Recs if you like Butcher's Crossing...
Bloody West: A Collection of Westerns Horrors
Everything under the high sun, from monsters and mayhem to hauntings and sorrow set across the hot, dry plains of the West. This collection spans from pure horror to the horror-adjacent found in both new printings and older classics.
Bucket-List Classics
All the Classics I want to read before ...ya know.
Broski nation book club
Brittany Broski thank you for these recommendations, I will get to them when I can my glorious leader. BROSKI REPORT ACTIVATE!
NYRB
The Wild West
Classic Western novels set in the Frontier. If you liked Red Dead Redemption, read these books.
Includes fiction and non-fiction
Westerns
Cowboys, horses, and native Americans
The American Frontier๐ด
Stories that take place in the American Frontier
books that neigh!
Horse girls, unite! These books feature horses, sort of.
From one place to Another place
Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel
TikTok to Faulkner
I saw a Josh Johnson tiktok about getting through the American Literary tradition and wanted to make this list to track the 14 recommended readings in order.
Link to the order to read in: https://compendiumshow.substack.com/p/a-readers-guide-from-tiktok-to-faulkner
A Stroll through the NYRB Classics
NYRB Classics to Tackle
complex relationships with time & progress
books & protagonists that have layered experiences with, or perspectives on, the idea of technological or societal โprogressโ as a linear, inherent, and inevitable good (or evil), or with the overall passage of time and generational change causing a fear or feeling of impending obsolescence and distance from the natural world
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