Western Fiction

New and recommended western fiction

Updated April 17, 2024
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Lucky Red : a novel
Cravens, Claudia
Paper Book
A feminist coming-of-age story from a debut author - playful, feminist historical fiction forreaders of Sarah Waters, Charles Portis and Anna North.
The sisters brothers
deWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.
Upright women wanted
Gailey, Sarah
Audiobook
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity."That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book...
The removed : a novel
Hobson, Brandon
Paper Book
"A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family's reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family's way home is full--in equal measure--of melancholy and love." --Tommy Orange, author of There There ...
Only killers and thieves : a novel
Howarth, Paul
Paper Book
A debut novel set in Australia in the 1880s. A gripping, moving story about the brutal reality of frontier life and the shocking treatment of an Aboriginal tribe.
Unbury Carol : a novel
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
"This one haunts you for reasons you can't quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers."-Kirkus Reviews Only three people know Carol Evers' secret. Her best friend, who's dead. Her...
The son
Meyer, Philipp
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one...
Outlawed : a novel
North, Anna
Paper Book
Inland : a novel
Obreht, Téa
Paper Book
Savage country : a novel
Olmstead, Robert
Ebook
"The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . ." Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his...
Sarah Jane
Sallis, James
Paper Book
Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory,...

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