Best Western Fiction (in my opinion)
Slogum House – Mari Sandoz
The Homesman – Glendon Swarthout
Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurry
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
Death Comes to the Archbishop – Willa Cather
News of the World – Paulette Jiles
The Wind – Dorothy Scarborough
Books that have wide critical acclaim, and I’m not so sure of:
The Shootist – Glendon Swarthout. Great premise – I mean, who isn’t interested in a dying gunslinger? I actually liked the end – although John Wayne didn’t…but beyond that, I’m not sold.
