Top 100 Western Fiction Books

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📘 Lonesome Dove

A sweeping late‑nineteenth‑century cattle drive from Texas to Montana follows former Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and William F. Call as they confront the American West's myths, love, and violence in this epic of adventure and friendship.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Flint

He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America--and one of the most feared and hated.Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Tender is the Storm

Headstrong heiress Sharisse Hammond wants no part of the New York society marriage that has been arranged for her. So she heads west across a vast and dangerous land -- with no intention of honoring her agreement to become the mail-order bride of a rugged Arizona rancher.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Western Romance

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📘 Brionne

Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore his brothers would take vengeance. . .Four year later the Allard boys returned to settle the score. Only Brionne's son escaped. They murdered his wife, destroyed his home, and left Brionne nothing but the charred ruins of his past to haunt him.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Western Adventure

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📘 The sky-liners

In The Sky-Liners, Louis L'Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That's when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Hondo

Two men. One woman. A land that demanded courage - or death ... He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Sackett's Land

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil's Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett's father threatens Genester's inheritance.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 To the Far Blue Mountains

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L'Amour weaves an unforgettable tale of a man who journeys to his homeland — but discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible....

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Tucker

If a man won't fight for what is rightly his, then he ain't much account." With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Western Adventure

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📘 True Grit

True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Cattle Rancher, Secret Son

He's the toast of Australian society...Cattleman Cal McKendrick is under pressure from his family to produce an heir for the magnificent McKendrick homestead that lies deep in the Outback. Then he discovers he's already a father! She's the mother of the son he never knew he had. Gina Romano had loved Cal with all her soul.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Western Romance

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📘 To tame a land

Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home.

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📘 Twin of ice

**Twin of Ice** Montgomery/Taggert (Publication order) #6; (Chandler Twins, #1) Happily betrothed to Dr. Lee Westfield, Houston is every bit the good girl she was raised to be. So when faced with Kane Taggert's brash marriage proposal, Houston is outwardly shocked.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Western Romance

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📘 The Rogue

Across the windswept plains of Nevada, through the sun-scorched days and starry nights, they fought an all consuming attraction... Proud, wilful and beautiful Diana clashes head on with Holt Mallory, the man who runs her father's ranch. But his son arouses her pity, and she opens her arms to the motherless boy.

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📘 Devil on horseback

How could she tell Alex the truth? When Joanna Thomas heard from Liz, an old school friend, about the housekeeping job at her brother's ranch, Joanna accepted it to prove that she could succeed on her own. A course in gourmet cooking hadn't really prepared her for the enormous task, but that was only part of the problem.

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📘 Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage is a novel that tells the story of a woman by the name of Jane Withersteen and her battle to overcome persecution by members of her polygamous Mormon fundamentalist church. A leader of the church, Elder Tull, wants to marry her, but she has evaded him for years.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Touch the Wind

Janet Dailey, the New York Times bestselling author who has touched the hearts of millions, shines in this unforgettable novel. Sweeping from the wealth and glamour of a modern Texas city to the rugged majesty of Mexico's High Sierras, this is a magnificent tale of desire and destiny from one of the world's most beloved storytellers.

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📘 The crossing

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 The Cowboy and the Lady

HE WAS A SHADOW FROM HER PAST. Jace Whitehall had given Amanda her first taste of passion. His silver eyes had held a forbidden fascination for her, but at sixteen she had been too inexperienced to understand the fiery message in his searing kisses, too young to let him initiate her into the rites of love. Now all that had changed.

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📘 The Sisters Brothers

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight was Jack London's best selling book during his lifetime. The book begins as a two-fisted macho adventure on the Klondike, as the hero--nicknamed Burning Daylight--becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Love's long journey

Newlyweds Missie and Willie share a dream. However, it means that Missie must leave her parents, family and friends behind to join a wagon train and claim land in the West with her new husband. Overcoming incredible hardships on the journey, she grows into a mature wife and mother.

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📘 Cattleman's Choice

Carson Wayne had come to Mandelyn Bush with the ultimate request: he needed her to teach him how to treat a lady. No doubt he'd asked the right person - Mandelyn was as polished and feminine as Carson was rough and reclusive. And she was the only person who could reason with him during one of his barroom brawls.

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📘 Shadows of yesterday

AKA Shadows of Yesterday LEIGH . . . She was terrifyingly alone on a Texas highway about to deliver her first child when a rugged stranger in a pickup truck stopped to help her. Leigh Bransom had lost her husband eight months before when he was tragically killed on the job.

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📘 The warrior's path

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers.In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are the last hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death.

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📘 Comanche moon

Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 Winter in the blood

Narrated by a young Native American living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, Winter in the Blood is the unforgettable story of a man living out the tragedy of his people. Intelligent sensitive, and self destructive he is haunted by the untimely deaths of his father and older brother and the shards of his once proud heritage.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Western

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📘 The Touch Of Fire

SHE WAS A LADY DOCTOR...HE WAS A DESPERATE OUTLAW. ONLY HER HEALING TOUCH COULD IGNITE HIS HEART'S HIDDEN PASSION. Annie Parker came to Silver Mesa, Arizona, because it was the only place she'd found where folks thought a woman doctor was better than no doctor at all.

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📘 Ride the river

In Ride the River, Louis L'Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fortune from a murderous thief and teach him what it means to be a Sackett. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far from her Tennessee home--until she made the long trek to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance.

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📘 Lord of the high lonesome

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it’s the journey of a lifetime.

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📘 Calder Storm

Filled with passion, suspense, heartbreak, and hope, Calder Storm is an enthralling love story. With his rugged-cowboy looks, Trey Calder could have his pick of women. But he’s been holding out for someone special, and the minute he lays eyes on photographer Sloan Davis, he knows he’s found her, and within weeks the two are married.

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📘 Showdown Trail

ABOUT SHOWDOWN TRAIL Rock Bannon is a man bred to the Colt and the rugged law of frontier survival. But to a group of naïve homesteaders, his reputation as a gunfighter marks him as an outcast among decent folk. So when a smooth-talking scoundrel comes to camp, no one is ready to listen to Bannon’s warning.

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📘 The Rainbow Trail

Fleeing persecution, Fay Larkin is held prisoner in a hidden canyon near the Mormon village of “sealed” wives. Trespassers face a gory death, but Fay’s fiance John Shefford will stop at nothing to get her back. Encountering villainous characters and rough terrain, he goes up against the odds – even without a gun! – to save his beautiful wife-to-be.

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📘 The Key-Lock Man

This is about a man who is chased by a posse though he has killed someone not deliberately but as a result of a fair fight when he was pushed into a quarrel.He returns home but is chased by the posse and makes the posse respect him.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Historical Western

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📘 The man from Skibbereen

Crispin Mayo was a stranger to the law of the gun. He had come West from Ireland to seek his fortune-one man with nothing but his fists to protect him. Was he tough enough to tangle with a cut-throat band of renegades? It was none of his business--until the desperate plea of a pert little lady made him want to find out.

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📘 Winterkill

After his district supervisor is murdered in the wilderness, Joe Pickett finds himself in the middle of an increasingly bloody confrontation between government agents and members of a survivalist compound.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Contemporary Western

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📘 Texas

Texas finds itself the site for many events from 1527 to the present, including the Battle of the Alamo. A richly compelling novel of a proud people eager to meet the marvelous challenge of the land, Texas is Michener's most magnificent achievement. This re-release of Michener's masterpiece ties in with the up-coming mini-series.

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📘 Only His

Willow Moran must rely on gunfighter Caleb Black to lead her from her Civil War-ravaged home to her brother's refuge in the Colorado Rockies. In the course of their journey, this spirited Southern lady will become a fever in Caleb's blood -- and Willow must also acknowledge that this wild man is her destiny.

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📘 This Wild Heart

SHE COULDN'T TRUST HIM Beautiful Morgan Wainwright was eager to trade her New York townhouse for the rangelands of Nevada, where she'd inherited a half-share in the Red Rock Ranch. But then Morgan met her darkly handsome partner, the half-Indian, all-infuriating Joseph Youngblood.

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📘 Kiowa Trail

Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes.

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📘 Sun Kissed

When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn't expect to wind up in jail. But that's what happens when she tries to stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. Tucker Coulter, a handsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense, and both of them are arrested. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have only started...

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📘 A Lady of the West

N THE SAVAGE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, LOVE COULD REDEEM... OR DESTROY Victoria Waverly was a noble daughter of the war-ruined South, sold in marriage to a ruthless Western rancher. Only honor and pride could help her endure her painful role as wife in name alone. Yet honor.

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📘 Hope

When Hope leaves Michigan for Kentucky as a mail-order bride, she is waylaid by bumbling outlaws, gets mixed up in a family feud, and is kidnapped yet again! Through it all she learns how God works everything together for good for his children.

Genre: Western Fiction Subgenre: Western Romance

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📘 Silver lining

Hailed as "one of the best writers in the business" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, multi-award-winning author Maggie Osborne delivers hilarious and heartrending tales of resilient women full of grit, pride, and dignity who shine through hard times.

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📘 Shadow Walker

Defenseless, Dawn, a half-breed whose father had sold her to the first interested party, was overjoyed when Cole Webster killed the ruthless outlaw who had been her husband in name only. But now she faces a different kind of man, a man who honors the Native American traditions that have been lost to her.

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📘 Lacey

SWEET CHARITY Stranded on the Western frontier, Lacey Stewart suddenly had to depend on the kindness of strangers. And no one showed her more generosity than the rancher who offered to marry her. But shortly after Trey Saunders and Lacey were pronounced husband and wife, he was off to a cattle drive -- and another woman's bed.

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📘 Down the long hills

After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation, marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals.

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📘 Desperado

Araminta Winthrop was bride to a man she had never desired. Then a black-clad bandit crashed, guns blazing, into her wedding reception -- and she became the captive of the notorious Rigo de Castillo. A handsome outlaw who ran with Pancho Villa, he brazenly took her into the wild country, meaning to ravish her.

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📘 Centennial

Product Description: A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life.

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📘 West Texas Weddings

A new heir to the Parker Ranch? Impossible! Only a true Parker can inherit. Yet Christine Grant and her young daughter, Erin, arrive claiming just that. It’s up to the Parkers to prove otherwise. To do that, they enlist the help of cow cop and temporary foreman Morgan Hughes.

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📘 Granite Man (MacKenzie-Blackthorn, Book 4)

Mariah had returned home to her sprawling Colorado ranch with nothing but a battered car, some clothes and a map for gold. And what she got was an ornery prospecting partner named Cash, with a chip on his shoulder as big as the Rockies and a past that was chasing him. Cash couldn't hide his distrust . . . or his awareness of her sensuality.

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📘 Summer Breeze

(The second book in the Keegan-Paxton Family series) The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outside her house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her family dead, she's cordoned herself off from the outside world, afraid to let anyone into her home--or into her heart.

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📘 Mustang Man

In Mustang Man, Louis L'Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder.When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn't make her any less desirable.

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📘 The man called Noon

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead--and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions--or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies.

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📘 Fearless

As Gloryanne's bittersweet miracle and Rodrigo's double life collide, two people learning just what it means to trust must face the truth about each other, and decide if there's a chance for the future they both secretly desire.

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📘 Renegade Heart

**A Wanted Man. An Innocent Woman. A Wanton Love.** When beautiful Rachel Halloran took Logan Tyree into her home, he was unconscious, a renegade Indian with a bullet wound in his side and a price on his head. To Rachel, he was nothing but trouble, a man whose dark sensuality made her long for forbidden pleasures.

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📘 Little Big Man

Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by Custer.

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📘 A Texas sky

Given the assignment of escorting Miss Darvi Wingate to the town of Aurora, Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings thinks it will be an easy task until Darvi becomes a pawn in one of the biggest rackets in town, and Dakota must come to her rescue.

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📘 High lonesome

Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country.

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📘 Cheyenne captive

Panorama of the Old West #1 *SCANDALOUS THOUGHTS* When Headstrong, golden-haired Summer ran away from home, all she could think of was leaving her strict father behind. But after a vengeance-seeking Indian attacked her stage threatening her with a fate worse, than death, the tempestuous girl yearned for her parents' overbearing rules....

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