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.

Ryder (Lucky River Ranch #5)
Chasing the Fire (Silver Pines Ranch, #5)
In the Great Quiet
Boots Beneath Her Bed
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Prospector's Peak (Saddles & Spurs #3)
The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
Darling Daffodils Farm (Hope Harbor, #1)
Love Grows Wild
Unraveled (Redford Ranch, #3)
Wilde Ride (Love is a Cowboy #2)
The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier
The Harvey Girl
Fight for Us (Pinecrest, Montana #1)
Need You Close (Second Chance Ranch, #3)
Ryder (Lucky River Ranch #5)
In the Great Quiet
Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)
Chasing the Fire (Silver Pines Ranch, #5)
Whisper Sweet Nothings (Rosewood River, #6)
Riding the High (Silver Pines Ranch, #3)
Darling Daffodils Farm (Hope Harbor, #1)
Love Grows Wild
Between the Pines (Black Springs Ranch, #1)
In a Heartbeat (Rosewood River, #5)
High Water (The Quiet Horsemen #4)
Come What May (Ember Falls #4)
Burning Skies (Wild at Heart #3)
At Whit's End (Wells Ranch, #4)
Chasing the Sun (Star Harbor #1)
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Christian Indie Authors
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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
435 books — 642 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
290 books — 399 voters
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Indie Mysteries, Thrillers, Westerns
601 books — 539 voters

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Best Humorous Historical Romances
813 books — 1,278 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)
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2)
No Country for Old Men
Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch, #1)
Hondo
Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
Butcher's Crossing

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