Best Literary Westerns and Detective Novels

Explore the best literary Westerns and detective novels with our curated list of top books. Discover gripping tales of frontier justice and thrilling mysteries from classic and contemporary authors.

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Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
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The Ruined Map

by Kobo Abe

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that …
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the …
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Outer Dark

by Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is …
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Lonesome Dove

by Larry McMurtry

Tells of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and shows how one man's dream to create an empire affects others.