Lists of Bests: The Chronicle's "Western 100" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/68 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. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:38:31 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Angle of Repose (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2725 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2725"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/014016930X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wallace Stegner</div> Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2788"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140186409.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Sometimes a Great Notion http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2531 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2531"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140045295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Kesey</div> The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439227143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> The Big Sleep http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11237"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394758285.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122538385_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Chandler</div> Animal Dreams http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1210 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1210"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060921145.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531621_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18715 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18715"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679728899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076004030_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13897"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451523482.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nathanael West</div> Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18710 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18710"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679728759.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> The Ox-Bow Incident http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66073 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66073"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/061337164X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Walter Van Tilburg Clark</div> English Creek (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66074 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66074"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140084428.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivan Doig</div> Even Cowgirls Get the Blues http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15859 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15859"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/055334949X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057191833_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tom Robbins</div> Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19039 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19039"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067976402X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128589148_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Guterson</div> On the Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140042598.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131418748_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Joy Luck Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24372 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24372"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0804106304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amy Tan</div> Lonesome Dove http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17957 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17957"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067168390X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry McMurtry</div> McTeague: A Story of San Francisco http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66075 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66075"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451524217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frank Norris</div> My Name Is Aram (Hbj Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66076 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Saroyan</div> A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5008 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5008"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226500667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Norman Maclean</div> The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12850 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12850"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0441478123.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124229546_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> Coyote Waits (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66077 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66077"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061099325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tony Hillerman</div> Play It As It Lays : A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8584 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8584"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374521719.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan Didion</div> The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1446 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1446"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060956445.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414560_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Abbey</div> Vineland (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3441 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3441"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141180633.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div> Earth Abides http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13439 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13439"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0449213013.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by GEORGE R. STEWART</div> Crooked Little Heart: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10330 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491808.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122537314_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Lamott</div> The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66078 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66078"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679768084.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ross Macdonald</div> Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18639 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18639"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722319.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464877_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Carver</div> Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18704 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18704"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679727892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maxine Hong Kingston</div> L.A. Confidential http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13290 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13290"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446674249.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V63915615_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Ellroy</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15719"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553273914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64368 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64368"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1887178384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gina Berriault</div> Rumors of Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66079 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66079"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060913010.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414464_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ella Leffland</div> The River Why http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66080 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66080"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0871563215.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David James Duncan</div> Riders of the Purple Sage (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66081 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66081"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812966120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zane Grey</div> Shane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15702 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15702"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553271105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JACK SCHAEFER</div> Stones for Ibarra (Contemporary American Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46210 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46210"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140075623.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672752_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Doerr</div> The Big Sky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17179 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17179"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0618154639.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. B. Guthrie Jr.</div> Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11322 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11322"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0395500761.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Brautigan</div> House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1326 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1326"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931949.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by N. Scott Momaday</div> The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24574 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24574"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805063749.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Nichols</div> LAST TYCOON (Last Tycoon Hre) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66082 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fitzgerald</div> Oil! (California Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66083 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66083"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520207270.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> Mariette in Ecstasy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1555 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1555"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060981180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Hansen</div> The Virginian http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66084 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66084"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812580400.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Owen Wister</div> A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6404 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6404"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421850.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Dorris</div> Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2576 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2576"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140086838.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1131479965_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leslie Marmon Silko</div> Hawaii http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13440 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13440"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0449213358.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JAMES A. MICHENER</div> The Postman Always Rings Twice http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38655 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/38655"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679723250.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464881_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James M. Cain</div>