10 Western Novels

They’re a little on the weird side, but then the mythological American West is already an imagined nonentity. Some lean on the fantastical, others dirty and gritty. Here’s the list.

The Garden by Aidan Scott

Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams

The Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudy Wurlitzer

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Haint Stay by Colin Winnette

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs

Bouncer by Alexandro Jodorowsky

The Etched City by KJ Bishop

In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake

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