Western
Western fiction is set in the American frontier and features themes like justice, survival, and rugged individualism.
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a stark, violent meditation on fate, morality, and the unraveling of a modern American landscape. Set in 1980s Texas, the novel follows Llewelyn Moss, a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and takes a suitcase full of money. He becomes the target of Anton Chigurh, a cold, remorseless killer with a twisted code of ethics. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, haunted by the past, attempts to bring order amid the chaos. With sparse, powerful prose and existential weight, McCarthy crafts a gripping tale of justice in a world losing its grip on meaning.
Lonesome Dove
Series: Lonesome Dove (#3)
More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dove is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America. Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers - Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love; of honour, loyalty and betrayal.