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.

Colt (Double U Ranch, #1)
Sunrise
Fallin' Tides (Holly River #1)
Picture This (Haven River Ranch, #2.5)
The Unheld
The Bodyguard's Fall (Falling for Autumn)
The Night Pool
Maple Mountain (Saddles & Spurs Book 4)
Wilde Hearts (Love is a Cowboy #4)
Love Wells Kept (Wells Ranch, #5)
Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)
The Case of Elmwood Ranch
One Last Rodeo (Willow Ridge #3)
Untamed: A Spicy Small Town Cowboy Romance (Wild Sage Ranch Book 1)
Wrangled by the Star (Hollow Hills Ranch #1)
Picture This (Haven River Ranch, #2.5)
What About Us (Silver Springs #2)
The Bodyguard's Fall (Falling for Autumn)
West of Forever (Heartstone Ranch #1)
Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)
Ryder (Lucky River Ranch, #5)
Romantic Hero
Calico
The Crossroads (Joe Pickett, #26)
Riding the High (Silver Pines Ranch, #3)
Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)
North Country (Cold River)
Dreams of Earth and Sky: A Novel
Sunrise
Blue Jean Summer (Wilder Estate #1)
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
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Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'ConnellAnnie's Song by Catherine AndersonComanche Moon by Catherine AndersonDancing on Coals by Ellen O'ConnellTexas Destiny by Lorraine Heath
Favorite Historical Western Romance Novels
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Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'ConnellDancing on Coals by Ellen O'ConnellTexas Destiny by Lorraine HeathMacKenzie Fire by Elle CaseySilver Lining by Maggie Osborne
Favorite Western/Cowboy Romance Novels
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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)
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
No Country for Old Men
Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch, #1)
Hondo
Butcher's Crossing

Annie Proulx
“ Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream. ”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

Erich Maria Remarque
“ No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck. ”
― Erich Maria Remarque

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