Western
Sword of Truth
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1900: Zulfiqar Jaffrey, homesteader and sometimes private detective, is abruptly summoned by telegram from his North Dakota holding to faraway California, where a Punjabi ...Read Review
Lost and Broken Things
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Winner of the 2026 Spur Award for Best Traditional Western, Linda Sandifer’s novel is both heartwarming and unsentimentally real in its depiction of ...Read Review
Whiskey Woods
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This book, set in post-Civil War Texas, contains all the required elements of the genre: a lanky hero slow to violence, but exceptionally ...Read Review
The Sleepers
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Sturdevant’s riveting novel will stick with readers long after they finish her last page. Inspired by true events, she captures the atmosphere ...Read Review
The Beauty of the Days Gone By
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West Texas in the 1860s is as dangerous (if not more so) for people than the war-torn eastern part of the country during ...Read Review
Days of Sun and Shadow
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In 1813, Emilie is born with “the sight,” something only her Scottish grandmother understands. Because Emilie’s mother blames Emilie for the deaths of ...Read Review
The Night Pool
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Smith’s Old West gothic intertwines the destruction of the indigenous way of life, and the last gasps of the Gold Rush in 1865, ...Read Review
Treat Them As Buffalo
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In 1885, Niko Eriksen has little to worry about, secure in his maternal family until his cousin Guillaume is kidnapped. His world is upended ...Read Review
Sunrise
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Obreht’s electrifying novel opens in summer 2024, in the aftermath of a plane crash. Nina, a New York-based grad student and nanny, was ...Read Review
Now I Surrender
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Alternate HistoryLiteraryWestern
Past and present come together to tell a very different story of how the West was won in Álvaro Enrigue’s brutal yet ...Read Review
