Westerns

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...

Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas...

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss....

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE “Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel about empires and erasures...

The first prequel in Larry McMurtry’s beloved Lonesome Dove series features the early adventures of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction. As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second prequel, following Dead Man’s Walk, to Larry McMurtry’s classic novel Lonesome Dove charts the harrowing careers of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call as they fight foes throughout the Texas territory and their own demons, setting up the events...

When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vulture, and Library Journal “This is an amazing...

In spite of its hard realities and spare telling, All the Pretty Horses is a lyrical and richly romantic story, chronicling - along with the erosion of the frontier - the loss of an era....

A New York Times bestseller! They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs...

Zack's eighteenth birthday was tomorrow, but he wasn’t expecting a party. He needed to get away from the family cattle ranch as fast as he could. There was nothing for him at his home, and he'd prefer facing the unknown to staying.

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction...

A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along the Tennessee river....

"Impossible to put down.” —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the...

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr, and Robert B. Parker will love this outstanding...

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...

A pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.

In this thrilling novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the great Texas Rangers go on a no-holds-barred pursuit of the most dangerous killer ever to terrorize Texas. Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer. When a...

Walt Longmire, sheriff of Absaroka County, investigates a series of eccentric small-town crises in fifteen holiday-inspired stories. An old dog mysteriously escapes the animal shelter night after night. A deputy deploys an unexpected diversion during a hostage standoff.

Tyrel Sackett was born into trouble but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a...

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who travel to the Western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians....

Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost and encounters one of his most baffling cases in Wyoming’s brutal and unforgiving Red Desert. When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes missing the question...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people...

In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time gives us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic Western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, 16-year-old Billy...

In the 1870s, Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west.....

A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893. Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she is determined to endure the brutal frontier and create a life of her own. Guarding her solitude, she distances herself from bordering homesteaders and finds peace under the starry nights of the vast frontier. But this is outlaw country, and Minnie soon has the blood of two gunfighters on her hands.

They came out of the sun and through the dust cloud created by the herd, firing their Winchesters and killing the men who were moving the cattle to Abilene. Each man fell just minutes after the attack began, and the stampeding cattle finished the job that the rustlers’ .44s had started. Just hours later, the herd was already gone, the dust settled, and bodies were strewn along the ground. But one stirred and would never forget what he saw as his eyes opened.

The Dust Bowl sweeps a handsome stranger into a small Colorado town to dangerous effect "...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on Westering Women 1937. It’s been seven years since the dust storms started in Colorado. Folks can barely remember a time when the clouds were...

Zack's eighteenth birthday was tomorrow, but he wasn’t expecting a party. He needed to get away from the family cattle ranch as fast as he could. There was nothing for him at his home, and he'd prefer facing the unknown to staying. Yet he knew that in leaving, he was taking the easy way out and should stay to protect his stepmother and brothers. He may have rationalized that he could do more if he left, but that voice in the back of his head kept whispering “coward.”

A forced proximity stand-alone from small-town romance author Brooke Montgomery about a cowboy who’s ready to settle down and the single mom who’s used to doing everything alone, but reluctantly takes his help when a threat looms… I met him at a wedding and his Southern charm quickly swept me off my feet—and into his bed. The following morning, I bailed before he woke up and never planned to see him again. As a single mom of two, my priorities are my kids, work, and school. Dating isn't even on my radar. But when a man comes after my son and follows us home, we’re forced into hiding.

HE CAME TO BUILD. THEY CAME TO DESTROY. Conn thought the killing was behind him. Back at the homestead, he plans to put his head down and work. He needs to help Mary prepare for winter and prove up land of his own. After everything he’s survived, he wants a quiet life. But trouble has a way of finding him. Vengeful kin are gunning for him. Whip Bolan has a score to settle. And a new, dangerous force is pushing into the valley. Conn isn’t looking for another fight. But if one comes to him, he’ll finish it. Conn 3 is another classic John Deacon Western with a touch of romance.

This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather—except this story doesn't begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead, The Descendant begins with a big, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters.

Slash and Pecos match wits with the wiliest opponent they’ve ever had—a wickedly smart woman who can’t be caught—in their wildest western adventure yet. It sounds like an easy job: track down the lady friend of notorious outlaw Duke Winter and bring her in for questioning. There’s just...

A family curse. A frontier reckoning. And a darkness that remembers every sin. RC Sandoval didn’t return to Clayton, New Mexico, looking for redemption. After the divorce and the war, he wanted quiet. But when his estranged father dies, RC inherits the remote high‑desert ranch he grew up on—and the secrets buried beneath it. Something is wrong on the land. Cattle won’t settle. Tracks appear where nothing should walk. Shadows move with intent. And when bodies begin turning up—torn apart in ways no predator could manage—RC realizes the past he tried to escape has teeth. Something ...

The Empire of Tiraas has spent ages casting off its sword-and-sorcery shackles in favor of high finance, practical magic, and keeping those with power in power. Everything is malleable in the name of progress. And those that cannot be bent can easily be broken—quite painfully if necessary. But far away on the frontier, anything goes. And the University has not ceased instructing would-be adventurers on the finer points of unlocking their potential as elves, warriors, paladins, pirates, half-demons, and anything else the empire considers a threat.

The lone girl of the family doesn’t think the McQuaid legacy of love can be hers. But is it within her reach after all? As the event manager for Healing Springs Ranch, Emberly McQuaid works hard to prove her worth to her family. When an international banking group arrives at the ranch and her best personal concierge falls ill, Emberly has no choice but to step in and assist their most illustrious guest, the young and handsome CEO, Max Berg.

The Oregon Trail stretched over two thousand miles—a brutal, unforgiving journey that took six grueling months. The first pioneers faced relentless hardships, burying their dead along the way. Without the mountain men who first blazed the trails, many would have perished. Zach Connors, better known as Grizzly Killer, and his partners agree to guide a group of missionaries to Oregon.

Elinor Ashcroft was only eight when masked men tore her from her family, and ended up being raised among a tribe of Natives. She grows into a fierce survivor loyal to the mother and brothers who saved her, even as hunger, danger, and the spread of white settlement close in from every side… Pinkerton Nathaniel Boone is sent west to recover a missing heiress, hoping the case will prove he is ready to stand on his own after his mentor’s death. Yet when he finally finds Elinor, he discovers a woman who wants nothing from her old life—and a trail of secrets that reaches far beyond a ...

Texas Ranger Buck Dallas was meant to die. With fellow Ranger Lane Newsome at his side, Buck rides a haunted trail across a hollow frontier—one stripped of mercy, scarred by blood, and hunted by things older than men. Their mission: find a missing girl named River and deliver a pregnant woman to a hidden spring that may be salvation… or something far worse. As the riders press deeper into Comancheria, they're joined by mystics, mercenaries, and broken souls—each with something to lose, and none guaranteed to survive.

Justice rides the outlaw trail. Curly Barnes is enjoying a peaceful life as the sheriff of Silver Vein, the most peaceful town in West Texas. But when rustlers come to town and strike the T Bar and Box W ranches, Curly has no choice but to strap on his gun-belt, provision himself with plenty of beef jerky and bourbon, and, with the help of his two trusty deputies, Baxter and Merle, go after the rustlers. Curly knows where the rustlers are going. Rattlesnake Ridge.

When Technology Is Hard To Come By, It Helps If Yours Is Built In. Saddle up for a wild ride through the alien world of Blanken 9 in this electrifying fusion of Sci-Fi and Western! Zestrum Doniphon is a good man with a bad reputation. A job offer from Claude Etcheverry, a wealthy rancher who has amassed a private army of cyborgs to monopolize Copperbank’s water supply, pulls Doniphon into a budding range war.

Es ist das Jahr 1861 in der ostfriesischen Hafenstadt Emden. Zwischen dem Kaufmannslehrling Jan Winter und der Bauerntochter Wiebke Onnen entspinnt sich eine junge Liebe. Diese wird jedoch auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als sich Wiebkes Familie entschließt, nach Amerika auszuwandern ...

She rides west as a man. She returns as a force of justice. When Samantha Holloway’s husband vanishes chasing gold in California, she refuses to accept his disappearance. Determined to find him, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and disguises herself as a man to join a dangerous wagon train west. Now, Sam Holt is armed with a Hawken rifle and an iron will to find the truth. Her search leads her to Devil’s Basin and the lawless town of Calico Ridge, where her husband’s trail grows cold and rumors of betrayal swirl. She crosses paths with Jack Carver, a Union veteran turned deputy ...

A storm is coming to the Mojave Desert—and something in it is watching. Late at night on a desolate stretch of Interstate 15, travelers pass through the darkness without knowing what moves along the roadside. When a lone hitchhiker appears in the middle of a violent desert storm, the encounter seems like chance. But on this highway, chance has very little to do with what happens next. Hank has spent his life drifting from one bad decision to another, leaving destruction in his wake.

The Plainsman – The U.S. Marshal, chronicles Sam Jackson’s time serving as the U.S. Marshal for the western district of Texas. Sam and Nora move from Fort Apache to San Angelo, Texas. They find a home and get situated. Sam goes to investigate a complaint of a chicken thief. He follows the man only to discover that he has been captured by Apache. After putting the man out of his misery, Marshal Jackson goes after the Indians. Over the next couple of years, Sam tracks bank robbers, stagecoach bandits, and horse thieves. Along the way, a son, Cody, is born.

With all the swagger of a classic western, a legendary buffalo claims his rightful place among the genre's most iconic heroes. Meet Rathuun. Born in an idyllic canyon, tragedy strikes on his first day. A grizzly bear scatters the herd, devours his twin, and leaves him to shiver and die. But the buffalo calf with a white spot on his chin survives. The plains are changing fast. Wagons roll west in endless streams. Telegraph wires stretch across the horizon. Locomotives scream down polished rails, slicing through the earth.

Historical novel of old Texas (1830-1845)

Lawrence Thornhill lost an arm in a Kansas bank robbery gone wrong in 1875. If not for Ezra Tackett's quick thinking, he might have lost his life along with it. Now Ezra waits in a jail cell, condemned to hang for horse thievery. On the run from the U.S. Army, two vengeful brothers, and the weight of his own past, Thornhill robs a stagecoach. Among the stolen goods, he finds something that just might save his friend's neck and, if fortune favors him, his own.

He was supposed to die young. Instead, he became a legend. When William H. Bonney — the boy the world would come to call Billy the Kid — rides into Lincoln County, he’s just another drifter looking for a place to belong. But the frontier has a way of choosing its heroes, and its outlaws, long before they choose themselves. What begins as a fight for survival becomes a war that will carve Billy’s name into history. Betrayals, gun smoke, forbidden love, and the unforgiving desert shape him into the most hunted man in New Mexico. And when Sheriff Pat Garrett — once a friend, now a ...

GUNSMOKE IN TOMBSTONE A Tale of Dust, Blood, and the Last Stand of Wyatt Earp Tombstone was supposed to be a town of silver and opportunity. Instead, it became a battleground. When a strange darkness begins to seep from the hills beyond town, Wyatt Earp finds himself facing more than outlaws, drifters, and drunken cowhands. Something ancient has awakened beneath the desert — something that whispers, hunts, and hungers. And it has chosen him. As tensions rise between the Earps and the Clanton‑McLaury gang, the violence on the streets mirrors the growing unease in the earth itself. A ...