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Books set in Texas:


All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Murder in Volume by Doris R. Meredith (D.R. Meredith) (1st book of series set in TX)
Blessed Assurance: At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas by A.G. Mojtabai
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (1t book of series set in TX)
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Brownsville: Stories by Oscar Casares
Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer
With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Américo Paredes
Horseman, Pass by by Larry McMurtry
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel by Americo Paredes
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
The Last Known Residence Of Mickey Acuña by Dagoberto Gilb
Strange Peaches by Edwin Shrake
In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas by Larry McMurtry
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
Moving on by Larry McMurtry
Waterloo: A Novel by Karen Olsson
The Color Of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction by Jake Silverstein
All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long
Charade by Sandra Brown
The Haunting of Pico by Patrick Kampman
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
Roses by Leila Meacham
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall
Blithe Images by Nora Roberts
Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre (ist book of series)
Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez
Standoff by Sandra Brown
Derby Girl by Shauna Cross (aka "Whip It")
Blissful, Texas by Liz Ireland
Cloudy in the West by Elmer Kelton
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (partially)
Under Her Skin by Susan Mallery (1st book in series)
Miss You Most of All by Elizabeth Bass
Morning Glory Diary of an Alien Abductee by Gloria Ann Hawker
Soul Bonds by Lynn Lorenz (1st book in series)
The Texas Ranger by Diana Palmer
Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert (1st book in series)
Already Home by Susan Mallery
Holes by Louis Sachar
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle
A Lady Like Sarah by Margaret Brownley (1st book in series)
Once a Cowboy by Linda Warren
Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles
Texas Cooking by Lisa Wingate (1st book in series)
Texas by James A. Michener
Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Texas! Lucky by Sandra Brown
Fancy Pants by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1st book in series)

Borderline by Nevada Barr

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

Rainwater by Sandra Brown

Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr

Pivot Point by Kasie West

Ruby by Cynthia Bond

Shattered Souls by Mary Lindsey

More books set in Texas:



Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by Gail Collins
Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee by Carolyn Brown (1st in Cadillac, Texas series)
Bond of Blood by Diane Whiteside (1st book of Texas Vampires series)
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez
Buck Fever by Ben Rehder (1st Blanco County Mystery)
The Buckskin Line by Elmer Kelton (1st book in Texas Rangers series)
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch
Cold in July by Joe R. Lansdale
Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry
Don't Mess with Texas by Christie Craig (1st book in Hotter in Texas series)
The Drowning House by Elizabeth Black
Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg (1st book in Katie Nash series)
Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
The Evening Star by Larry McMurtry
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (1st book in Calpurnia Tate series)
Fancy Pants by Cathy Marie Hake (1st book in Only in Gooding series)
Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine (1st book of The Morganiville Vampires series)
The First Days by Rhiannon Frater (1st book in As the World Dies series)
Full Steam Ahead by Karen Witemeyer
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Gone to Texas by Benjamin Franklin Carter
The Good Old Boys by Elmer Kelton
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative by John Graves
Head in the Clouds by Karen Witemeyer
The Heart of Texas by R.J. Scott (1st book in Texas series)
House of Earth by Woody Guthrie
How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
Lawless by Diana Palmer
Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Lie Still by Julia Heaberlin
Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach
Love on the Line by Deeanne Gist
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris (1st book in Midnight, Texas series)
Migratory Animals: A Novel by Mary Helen Specht
The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney
Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
The One & Only by Emily Giffin
The Outcasts: A Novel by Kathleen Kent
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin
Preacher, Vol. 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
The Promise: A Novel by Ann Weisgarber
Reboot by Amy Tintera (1st book in Reboot series)
Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston
The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel
Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer (1st book in Archer Brothers series)
Sixty Acres and a Bride by Regina Jennings (1st book in Ladies of Caldwell County series)
The Son by Philipp Meyer
South of Heaven by Jim Thompson
Streets Of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas (1st book of Travises series)
Sweet Surrender by Maya Banks (1st book of Sweet series)
The Sweetheart of Prosper County by Jill S. Alexander
A Tailor-Made Bride by Karen Witemeyer
Tales of Old-Time Texas by J. Frank Dobie
The Texan's Wager by Jodi Thomas (1st book in Wife Lottery series)
Texas Bride by Joan Johnston (1st book in Mail-Order Brides series)
Texas by the Tail by Jim Thompson
Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath (1st book in Leigh Brothers Texas Trilogy)
Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore (1st book in Goodnight Family series)
The Texas Rangers by Walter Prescott Webb
Texas Rich by Fern Michaels (1st book in Texas series)
Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution by Stephen L. Hardin
The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale
A Time to Stand: The Epic of the Alamo by Walter Lord
To Win Her Heart by Karen Witemeyer
Tomlinson Hill: Sons of Slaves, Sons of Slaveholders by Chris Tomlinson
Trauma Plan by Candace Calvert (1st book in Grace Medical series)
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Wanted by Kelly Elliott (1st book in Wanted series)
Welcome to Harmony by Jodi Thomas (1st book in Harmony series)
Welcome to Utopia by Karen Valby
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
Where I Belong by Gwendolyn Heasley
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

More books set in Texas:


Amigoland by Oscar Casares
The Big Blow by Joe R. Lansdale
The Big Country by Donald Hamilton
Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan (1st book in Tres Navarre)
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
Black Hat Jack by Joe R. Lansdale
The Boar by Joe R. Lansdale
Branches: A Novel by Mitch Cullin
Caballero: A Historical Novel by Jovita Gonzalez
Cherry by Mary Karr
The Cosmology of Bing: A Novel by Mitch Cullin
Einstein's Bridge by John G. Cramer
End Zone by Don DeLillo
Fearless: A Novel of Sarah Bowman by Lucia St. Clair Robson
A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale

More books set in Texas:



The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
Baby Shark by Robert Fate (1st book in Baby Shark series)
Beach Town Boogie by Bart Hopkins Jr.
Bleachers by John Grisham
Body and Bread by Nan Cuba
BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker
Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter (1st book in Shadow Falls series)
Bubba and the Dead Woman by C.L. Bevill (1st book in the Bubba Snoddy series)
Canyons by Gary Paulsen
Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement
Daisy's Back in Town by Rachel Gibson (1st book in the Lovett, Texas series)
Embers of Love by Tracie Peterson (1st book of Striking a Match series)
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge
The Franchise by Peter Gent
Friendswood by Rene Steinke
From This Wicked Patch of Dust by Sergio Troncoso
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore