5 must-read westerns books like Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow

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Welcome to Hard Times

By: E.L. Doctorow

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there co…

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Cover of The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1) by John Dos Passos

1. The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)

By: John Dos Passos

3.82

Format: 325 pages, Trade Paperback

With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is … read more

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  • american
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" Luther Burbank was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was an…"

-John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)

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2. Bomber

By: Len Deighton

4.19

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of a… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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3. Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)

By: Brian Panowich

3.99

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made i… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald

4.23

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
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"Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked."

-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

"Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."

-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

"Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom."

-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

"She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."

-Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

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5. 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
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6. The Dog of the South

By: Charles Portis

4.27

Format: 24 pages,

The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more

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7. Under the Net

By: Iris Murdoch

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more

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8. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more

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  • literary fiction
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9. Welcome to Hard Times

By: E.L. Doctorow

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there co… read more

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  • american
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  • westerns
  • fiction
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10. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

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11. The Color Of Lightning

By: Paulette Jiles

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather comes this stirrin… read more

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12. The Ox-Bow Incident

By: Wallace Stegner , Walter Van Tilburg Clark

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incidentis a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violen… read more

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13. Horseman, Pass By

By: Larry McMurtry

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more

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14. Little Big Man

By: Thomas Berger

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of… read more

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15. Dusk and Other Stories

By: James Salter

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Virtuosic and exquisitely compressed, these stories show Salter at his best. The collection receive… read more

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16. The Shootist

By: Glendon Swarthout , None

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gun… read more

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17. Desperation Road

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more

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18. Pop. 1280

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest cri… read more

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19. Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux, #9)

By: James Lee Burke

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous bl… read more

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20. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • american
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10) by Tony Hillerman

21. Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in posse… read more

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"From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it."

-Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10)

13 must-read fiction books like Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow

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The 42nd Parallel (U.S.A. #1)

John Dos Passos

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Bomber

Len Deighton

4.19

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Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)

Brian Panowich

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Flannery O'Connor , Robert Fitzgerald

4.23

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21 must-read fiction books like Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10) by Tony Hillerman

Transform Your Habits

Navajo Autumn (A Navajo Nation Mystery #1)

R. Allen Chappell

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Banking on Death (John Putnam Thatcher, #1)

Emma Lathen

3.97

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Under the Color of Law (Kevin Kerney, #6)

Michael McGarrity

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Hermit's Peak (Kevin Kerney, #4)

Michael McGarrity

4.13

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