Hey all I'm looking for some suggestions on any sort of western book. The reason I put other as the genre is because I don't care if the book is set in the Wild West or modern western American
I love western movies (3:10 to Yuma, The Good The Bad and The ugly), games (rdr2), and I also ride horses, but I've only liked a few western books
Not sure if this helps but, some famous books I liked:
– Small Things Like These
– To Kill a Mockingbird
– White Fang
– Shane
Famous Books I didn't like
– Brokeback Mountain
– Cats Cradle
– The Alchemist
– 1984
by Mika_And_Mika
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Blood Meridian
Lonesome Dove
The Sisters Brothers
The Half Made World or The Dark Tower if you’re interested Westerns mixed with sci-fi/fantasy elements.
Cormac McCarthy is definitely the best to ever do it. All The Pretty Horses is a much more accessible and “westerny” intro than Blood Meridian etc and still amazing.
Doc by Mary Doria Russell. You think you know the story of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral, but you don’t. Doc Holliday was a sensitive, piano playing dentist named John – forced to leave his home and family in Georgia in search of relief from tuberculosis. He kept moving west, and gambling paid better than dentistry. Exquisite prose, impeccably researched.
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus. A true fact – a Cheyenne chief makes an offer to the US government – give me 1000 white women for my men, and within a generation we will be one people. The US said no way, but Fergus imagines they said, okay sure.
The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout. Four women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne’er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman. A gothic, steampunk, western horror remake of Sleeping Beauty. So good.
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt. A great story and the best cover art.
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. Moves into the modern-day west. Poignant.
The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave by Bill Pronzini. 1914, the old west is just about gone, and the new west is…unsettling.
I’ll be the third person to say The Sisters Brothers
Also, True Grit by Charles Portis