7 Best audiobook books like Hombre by Elmore Leonard

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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…

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Cover of Hondo by Louis L'Amour

1. 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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  • classics
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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2. 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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  • classics
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"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

Cover of The Searchers by Alan LeMay

3. 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
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1) by Robert B. Parker

4. Appaloosa (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #1)

By: Robert B. Parker

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of … read more

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  • westerns
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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6. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • classics
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • classics
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook

8. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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9. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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10. 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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11. The Last Kind Words Saloon

By: Larry McMurtry

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry… read more

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12. The Quick and the Dead

By: Louis L'Amour

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was pre… 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. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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15. Resolution (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #2)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.91

Format: 631 pages,

The "New York Times"?bestselling author's richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful ta… read more

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16. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

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  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

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17. Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)

By: Zane Grey , None

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Lassiter is a gunslinger, an avenger in black. In a remote Utah town, he saves beautiful rancher Ja… read more

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  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him."

-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)

"Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet."

-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)

"So that's troublin' you? I reckon it needn't. You see it was this way. I come round the house an' seen that fat party an' heard him talkin' loud. Then he seen me, an' very impolite goes straight for …"

-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)

"While she waited there she forgot the prospect of untoward change. The bray of a lazy burro broke the afternoon quiet, and it was comfortingly suggestive of the drowsy farmyard, and the open corrals,…"

-Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)

18. Brimstone (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #3)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.76

Format: None pages,

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19. 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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  • classics
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook

20. Deadwood

By: Pete Dexter

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utte… read more

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21. Blue-Eyed Devil (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch, #4)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.85

Format: None pages,

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10 must-read fiction books like Hombre by Elmore Leonard

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Louis L'Amour

4.06

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Shane

Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

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The Searchers

Alan LeMay

4.39

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Robert B. Parker

4.82

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The Virginian (Scribner Classics)

Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst

3.91

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Louis L'Amour

4.06

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Jack Schaefer , Wendell Minor

3.94

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4.16

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