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Texas Books
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News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as texas)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,194 ratings — published 2016
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as texas)
avg rating 4.58 — 239,920 ratings — published 1985
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as texas)
avg rating 4.30 — 977,765 ratings — published 2021
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as texas)
avg rating 4.03 — 37,863 ratings — published 2013
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as texas)
avg rating 4.06 — 146,302 ratings — published 1992
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as texas)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,987 ratings — published 2018
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as texas)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,210 ratings — published 2017
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as texas)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,301 ratings — published 1999
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as texas)
avg rating 4.17 — 246,864 ratings — published 2005
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as texas)
avg rating 4.25 — 67,232 ratings — published 2010
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as texas)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,140,817 ratings — published 2021
Valentine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as texas)
avg rating 3.76 — 44,797 ratings — published 2020
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as texas)
avg rating 4.35 — 650,554 ratings — published 2011
The Last Picture Show (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as texas)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,281 ratings — published 1966
Listen for the Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as texas)
avg rating 4.07 — 519,319 ratings — published 2024
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as texas)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,991 ratings — published 2021
Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)
by (shelved 74 times as texas)
avg rating 3.88 — 91,962 ratings — published 2015
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as texas)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,361,995 ratings — published 1998
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as texas)
avg rating 4.00 — 35,840 ratings — published 2009
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as texas)
avg rating 4.15 — 219,771 ratings — published 1985
Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as texas)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,152 ratings — published 1968
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as texas)
avg rating 3.90 — 200,924 ratings — published 2012
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as texas)
avg rating 4.29 — 675,846 ratings — published 2012
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as texas)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,751 ratings — published 1959
The Bodyguard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as texas)
avg rating 3.94 — 394,266 ratings — published 2022
The Liars' Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as texas)
avg rating 3.94 — 71,962 ratings — published 1995
Friday Night Lights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as texas)
avg rating 4.14 — 66,615 ratings — published 1988
On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as texas)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,522 ratings — published 2021
Olympus, Texas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as texas)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,183 ratings — published 2021
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as texas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,072,867 ratings — published 2020
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as texas)
avg rating 4.34 — 612,963 ratings — published 2025
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as texas)
avg rating 3.63 — 6,917 ratings — published 2016
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as texas)
avg rating 3.79 — 31,039 ratings — published 2012
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as texas)
avg rating 3.96 — 262,796 ratings — published 2002
Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)
by (shelved 43 times as texas)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,504 ratings — published 2001
Simon the Fiddler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as texas)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,768 ratings — published 2020
The Gates of the Alamo (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as texas)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,857 ratings — published 2000
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as texas)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,222 ratings — published 1993
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as texas)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,234 ratings — published 2009
Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (The Texas Bookshelf)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.57 — 565 ratings — published 2019
Terms of Endearment (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,594 ratings — published 1975
Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2)
by (shelved 36 times as texas)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,719 ratings — published 2019
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as texas)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,224,491 ratings — published 2019
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as texas)
avg rating 4.43 — 26,605 ratings — published 1982
The Time It Never Rained (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as texas)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,239 ratings — published 1973
Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as texas)
avg rating 3.74 — 38,036 ratings — published 2014
Horseman, Pass By (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as texas)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,495 ratings — published 1961
“The second day I was in Texas. I was traveling through the part where the flat-footed, bilious, frog-sticker-toting Baptist biscuit-eaters live. Then I was traveling through the part where the crook-legged, high-heeled, gun-wearing, spick-killing, callous-rumped sons of the range live and crowd the drugstore on Saturday night and then all go round the corner to see episode three of "Vengeance on Vinegar Creek," starring Gene Autry as Borax Pete. But over both parts, the sky was tall hot brass by day and black velvet by night, and Coca Cola is all a man needs to live on.”
― All the King's Men
― All the King's Men
“Special Agent Brad Wolgast hated Texas. He hated everything about it.
[...] He hated the billboards and the freeways and the faceless subdivisions and the Texas flag, which flew over everything, always as big as a circus tent; he hated the giant pickup trucks everybody drove, no matter that gas was thirteen bucks a gallon and the world was slowly seaming itself to death like a package of peas in a microwave. He hated the boots and the belts and the way people talked, ya'll this and ya'll that, as if they spent the day ropin' and ridin', not cleaning teeth and selling insurance and doing the books, like people did everywhere.”
― The Passage
[...] He hated the billboards and the freeways and the faceless subdivisions and the Texas flag, which flew over everything, always as big as a circus tent; he hated the giant pickup trucks everybody drove, no matter that gas was thirteen bucks a gallon and the world was slowly seaming itself to death like a package of peas in a microwave. He hated the boots and the belts and the way people talked, ya'll this and ya'll that, as if they spent the day ropin' and ridin', not cleaning teeth and selling insurance and doing the books, like people did everywhere.”
― The Passage















