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Western Romance Novels and Historical Fiction for Your Inner Cowboy

by PRH Editors

Yeehaw! Ever since Beyoncé released her new album Cowboy Carter, we’ve been having visions of cowboy boots, spurs, and rodeos. If you’re anything like us, you’re looking for new ways to add even more Country Western media into your life. Well, lucky for you, partner, we’ve compiled this list of Western romance and historical fiction novels. Saddle up and get ready for these captivating reads!

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    Swift and Saddled

    by Lyla Sage

    She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway. From the author of the BookTok sensation Done and Dusted comes the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance featuring opposites attract and forced proximity.
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    How Much of These Hills Is Gold

    by C Pam Zhang

    An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape — trying not just to survive but to find a home.
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    Lucky Red

    by Claudia Cravens

    A thrilling, raucous, and gloriously queer debut about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck in the American West — and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way, now in paperback.
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    Bound for Glory

    by Tess LeSue

    An unwilling legend and the woman who made him into one finally meet in a sizzling encounter.
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    God’s Country

    by Percival Everett

    The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: Gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It’s 1871, and he’s lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: A Black man named Bubba. This comic and fierce novel spoofs the classic Western format with the dark, incisive humor we’ve come to expect from its acclaimed author.
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    The Tender Texan

    by Jodi Thomas

    Anna Meyer offers one hundred dollars to the Texas cattleman who can help her forge a frontier homestead. Chance Wyatt agrees to settle down and build a home with a lovely stranger. They vowed to live together for only a year, but as the challenges of the savage land bring them closer together, neither can resist the aching desire that inflames their hearts — and touches their souls.
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    Unbreak Me

    by Michelle Hazen

    Andra Lawler lives isolated at her family’s horse ranch, imprisoned by the memories of an assault in college. When she needs help training her goals, she hires a Haitian-Creole cowboy from New Orleans with a laugh as big as the Montana sky, but who is running from his own past. What could two troubled souls from different walks of life have in common? Maybe everything.
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    Lone Women

    by Victor LaValle

    Blue skies, empty land — and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.
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    Kit McBride Gets a Wife

    by Amy Barry

    The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride.
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    Malas

    by Marcela Fuentes

    A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations — “Fuentes has achieved something rare and indelible with this story of complex women” (Erika L. Sánchez).
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    The Ballad of Hattie Taylor

    by Susan Andersen

    A daring young woman pushes back against societal constraints in a feminist, coming-of-age Western romance in the New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen.
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    Woman of Light

    by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

    A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina.
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    Holly Jolly Cowboy

    by Jessica Clare

    Local waitress Holly Dawson needs a better paying job to cover her sister’s college tuition. So, when she’s offered a job at the Flat C Ranch to clean and cook for the cowboys that work there, it seems like a dream come true … except for one thing. Her nemesis, the incredibly handsome (and annoyingly arrogant) Adam Calhoun works there. When the rest of the ranch hands go out of town for the holidays, Holly and Adam will be forced to work closely together. No sweat. Holly can deal with Adam. And if she doesn’t kill him first, she just might fall in love.
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    Vampires of El Norte

    by Isabel Cañas

    Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.
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    Spun Out

    by Lorelei James

    New York Times bestselling author Lorelei James returns for another wild ride in Wyoming with a new Blacktop Cowboys novel.
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