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World's Biggest Bookstore's Alternative Westerns

A list of alternative/literary Western novels, as displayed at Toronto’s WBB in September 2006.

1. Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
by Cormac McCarthy
 
2. In the Rogue Blood
by James Carlos Blake
 
3. Smonk: A Novel
by Tom Franklin
 
4. Cottonwood: A Novel
by Scott Phillips
 
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Hell at the Breach
by Tom Franklin
 
6. True Grit
by Charles Portis
 
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
by Ron Hansen
 
8. Desperadoes
by Ron Hansen
 
9. Valdez Is Coming
by Elmore Leonard
 
10. Woe to Live on
by Daniel Woodrell
 
11. Deadwood
by Pete Dexter
 
12. The Big Sky
by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
 
13. Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger
 
14. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
by Jim Fergus
 
15. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
by Michael Ondaatje
 
16. Warlock (New York Review Books Classics)
by Oakley Hall
 
17. Lost Nation
by Jeffrey Lent
 
18. Close Range : Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx
 
19. Monte Walsh
by Jack Warner Schaefer
 
20. Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Larry McMurtry
 
21. Jubilee Trail
by Gwen Bristow
 
22. Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics)
by Zane Grey
 
23. The Gates of the Alamo
by Stephen Harrigan
 
24. The Ox-Bow Incident (Modern Library MM)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
 
25. The Last Crossing: A Novel
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
 
26. The Sheep Queen: A Novel
by Thomas Savage
 
27. The Power of the Dog : A Novel
by Thomas Savage
 
28. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
by Owen Wister
 
29. The Sound of the Trees: A Novel
by Robert Payne Gatewood
 
30. Lightning
by Fred Stenson
 
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Created by rjwheaton on Sep 23, 2006.