hey /lit/, what are some good Western novels?
>>8618259
More importantly, are there any good western novels that don't have famous movie adaptations tied to them?
>>8618277
McCarthy
Edward Abbey
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt. Read it before 2017 so it fulfills the 'don't have famous movie adaptations tied to them' condition.
>>8618259
There aren't any, really. Westerners have never understood how to write novels; they're temperament is more suited to the short story, the sonnet, or the shit post.
>>8618358
Western as in cowboys you mong
>>8618259
Warlock.
butchers crossing is okay
>>8618259
riders of the purple sage by zane grey, the homesman by glendon swarthout, lonesome dove by larry mcmurty
Shane
If you wanna read the O.G. western, try The Virginian by Owen Smith
>>8620951
*Owen Wister, fuck