Suggestions from Tex on some of his favorite reads with image links to listings on Amazon.

First, five novels from San Angelo’s own Elmer Kelton:

The Time It Never Rained

The Good Old Boys

Pecos Crossing

Barbed Wire

Buffalo Wagons
Next, Larry McMurtry’s glorious Lonesome Dove.

And then, Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.

And This Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca.

J. Frank Dobie’s The Longhorns

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolph Analya

Cherry by Mary Karr

The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb