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Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
691 books — 242 voters
East by Edith PattouSun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day GeorgeIce by Sarah Beth DurstEast o' the Sun and West o' the Moon by Peter Christen AsbjørnsenThe Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
82 books — 187 voters

Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeySkinwalkers by Tony HillermanDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
Four Corners Country
333 books — 139 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady HendrixNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWest with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
52 Book Club 2025: #34 - Direction In The Title
382 books — 108 voters

The Beauty in Her Soul by Vesela PattonLittle House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderSarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlanLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderOn the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Children's Frontier Fiction
311 books — 100 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueEast of Eden by John SteinbeckNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellNorthern Lights by Philip PullmanBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Cardinal Directions in Titles
819 books — 50 voters

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartTomboy Bride by Harriet Fish BackusWe Pointed Them North by E.C. "Teddy Blue" AbbottDoc Susie by Virginia CornellA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. Alderson
The Old West in First Person
269 books — 48 voters
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanBy the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid FleischmanOne Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-GarciaSeeds of Hope by Kristiana Gregory
Children's Historical Fiction set in California
198 books — 39 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryRiders of the Purple Sage by Zane GreyThe Time It Never Rained by Elmer KeltonThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittThe Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
My 10 Favorite Westerns
93 books — 38 voters
Ice Cowboy by Rachelle VaughnMcKettrick's Heart by Linda Lael MillerMcKettrick's Luck by Linda Lael MillerFrontier Woman by Joan JohnstonLone Star Trouble by Autumn Piper
Best Western/Cowboy Romance PB Books
45 books — 29 voters

The Daily Coyote by Shreve StocktonGod's Dog by Hope RydenCoyote America by Dan FloresMoon Called by Patricia BriggsNew Coyote by Michael Bergey
Books about Coyotes
69 books — 26 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenEast of Eden by John SteinbeckNorthern Lights by Philip PullmanWest Side Story by Irving Shulman
Looking for Direction
153 books — 20 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderThe Lonesome Dove Chronicles by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles PortisLittle Big Man by Thomas BergerMy Ántonia by Willa Cather
Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Books About The West
181 books — 16 voters
PaperQuake by Kathryn ReissEarthquake in the Early Morning by Mary Pope OsborneEarthquake at Dawn Rev Pa by Kristiana GregoryThe Strange Case of Baby H by Kathryn ReissAftershocks by William Lavender
1906 San Francisco Earthquake in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
28 books — 9 voters

Cadillac Desert by Marc ReisnerDownriver by Heather HansmanA Story That Stands Like a Dam by Russell MartinDead Pool by James Lawrence PowellUpstream by Langdon Cook
Western water
86 books — 8 voters
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather FawcettThe Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Amelia WildeBeards and Babies by Heather LaurenThe Breathe Me Duet by C.R. JaneNever Say Never by Mayra Statham
Compass Covers
10 books — 8 voters

True Grit by Charles PortisO Pioneers! by Willa CatherMy Ántonia by Willa CatherWho Was Annie Oakley? by Stephanie SpinnerThe Colonel and Little Missie by Larry McMurtry
Women Heroes of the West
82 books — 3 voters
The Haunted Vintage by Marjorie BowenThe Sadist by Karl BergMurder at the Frankfurt Book Fair by Hubert MonteilhetThe Vintage Springtime Club by Beatrice MeierThe Mystery of the Stolen Plans by Manning Coles
Germany by State: North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse & Thuringia
71 books — 3 voters

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersAristophanes by John ClaughtonLysistrata by AristophanesApology by PlatoCrito (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Greek) by Plato
To Read: Great Books of the Western World--Year 1
25 books — 2 voters
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham JonesSacred Ground by D.A. GallowayPrairie Edge by Conor KerrJonny Appleseed by Joshua WhiteheadAmerican Buffalo by Steven Rinella
Bison / Buffalo Covers
7 books — 2 voters

Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake by John Gary Maxwell
Great Basin History
1 book — 1 voter
A Lone Star Christmas by William W. JohnstoneAn Arizona Christmas by William W. JohnstoneA Big Sky Christmas by William W. JohnstoneA Colorado Christmas by William W. JohnstoneA Death Valley Christmas by William W. Johnstone
Holiday Westerns by William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone
11 books — 1 voter

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