San Francisco Chronicle list of The 20th Century's 100 Best Fiction of the American West

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99 Works 376,591 Books 7,166 Reviews ½ 4.0
The Chronicle Western 100 in fiction the best books of the 20th century written in or about, or by an author from, the Western United States. Based on a reader poll.
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Years:
Alle, 1999 (4)
VærkOrder LabelÅr
Vredens druer af John Steinbeck
21939
Oregon af Ken Kesey
31964
The Call of the Wild / White Fang af Jack London
41903
(Big Sleep, The) Det byder man ikke Carmen af Raymond Chandler
51939
Animal Dreams af Barbara Kingsolver
61990
Death Comes for the Archbishop af Willa Cather
71927
The Day of the Locust af Nathanael West
81939
Blodets meridian eller Aftenrøden i Vesten af Cormac McCarthy
91985
Ridderfalken af Dashiell Hammett
101930
The Ox-Bow Incident af Walter Van Tilburg Clark
111940
English Creek af Ivan Doig
121984
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues af Tom Robbins
131976
Sneen på cedertræerne : roman af David Guterson
141997
Vejene af Jack Kerouac
151957
Klub Held og Glæde af Amy Tan
161989
Lonesome Dove af Larry McMurtry
171985
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco af Frank Norris
181899
Mit navn er Aram af William Saroyan
191940
Ved floden : en fortælling om en amerikansk familie af Norman Maclean
201976
Mørkets venstre hånd af Ursula K. Le Guin
211969
Prr̆ieulv venter af Tony Hillerman
221990
Play It As It Lays af Joan Didion
231970
The Monkey Wrench Gang af Edward Abbey
241975
Vinland af Thomas Pynchon
251990
Earth Abides af George R. Stewart
261949
Crooked Little Heart af Anne Lamott
272011
The Underground Man af Ross Macdonald
281971
Her hvor jeg ringer fra : 34 noveller af Raymond Carver
291988
L.A. confidential : de faldne engles by af James Ellroy
311990
Åndernes hus af Isabel Allende
321982
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories af Gina Berriault
331996
Rumors of Peace af Ella Leffland
341979
The River Why af David James Duncan
351983
Riders of the Purple Sage af Zane Grey
361912
Shane - den tavse rytter af Jack Schaefer
371949
Stones for Ibarra af Harriet Doerr
381984
The Big Sky af Jr. A. B. Guthrie
391947
House Made of Dawn af N. Scott Momaday
411968
Bønnemarkskrigen i Milagro af John Nichols
421974
The Last Tycoon af F. Scott Fitzgerald
431941
Oil! af Upton Sinclair
441927
Mariette in Ecstasy af Ron Hansen
451991
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains af Owen Wister
461902
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water af Michael Dorris
471987
Ceremony af Leslie Marmon Silko
481977
Hawaii I - IV af James A. Michener
491959
Postbudet ringer altid to gange af James M. Cain
501934
Mrs. Bridge af Evan S. Connell
511959
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse af Vikram Seth
521986
Stones from the River af Ursula Hegi
531994
Rabbit Boss af Thomas Sanchez
551973
Bless Me, Ultima af Rudolfo Anaya
561972
Manden i den store fæstning af Philip K. Dick
571962
Laughing Boy af Oliver La Farge
581929
Corpus of Joe Bailey af Oakley M. Hall
591953
Den sorte rose af Marin Cruz Smith
601996
Fat City af Leonard Gardner
611969
Montana 1948 af Larry Watson
621993
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down af Ishmael Reed
631969
Tattoo the Wicked Cross af Floyd Salas
641967
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman af Ernest J. Gaines
651971
Lying Low af Diane Johnson
661978
Fri i 70'erne : roman af Armistead Maupin
671978
Stærke damer af Alice Adams
681984
The Field of Vision af Wright Morris
691956
Nobody's Angel af Thomas McGuane
701981
Budding Prospects af T. C. Boyle
721984
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven [20th anniversary edition] af Sherman Alexie
731993
Angel Fire af Ron Franscell
741998
Cowboys Are My Weakness af Pam Houston
751992
Elskovsmidlet af Louise Erdrich
761984
Hondo af Louis L'Amour
771953
Fools Crow af James Welch
781986
The Vineyard af Idwal Jones
791997
Fathers af Herbert Gold
801962
The Loved One af Evelyn Waugh
811948
Paso por Aqui af Eugene Manlove Rhodes
821973
The Mistress of Spices af Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
831997
Close Range af Annie Proulx
841999
Farven lilla af Alice Walker
851982
Rock Springs: Stories af Richard Ford
861987
A Distant Trumpet af Paul Horgan
871951
Tapping the Source af Kem Nunn
881984
I støvet af John Fante
891939
Fup af Jim Dodge
901983
The Friendly Persuasion af Jessamyn West
911945
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California af Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
921902
Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole af Gerald Rosen
931977
Klit af Frank Herbert
941965
Paladstyven - fortællinger af Ethan Canin
951994
Confessions of Madame Psyche af Dorothy Bryant
961986
Making History af Carolyn See
971992
The Living af Annie Dillard
981992
Efter mangen en sommer af Aldous Huxley
991939
Johnny Got His Gun af Dalton Trumbo
1001939
En god dag at dø af Thomas Berger
1999
Trout Fishing in America af Richard Brautigan
1999
Tell Me a Riddle af Tillie Olsen
1999
Angle of Repose af Wallace Stegner
1999
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