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Larry McMurtry

Born

in Wichita Falls, Texas, The United States

June 03, 1936

Died

March 25, 2021

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins). He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.
His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. McMurtry and co-writer Diana Ossana adapted the scre ...more

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	Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) 4.61 avg rating — 297,253 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 32,616 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 30,748 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terms of Endearment 4.12 avg rating — 27,527 ratings — published 1975 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4) 4.18 avg rating — 25,179 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Picture Show really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23,128 ratings — published 1966 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horseman, Pass By 3.94 avg rating — 6,012 ratings — published 1961 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 6,242 ratings — published 2002 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texasville 3.75 avg rating — 5,392 ratings — published 1987 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Kind Words Saloon 3.17 avg rating — 6,277 ratings — published 2014 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 275 pages, 1969

46 votes, 14.0%

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages, 1856

45 votes, 13.7%

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 393 pages, 1938

38 votes, 11.6%

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 422 pages, 1922

27 votes, 8.2%

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1037 pages, 1936

23 votes, 7.0%

The Odyssey by Homer, 541 pages, -800

23 votes, 7.0%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, 1943

20 votes, 6.1%

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 518 pages, 1891

20 votes, 6.1%

Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages, 1871

16 votes, 4.9%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages, 1925

16 votes, 4.9%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 945 pages, 1985

15 votes, 4.6%

Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages, 1880

14 votes, 4.3%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1859

14 votes, 4.3%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

12 votes, 3.6%

329 total votes

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