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...

The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years....

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 acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American...

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.

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...

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...

East Texas wasn’t much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering, he’s come back to farm the land that’s rightfully his. Only Cullen’s in for an unwelcome homecoming: his neighbors have long memories, the...

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...

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...

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.

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire....

Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw....

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to...

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...

Gabe Owens had been assigned to investigate a case of timber poaching near Missoula in Montana Territory that could have been handled by a less experienced agent of the railroad, but the case had changed dramatically after the apparent murder of the station manager.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND LITHUB! “This gifted Mexican writer … delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry … He’s one of the best we have.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times A...

In the lawless expanse of 1850s Kansas Territory, justice rides on the fastest draw—and nobody draws faster than Conner Smith.

In the late 1930s, 16-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico....

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...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf - only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down - in the thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box....

When an elderly local woman is found poisoned, Sheriff Walt Longmire begins an investigation that soon has him ensnared in a deadly spider's web....

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. For Preacher, that road begins at a remote trading post in the Bitterroot Mountains. At first, it's a friendly reunion with his old buddies Audie and Nighthawk. But then, a young Indian woman and her grandfather are attacked by a vicious gang of thieves—and all hell breaks loose.

1890. The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it. In the new city of Montaña Roja, Fred Harvey’s growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST AND LITHUB! “This gifted Mexican writer … delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry … He’s one of the best we have.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times A...

Rhody Jones, the first mate of the schooner, Vivienne, walked from the docks into the streets of New Orleans. He’d been dismissed by the captain after the ship had barely survived the incredible battering from a powerful hurricane. He could have signed on to another ship returning to New England, but he wanted to try something different. He wanted to make a land voyage across the Southwestern United States to California and then maybe take a ship out of San Francisco.

Conn Sullivan is working alongside Mary, rebuilding the homestead, when the telegram arrives. Junior Sheffield needs help. Conn rides to the logging boomtown of Stump Run, where he finds trouble stacked high as timber. Junior is gone. Some say he ran. Others say he’s dead. A few whisper he’s still here but hiding. Then a logger turns up dead in the river… and Junior becomes the prime suspect. Conn doesn’t buy it.

Clay Carson thought his outlaw days were behind him. Years ago, he rode with the fearsome Dirty Creek Gang—and robbed half the banks in Texas. But then a fatally bungled heist in Fort Worth brought it all crashing down. The gang broke up, went their separate ways, and that was the end of that. But today the past came calling for Carson in the form of a telegram. It’s from Lemuel Jones—his old gang leader—who asks him to do something reckless, stupid, and downright crazy: round up the old gang for one last ride.

Gabe Owens had been assigned to investigate a case of timber poaching near Missoula in Montana Territory that could have been handled by a less experienced agent of the railroad, but the case had changed dramatically after the apparent murder of the station manager. What made it difficult for Gabe was that the station manager may have been shot by his wife, a woman he’d proposed to years earlier.

Thaddeus Bolton sees himself as a cattle king. His ambitions are as big as the land and stock he just purchased near Smoke Jensen’s Sugarloaf ranch. Bolton and his family are friendly enough, although in the case of his wife Emmaline, perhaps too friendly. While her husband stakes his claim with plans to spread throughout the territory, she’s set her sights on Smoke. But fending her off is the least of Smoke’s worries when outlaws sweep across the valley on daring rustling raids—hitting every ranch except Bolton’s.

My bestie was off-limits until he kissed me and changed everything … Harrison Valentine is my best friend and the king of one-night stands. And hi—nice to meet you—I’m the queen of failed relationships. Commitment issues are something we have in common—or so I thought. Then, the devil delivers his Kiss of Death, and it puts me in a choke hold. I expect a f *ckboy, but he wants forever. And it scares me. When I finally see the magic we made together, it’s too late. Because he’s now engaged. To someone else.

Matt Hartley leaves the orphanage that raised him with a dream—to find the mythical town from his favorite book. He doesn't expect a young boy in his wagon, who refuses to be left behind. And he doesn't know that an outlaw from his parents' past is already on his trail… Claire Donnelly flees Missouri after her uncle's accidental death, terrified she'll be blamed. In Independence, she meets a scarred drifter with kind eyes and joins his wagon train heading west. Three strangers bound by secrets—and a road that will change them all… But the trail is unforgiving, and a dangerous outlaw...

DreamLand was supposed to be paradise—an engineered fantasy world where anything was possible. A place to step into adventure, live a story, and become a legend. For Samuel Jack, it was a chance to finally become the gunslinger he'd always dreamed of being. Then the gates locked. The screams started. And fantasy died. From somewhere deep within the amusement park, its creator—Rutherford Dwight Soros—pulls the strings.

Two years ago, James Bridger shot Zedd Hightower off a bridge and watched him fall into the river below. Then he buried his wife and tried to bury the rest. But now Hightower is back. He rules the deep bayou, commanding a network of smugglers and hired killers from an island stronghold no one enters without permission. Settlements pay to be left alone. Those who refuse are made into examples. When a young woman is taken from Cypress Bend, a battered midwife comes looking for a man. Rosalie Fontenot believes this man is the only one who can stop Hightower. Bridger. Only that Bridger wants no...

Corbyn was fond of Cassie. But she was young, and he’d always thought of her as a little sister. Lately, something had changed. Corbyn was busy running the clinic and taking care of his daughter, Rose. Since her mother left town, he was Rose’s primary caregiver. Fortunately, the whole family chipped in to help. Among those who helped was Cassie. Rose loved her, and Corbyn found himself eating at the café where Cassie worked more often than not.

Der Tagelöhner Robert Grainier, 1886 im Norden Amerikas geboren, erlebt hautnah die großen Umwälzungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem Einzug der Technik in den Alltag der Menschen verändert sich seine Welt unwiderruflich. Als Eisenbahnarbeiter ist Grainier Teil dieser Modernisierung, die jedoch auch ihre Opfer fordert. Eine persönliche Tragödie erschüttert sein Leben in den Grundfesten und stürzt ihn in tiefe Verzweiflung. In poetischer Sprache zeichnet Denis Johnson in seiner Novelle das eindringliche Bild einer Gesellschaft im Wandel.

Sam never wanted to go to war. Still, he went. He came home emotionally crippled.

Thorn Carter was only fifteen when he rode with Rob Sutton’s outlaw gang. By the time the blood dried, he’d had enough of killing. Now he rides fence lines outside Eden Springs, Wyoming, keeping his head low and his gun quiet. When Rob returns with the same gang – disguised as Cheyenne warriors – to raid ranches and drive settlers and natives toward open war, Thorn is forced to face the life he thought he’d left behind. In Eden Springs, half-Cheyenne schoolteacher Ginny Rivers refuses to believe the rumors. Fierce and principled, she protects her students from hatred and fear – ...

This preacher man is giving her something to believe in. When country singer Dixie Pearl’s van breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee, it feels like rock bottom. Sharp-tongued Dixie prides herself on her independence, but after recent health struggles, her dream of making it big has...

Deadshot buried his gun four years ago. The West dug it back up. Once the most feared bounty hunter on the frontier, Deadshot walked away after bringing in more outlaws than any man alive. At forty-nine, his body is worn, his hands ache, and the quiet life suits him just fine. He hunts, fishes, and keeps to himself – until a bleeding teenage boy stumbles out of the dark. Rider isn’t a fighter. He was meant to inherit his father’s ranch, not outrun the men who destroyed it. With his family taken and bandits on his trail, Rider’s only refuge is the cabin of a legend who swore he’d ...

Book Two in a trilogy. A gunman follows a widow to Missouri and tries to start a new life.

When the dam breaks above Thornton’s Creek, Jim Thornton loses everything. His parents are gone, his ranch is washed away, and his fiancée abandons him for a richer man. All that remains are a handful of desperate survivors, a herd of suspiciously branded cattle, and two hundred miles of unforgiving Colorado wilderness. Sarah Mitchell is no stranger to hardship and loss. When disaster strikes, she organizes the frightened townsfolk, tends the wounded, and refuses to give in to despair. She sees through Jim’s doubts and recognizes the leader he does not yet believe he can become. Jim ...

Fifteenth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent. In the tradition of the John Wayne classic westerns and legendary television series Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and Indian’s didn’t kill you...the person sitting next to you in the saloon just might...just for the hell of it. This series is presented as self-contained standalone story novels that do not have to be read in any particular order. It gives readers an entertaining glimpse into what individuals from all walks of life encountered as they ...

Anne hat alles verloren. Völlig am Ende kämpft sie sich Stück für Stück zurück ins Leben und stolpert schließlich in die Welt einer wandernden Wild-West-Show. Ihr Ruf als feurige, zielsichere Revolverheldin eilt ihr schon bald voraus. Wären da nicht die Dämonen ihrer Vergangenheit - ihr Leben könnte perfekt sein. Doch dann ist da auch noch Kaulder, der sie nicht mehr loslässt. Und der hat zu allem Überfluss noch eine Verabredung mit dem Galgen.

Wyatt is the first to approach the cell, but the force of the door bursting from its hinges sends him tumbling backward over the desk, with the door landing on him, caught at the edge of the desk. The noise draws the attention of everyone outside, yet no one moves to investigate. Inside, Doc Holliday and Luke Short have their weapons drawn and aimed at the cell, but they freeze at the sight unfolding before them: a wolf slowly emerges, its head lowered to fit its large body through the opening.

In the unforgiving wilds of 1830s Texas, Texas Wild tells the true-inspired story of Josiah Wilbarger, a surveyor and settler who survives one of the most harrowing ordeals in frontier history: being shot and scalped alive by Comanche warriors, left for dead, and miraculously enduring days of agony before rescue. The novel opens with Josiah and four companions riding out from Hornsby Station. They are ambushed in a brutal attack. Josiah is shot and scalped, left bleeding on the prairie as the others flee or fall.

Orphans, Outlaws, and Redemption in the Old West!(Looking for a prairie romance? Don’t look here!) A classic Western tale of Joshua and Jonathan Jackson, brothers orphaned during the Civil War. They needed someone to give them a chance, but the war-torn countryside and people had little to spare. After the war, the teen brothers headed West to find their fortunes and escape their past. Instead, they found a hard land and nobody willing to lend a hand. At every fork in the road, fear, grief, or pain prompted them to choose the wrong path.