(Part 2) Best western books according to redditors

I don't know if you only want fantasy recommendations, but Cormac is one of my favourite authors, so maybe you'd appreciate western, frontier and historical fiction recommendations? If so - Lonesome Dove for western, The Revenant for frontier, Wolf of the Plains (about Genghis Khan) when it comes to historical fiction.

All of them hit the spot for gritty resilience despite bleak circumstances (well, Lonesome Dove is lighter than the others and much less bleak but an amazing read if you haven't already, and definitely an example of resilience). There's also The Son for another gritty western. And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave, a southern gothic novel. There's others in a similar vein I'd consider recommending but I haven't read them yet...

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Those I haven't read yet but have heard great things about and their similarity to Cormac - Provinces of Night by William Gray (" Life blindsides you so hard you can taste the bright copper blood in your mouth then it beguiles you with a gift of profound and appalling beauty. ") and In the Rogue Blood by J. Blake... And more!

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Also please excuse my throwing in of one of mine - WULF - sci-fantasy/western with later dystopian themes in the series. A major theme of the series is about coming together to fatalistically and with gritted teeth plowing on through increasingly desperate and hopeless circumstances and lands (though not without a lot of wild adventure, gunfights and irreverent humour). Anyway, it's free to download! https://www.amazon.com/WULF-Weird-Sci-Fantasy-Western-Fifth-ebook/dp/B01NBLPFZF

I dropped back in to recommend Shane by Jack Schaefer. Such a good book.

Released my first novella, Beneath the Desert Willow, a couple of weeks ago. Two people bought it and I only know one of them. It's a western and I'm not Louis L'Amour so needless to say it's going about as good as it can.

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Bill Pronzini has some western mysteries but I haven't read any of them. On my list. Here's one:

https://www.amazon.com/Peaceful-Valley-Crime-Wave-Western-ebook/dp/B07GVBZ5D4

And people seem to like the Holmes on the Range series, but again I haven't read them.

https://www.amazon.com/Double-Western-Detective-Agency-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B07L1YY3VP

I've read a few Walt Slade books by Bradford Scott and they kind of have the structure of a mystery.

Hope that helps. I think the Western Mystery could be a cool genre if more people tried it. They seem hard to come by.

Love your username - I was at game 7!

This is more Judaism than Christianity but you might be interested in the Merkabah Rider series -- it's a Western that follows a Jewish mystic/gunslinger across the American Southwest. He's in his element when putting down Satanic threats. But then he discovers a more... ancient pantheon.

https://www.amazon.com/Merkabah-Rider-High-Planes-Drifter-ebook/dp/B07F667CNB/

A sci-fi setting but similar too MAD MAX on the surface. A mining world completely isolated from Prime Earth and the other Human colonies fall into a chaotic war for decades giving birth too new factions, the first book focuses on Harold Hess and his son soldiers of the Ranger's Union stationed in a Frontier town called West Point, notorious for being a target for Bandits, tribal and mutated creatures. Does help at the locals hate Ranger authority as well.

Link to the book is here, available at Amazon, I do plan too create a paperback soon so far it's only available as a eBook.
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07H88Z1NZ

Check out 52 Weeks, 52 Western Novels by Scott Harris & Paul Bishop for great recommendations and an overall review of the genre.

https://www.amazon.com/52-Weeks-%E2%80%A2-Western-Novels-ebook/dp/B07H3C7632/

Or peruse the excellent https://westernfictionreview.blogspot.com/

I recently read an indie Weird West book called Spellslinger by Joseph J. Bailey that fits the bill pretty well.

Hello! Matthew Moffitt here. I wrote a science fiction novel published by EDGE science fiction and fantasy publishing and I'm trying to get the word out!

Title: From Moon to Joshua.
Genres: Science Fiction, Western, Dystopian
Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M6CUXSD/edgescienceficti

Publisher's weekly even did a review: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-77053-128-4

Check it out. Thanks ya'll.

This monster of a title.