The Chronicle's "Western 100"

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Polling began July 29 for The Chronicle Western 100, our list of the best 20th century fiction written in or about—or by an author from—the Western United States. Since then balloting has been declared officially over at least twice, each time followed by still more reader nominations just too shrewd to exclude.

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  1. 1.
    Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner

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  2. 2.
    Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  3. 3.
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    by Ken Kesey

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  4. 4.
    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

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  5. 5.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  6. 6.
    Animal Dreams
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  7. 7.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  8. 8.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

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  9. 10.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  10. 11.
    The Ox-Bow Incident
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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  11. 12.
    English Creek (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Ivan Doig

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  12. 13.
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    by Tom Robbins

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  13. 14.
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson

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  14. 15.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

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  15. 16.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  16. 17.
    Lonesome Dove
    by Larry McMurtry

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  17. 18.
    McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
    by Frank Norris

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    My Name Is Aram (Hbj Modern Classics)
    by William Saroyan

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  19. 21.
    The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  20. 22.
    Coyote Waits (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
    by Tony Hillerman

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  21. 23.
    Play It As It Lays : A Novel
    by Joan Didion

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  22. 24.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
    by Edward Abbey

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  23. 25.
    Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  24. 26.
    Earth Abides
    by GEORGE R. STEWART

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  25. 27.
    Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
    by Anne Lamott

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  26. 28.
    The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Ross Macdonald

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  27. 29.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  28. 30.
    Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

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  29. 31.
    L.A. Confidential
    by James Ellroy

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  30. 32.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

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  31. 33.
    Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
    by Gina Berriault

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  32. 34.
    Rumors of Peace
    by Ella Leffland

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  33. 35.
    The River Why
    by David James Duncan

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  34. 36.
    Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics)
    by Zane Grey

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  35. 37.
    Shane
    by JACK SCHAEFER

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  36. 38.
    Stones for Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Harriet Doerr

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  37. 39.
    The Big Sky
    by A. B. Guthrie Jr.

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  38. 41.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday

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  39. 42.
    The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel
    by John Nichols

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    LAST TYCOON (Last Tycoon Hre)
    by Fitzgerald

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  41. 44.
    Oil! (California Fiction)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  42. 45.
    Mariette in Ecstasy
    by Ron Hansen

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  43. 46.
    The Virginian
    by Owen Wister

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  44. 47.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

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  45. 48.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

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  46. 49.
    Hawaii
    by JAMES A. MICHENER

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  47. 50.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain

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