The West


Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Angle of Repose
Desert Solitaire
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
True Grit
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
The Sisters Brothers
No Country for Old Men
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
The Grapes of Wrath
Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyThe False Prophet by Harry James FoxThe Stonegate Sword by Harry James FoxThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowBeyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner
Best of the Desert Southwest
88 books — 63 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtryTerms of Endearment by Larry McMurtryStreets of Laredo by Larry McMurtryThe Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry
The Best of Larry McMurtry
26 books — 62 voters

Born Slippy by Tom LutzThe Mountains of California by John MuirMy Dirty California by Jason MosbergThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
A California Reader
120 books — 13 voters
A Tree with My Name on It by Victress HitchcockWellington Webb by Wellington WebbColorado Day by Day by Derek R. EverettThere There by Tommy OrangeSoaring on the Wings of a Dream by Ed Dwight
Books about the West
55 books — 4 voters

Thomas Sowell
It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North Afr ...more
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Seraphim Rose
The very term 'Middle Ages' is an interesting one because it exists only in the West. All other civilizations, whether Christian, such as Byzantine or Russian, or non-Christian, such as the Chinese or Indian, can be divided into two periods, that is, the ancient period when these civilizations were governed by their own native philosophy, world-view, tradition, and the modern period when they became overwhelmed by the West. And there’s no noticeable shading from one to the other. It’s merely a m ...more
Seraphim Rose, Orthodox Survival Course

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