Westerns

Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, but there are also a number of works about Western-type characters in contemporary settings.

Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape.

Off the Reservation (The Only Good Indians, #2)
Dark Horse (Blackwood Cowboys, #1)
Mistletoe All the Way: A Novel
Never Been Tamed (Heartstone Ranch #2)
The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
A Crimson Ridge Christmas (Crimson Ridge #2.5, 4.5)
The Turning of Sally-Mae
The Heart's Most Wanted (Rocky Mountain Marshals #2)
Long Way Home (Mercy River Ranch #2)
Rain or Shine (Ironside Ridge, #1)
Reckless Skye (Hunt Ranch #3)
Free Falling (Sweetwater Peak, #2)
Blue Jean Summer (Wilder Estate #1)
Dreams of Earth and Sky: A Novel
Afterglow (Monarch Ranch #1)
Free Falling (Sweetwater Peak, #2)
Never Been Tamed (Heartstone Ranch #2)
Mistletoe All the Way
Wanted (Grosvenor Ranch #1)
Ryder (Lucky River Ranch, #5)
Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)
Romantic Hero
Autumn Kissed (Falling for Autumn)
Broken Fields (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #4)
Sunrise
Love Wells Kept (Wells Ranch, #5)
Riding the High (Silver Pines Ranch, #3)
Stealing Hearts (Wild at Heart, #1)
Unguarded (Redford Ranch, #2)
The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World
The Tin Star by J.L. LangleyBareback by Chris OwenThe Broken H by J.L. LangleyTiming by Mary CalmesNowhere Ranch by Heidi Cullinan
Best Gay Cowboys
431 books — 642 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Best Westerns
1,472 books — 1,637 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Literary Westerns
291 books — 406 voters

Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
True Grit
The Sisters Brothers
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
Flawless (Chestnut Springs, #1)
Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2)
No Country for Old Men
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch, #1)
Butcher's Crossing
Hondo

Cormac McCarthy
“ Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. ”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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