)

By: Alice Henderson

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The first book in a thrilling series featuring an intrepid wildlife biologist who's dedicated to sa… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

By: Ben Schott

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jeeves and Wooster return in a new espionage caper full of japes, high jinks, and jiggery-pokery in… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"- Were you never a child? - Briefly, sir. The predicament proved unavoidable."

-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

"As Sherlock Holmes once observed: When you've excluded the inevitable, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be lunch."

-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

"- But tell me, who was that queer cove with the spool of twine and the German accent? - The Austrian accent? Jeeves gently corrected. I may be mistaken, sir, but I think that was the philosopher Ludw…"

-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

"- But tell me, who was that queer cove with the spool of twine and the German accent? - The Austrian accent? Jeeves gently corrected. I may be mistaken, sir, but I think that was the philosopher Ludw…"

-Ben Schott, Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

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26. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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  • fiction
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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27. Gather

By: Kenneth M. Cadow

4.43

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recov… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman: A Hewey Calloway Adventure (Hewey Calloway, 4) by Steve Kelton

28. Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman: A Hewey Calloway Adventure (Hewey Calloway, 4)

By: Steve Kelton

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Elmer Kelton’s Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in … read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

29. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Texarkana (A Perley Gates Western Book 6) by William W. Johnstone

30. Texarkana (A Perley Gates Western Book 6)

By: William W. Johnstone

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. RUSTLERS’ PARADISE. An unholy trio of cutthroat rustlers turn a routine horse dr… read more

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  • westerns
Cover of Hanging Judge by Elmer Kelton

31. Hanging Judge

By: Elmer Kelton

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is… read more

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  • fiction
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21 must-read fiction books like Hanging Judge by Elmer Kelton

Transform Your Habits

In the Best Families (Nero Wolfe, #17)

Rex Stout , Patricia Sprinkle

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Raymond Chandler

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Pirate Latitudes

Michael Crichton

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)

Isaac Asimov

4.19

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The Shepherd of Guadaloupe

Zane Grey

4.04

Transform Your Habits

A Man Called Trent

Louis L'Amour

4.05

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Death & Texas (A Death & Texas Western)

William W. Johnstone

4.55

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Dark Is the Night (A Death & Texas Western Book 2)

William W. Johnstone

4.55

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