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Doc
"Doc" is a historical fiction novel written by Mary Doria Russell and published in 2011. The book provides a biographical depiction of the American Old West figure Doc Holliday, specifically focusing on his life as a dentist and gambler in Dodge City, Kansas, during the late 1870s. It explores his c...
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The top alternative to Doc in 2026 is My Ántonia with a score of 9.2/10, followed by Death Comes for the Archbishop (9.1) and Close Range: Wyoming Stories (8.8).
My Ántonia
"My Antonia" is a 1918 novel by American author Willa Cather, presented as the fictional memoir of a man named Jim Burde...
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a historical western novel by Willa Cather. It portrays the experiences of Father Seba...
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 short story collection by Annie Proulx, set primarily in rural Wyoming. It won th...
Giants in the Earth
Giants in the Earth is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag, first published in Norwegian in 1924 as...
Plainsong
Published in 1999, Plainsong is a literary novel by American author Kent Haruf that explores the intersecting lives of r...
Andersonville
Andersonville is a historical novel by MacKinlay Kantor published in 1955, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1...
Honey in the Horn
"Honey in the Horn" is a debut novel by Harold L. Davis, published in 1935 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction th...
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel by Wallace Stegner that explores the American immigran...
Montana 1948
Montana 1948 is a 1993 novella by American author Larry Watson, set in the fictional town of Bentrock, Montana. The stor...
Track of the Cat
Track of the Cat is a 1949 Western novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, set on an isolated ranch in the Nevada mountains d...
Eventide
Eventide is a literary novel by Kent Haruf published in 2004, set in the fictional farming community of Holt, Colorado....
Peder Victorious
Peder Victorious is a 1929 novel written by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. As the second book in a trilog...
Creek Mary's Blood
Creek Mary's Blood is a historical epic novel published in 1980 by American author Dee Brown. The narrative spans multip...
These Thousand Hills
"These Thousand Hills" is a 1956 novel by A.B. Guthrie Jr., the third installment in his sequence of Western novels foll...
Welcome to Hard Times
E.L. Doctorow's 1960 debut novel, a revisionist dark western set in the Dakota Territory that subverts frontier mytholog...
Epitaph
"Epitaph" is a 2015 historical novel by American author Mary Doria Russell. It is a sequel to her 2011 novel "Doc" and c...
I, Tom Horn
"I, Tom Horn" is a Western novel written by Will Henry (a pen name for Henry Wilson Allen) and published in 1975. Writte...
Desperadoes
"Desperadoes" is a historical fiction novel written by Ron Hansen and published in 1979. The book provides a fictionaliz...
Long Remember
"Long Remember" is a historical novel written by MacKinlay Kantor and published in 1934. The narrative provides a detail...
Journey of the Dead
Journey of the Dead is a historical western novel written by Loren D. Estleman and published in 1998. The narrative reim...
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