Lists of Bests: The Chronicle's "Western 100"

Send to Printer The Chronicle's "Western 100" 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. (found at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/11/DD16098.DTL&type=books)
Pages: Pages: 1 2
	1.		Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) by Wallace Stegner
	2.		Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
	3.		Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
	4.		The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) by Jack London
	5.		The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
	6.		Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
	7.		Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
	8.		The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) by Nathanael West
	9.		Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International) by Cormac Mccarthy
	10.		The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
	11.		The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
	12.		English Creek (Contemporary American Fiction) by Ivan Doig
	13.		Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
	14.		Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson
	15.		On the Road by Jack Kerouac
	16.		The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
	17.		Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
	18.		McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris
	19.	?	My Name Is Aram (Hbj Modern Classics) by William Saroyan
	20.		A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Norman Maclean
	21.		The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) by Ursula K. Le Guin
	22.		Coyote Waits (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) by Tony Hillerman
	23.		Play It As It Lays : A Novel by Joan Didion
	24.		The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics) by Edward Abbey
	25.		Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thomas Pynchon
	26.		Earth Abides by GEORGE R. STEWART
	27.		Crooked Little Heart: A Novel by Anne Lamott
	28.		The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Ross Macdonald
	29.		Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
	30.		Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston
	31.		L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
	32.		The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
	33.		Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault
	34.		Rumors of Peace by Ella Leffland
	35.		The River Why by David James Duncan
	36.		Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics) by Zane Grey
	37.		Shane by JACK SCHAEFER
	38.		Stones for Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction) by Harriet Doerr
	39.		The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
	40.		Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
	41.		House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics) by N. Scott Momaday
	42.		The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel by John Nichols
	43.	?	LAST TYCOON (Last Tycoon Hre) by Fitzgerald
	44.		Oil! (California Fiction) by Upton Sinclair
	45.		Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
	46.		The Virginian by Owen Wister
	47.		A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel by Michael Dorris
	48.		Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Leslie Marmon Silko
	49.		Hawaii by JAMES A. MICHENER
	50.		The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists. Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.