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News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 188 times as texas)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,755 ratings — published 2016
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as texas)
avg rating 4.58 — 248,433 ratings — published 1985
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as texas)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,007,729 ratings — published 2021
The Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as texas)
avg rating 4.03 — 38,068 ratings — published 2013
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as texas)
avg rating 4.06 — 148,398 ratings — published 1992
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as texas)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,023 ratings — published 2018
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as texas)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,579 ratings — published 2017
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as texas)
avg rating 4.05 — 73,101 ratings — published 1999
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as texas)
avg rating 4.17 — 252,229 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 88 times as texas)
avg rating 4.25 — 68,363 ratings — published 2010
Valentine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as texas)
avg rating 3.76 — 45,541 ratings — published 2020
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as texas)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,161,574 ratings — published 2021
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as texas)
avg rating 4.35 — 665,579 ratings — published 2011
The Last Picture Show (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as texas)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,581 ratings — published 1966
Listen for the Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as texas)
avg rating 4.07 — 550,240 ratings — published 2024
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as texas)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,370,181 ratings — published 1998
Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)
by (shelved 75 times as texas)
avg rating 3.88 — 92,190 ratings — published 2015
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as texas)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,102 ratings — published 2021
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as texas)
avg rating 4.00 — 35,900 ratings — published 2009
Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as texas)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,167 ratings — published 1968
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as texas)
avg rating 4.15 — 225,307 ratings — published 1985
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as texas)
avg rating 3.90 — 201,689 ratings — published 2012
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as texas)
avg rating 4.28 — 679,946 ratings — published 2012
The Bodyguard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as texas)
avg rating 3.94 — 408,378 ratings — published 2022
The Liars' Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as texas)
avg rating 3.94 — 72,253 ratings — published 1995
Goodbye to a River: A Narrative (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 61 times as texas)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,770 ratings — published 1959
Friday Night Lights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as texas)
avg rating 4.14 — 67,087 ratings — published 1988
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as texas)
avg rating 4.33 — 734,519 ratings — published 2025
On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as texas)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,608 ratings — published 2021
Olympus, Texas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as texas)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,481 ratings — published 2021
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as texas)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,093,655 ratings — published 2020
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as texas)
avg rating 3.63 — 6,975 ratings — published 2016
Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)
by (shelved 45 times as texas)
avg rating 3.96 — 263,377 ratings — published 2002
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as texas)
avg rating 3.79 — 31,101 ratings — published 2012
Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)
by (shelved 44 times as texas)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,521 ratings — published 2001
Simon the Fiddler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as texas)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,842 ratings — published 2020
Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as texas)
avg rating 4.12 — 27,247 ratings — published 1993
The Gates of the Alamo (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as texas)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,874 ratings — published 2000
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as texas)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,268 ratings — published 2009
Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (The Texas Bookshelf)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.57 — 571 ratings — published 2019
Red, White & Royal Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,239,132 ratings — published 2019
Terms of Endearment (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,790 ratings — published 1975
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.43 — 26,822 ratings — published 1982
The Time It Never Rained (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as texas)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,281 ratings — published 1973
Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2)
by (shelved 36 times as texas)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,830 ratings — published 2019
Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as texas)
avg rating 3.74 — 38,171 ratings — published 2014
Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as texas)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,523 ratings — published 2007
“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
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.
Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years.
And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.”
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Wait—Texas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered? Didn't its governor declare, during his re-election campaign, that 'we have billions in surplus'? Yes, it was, and yes, he did. But reality has now intruded, in the form of a deficit expected to run as high as $25 billion over the next two years.
And that reality has implications for the nation as a whole. For Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting—the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending—has been implemented most completely. If the theory can't make it there, it can't make it anywhere.”
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