Planning a road trip out to West Texas? Not to be confused with books set in the Texas Panhandle, these are the top-rated West Texas books to help you either get excited or get educated about the West Texas terrain and people!

	Details	Goodreads Rating	Buy
	Horse Tradin’ by Ben K. Green - Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both.	4.51 Stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - Set in West Texas and adapted into the 2007 film which won four Academy Awards	4.13 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	Friday Night Lights set in Odessa and written by Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize winner	4.11 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	Meanest Man in West Texas by H.R. Broome - Nominated as the first Best Western novel by the Western Writers of America	4.0 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters by Eugene Cunningham	3.79 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	That Old Ace in the Hole - written by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner Annie Proulx and set near Lubbock, TX	3.73 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle by Sallie Reynolds Matthews - set in the Lambshead range	3.62 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan - Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize for History	3.25 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon
	A Ranchman’s Recollections: by Frank S. Hastings	3.0 stars on Goodreads	Buy on Amazon

 

Looking for other books on West Texas? Here’s a Goodreads list of more!

Did I miss any? Leave me a comment and let me know. 🙂  – Lindsay