It’s Guthrie’s debut about three frontiersmen traveling west as fur trappers in the 1830s. Not to discount those titles—they’re well known for a reason. But what I love most about this novel is that in a genre where conscious reflection is so often absent in favor of empty gun play, Hansen delivers in spades. The writing is so vivid and well-researched it often leaves me panting. Read the first two pages and you’ll see the sure-fire signs of how Doctorow became a master stylist. But that’s where the similarities stop. Especially today. Here are the 10 best Western novels you can read today. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Those roads provided breath-taking views. Another debut by a literary heavyweight. Kindle Edition. Some were once wildly popular but have faded from memory. and bitterly wept as we bore him along. Many have at least heard of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate. Dusty trails full of tumbleweeds—meet the superhighways full of cars. The dialogue makes me drool. 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Forget the HBO show of the same name. No, really—it put me in a trance and I awoke sixty pages later wondering what the hell just happened to me. Dexter’s novel was published in 1986, so it’s got dibs anyway. I know this novel! It doesn’t hurt that Paul Newman knocked the role of Hud into the stratosphere. Les dime novels sont les ancêtres des romans de gare, mais on retrouve l'influence de leurs univers dans les comics, certaines émissions de télévisions ou encore au cinéma. — The Valley of Gwangi courtesy Warner Bros. — Seven Arts— Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, an endlessly-in-the-works film that finally premiered on August 4, disappointed fans because, unlike the novels, it’s not a Western.. For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, Forget your cowboy movie blockbusters. updated May 13, 2015 06:31PM — But to have enjoyed that novel and not have read Desperadoes is a serious misstep. 1 chapters — Hopeful Cowboy: A Mulbury Boys Novel (Hope Eternal Ranch Romance Book 1) Elana Johnson. To find out more about PW’s site license subscription options please email: pw@pubservice.com. 28 people liked it, 1 chapters — we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong." Lasso up these classic best Western books for your reading rodeo! 4.7 out of 5 stars 220. Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set … last active 5 months ago, Tags contributing to this page include: westerns, american-west, cowboy, cowboys, cowboys-and-indians, western, and western-fiction. To get seriously down with the Wild West, grab a novel. His prose rivals Nabokov in this tour de force. If you’re reading this list, you’re most likely a Western fan already and familiar with classics like Blood Meridian, Lonesome Dove, and True Grit. Or, at least, half of it. The Old West is disappearing to modern society in this novel of friendship that turns from jailbreak to manhunt in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1903, not long before her death, Calamity Jane famously said “Leave me alone and let me go to hell by my own route.” There’s nothing like wandering aimlessly through a bookstore, picking up a copy of a novel you’ve never heard of, falling in love on the first page, and sprinting up to the counter while turning to page two. Andrew Hilleman's thrilling western, World, Chase Me Down, re- imagines the life of a turn-of-the-20th-century kidnapper who committed the first “crime of the century.” Hilleman picks 10 great western novels you've probably never read. This isn’t off-the-radar! The Cowboy's Lament.