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

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

  3. 3.
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    by Ken Kesey

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

  5. 5.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  6. 6.
    Animal Dreams
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

  9. 9.
    Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
    by Cormac McCarthy

  10. 10.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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

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

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

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

  15. 15.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

  16. 16.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  17. 17.
    Lonesome Dove
    by Larry McMurtry

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

  19. 19.
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    My Name Is Aram (Hbj Modern Classics)
    by William Saroyan

  20. 21.
    The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  21. 22.
    Coyote Waits (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)
    by Tony Hillerman

  22. 23.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  23. 24.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
    by Edward Abbey

  24. 25.
    Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  25. 26.
    Earth Abides
    by GEORGE R. STEWART

  26. 27.
    Crooked Little Heart: A Novel
    by Anne Lamott

  27. 28.
    The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
    by Ross Macdonald

  28. 29.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

  29. 30.
    Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
    by Maxine Hong Kingston

  30. 31.
    L.A. Confidential
    by James Ellroy

  31. 32.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

  32. 33.
    Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
    by Gina Berriault

  33. 34.
    Rumors of Peace
    by Ella Leffland

  34. 35.
    The River Why
    by David James Duncan

  35. 36.
    Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics)
    by Zane Grey

  36. 37.
    Shane
    by Jack Schaefer

  37. 38.
    Stones for Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Harriet Doerr

  38. 39.
    The Big Sky
    by A. B. Guthrie Jr.

  39. 41.
    House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics)
    by N. Scott Momaday

  40. 42.
    The Milagro Beanfield War
    by John Nichols

  41. 43.
    The Last Tycoon
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  42. 44.
    Oil! (California Fiction)
    by Upton Sinclair

  43. 45.
    Mariette in Ecstasy
    by Ron Hansen

  44. 46.
    The Virginian
    by Owen Wister

  45. 47.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

  46. 48.
    Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

  47. 49.
    Hawaii
    by JAMES A. MICHENER

  48. 50.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain

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