Louis L’Amour Reading Order

13 books (1997–2022)

Start with Western Movies, the first of 13 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Western Movies 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Best of the American West 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best of the American West II 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Guns of the West 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Golden West 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Untamed West 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	Lone Star Law 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Lost Trails 2007Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Lawless West 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Ghost Towns 2010Buy 🇺🇸
11	Three Classic Westerns 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	Trailin' West 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	G-Men Detective - Fall 1950 2022Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1971–1977)

Start with North to the Rails, the first of 5 books in the Chantry series.

4 books (1951–1952)

Start with The Riders of High Rock, the first of 4 books in the Hopalong Cassidy series.

#	Title
1	The Riders of High Rock 1951Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Rustlers of West Fork 1951Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Trail to Seven Pines 1951Buy 🇺🇸
4	Trouble Shooter 1952Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1954–1998)

Start with Kilkenny, the first of 6 books in the Kilkenny series.

#	Title
1	Kilkenny 1954Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Rider of Lost Creek 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Mountain Valley War / A Man Called Trent 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	West of Dodge 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Gun for Kilkenny 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Monument Rock 1998Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1951–1992)

Start with Riders of the Dawn and read in order.

29 books (1953–2018)

Start with Hondo, the first of 29 books in the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series.

7 books (1984–2019)

Start with Frontier, the first of 7 books in the Louis L’Amour Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Frontier 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Trail of Memories 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sackett Companion 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	Education of a Wandering Man 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Martin H. M. Schreiber: Last of a Breed 2017Buy 🇺🇸
6	Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures - Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes 2018Buy 🇺🇸
7	Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2 - More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes 2019Buy 🇺🇸

69 books (1953–2019)

Start with Showdown at Yellow Butte, the first of 69 books in the Louis L’Amour Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Showdown at Yellow Butte 1953Buy 🇺🇸
2	Crossfire Trail 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	Utah Blaine 1954Buy 🇺🇸
4	Guns of the Timberlands 1955Buy 🇺🇸
5	Heller with a Gun 1955Buy 🇺🇸
6	To Tame a Land 1955Buy 🇺🇸
7	Silver Canyon 1956Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Burning Hills 1956Buy 🇺🇸
9	Last Stand at Papago Wells 1957Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sitka 1957Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Tall Stranger 1957Buy 🇺🇸
12	Radigan 1959Buy 🇺🇸
13	Flint 1960Buy 🇺🇸
14	High Lonesome 1962Buy 🇺🇸
15	Killoe 1962Buy 🇺🇸
16	Dark Canyon 1963Buy 🇺🇸
17	Hanging Woman Creek 1964Buy 🇺🇸
18	Kiowa Trail 1964Buy 🇺🇸
19	The High Graders 1965Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Key-Lock Man 1965Buy 🇺🇸
21	Kilrone 1966Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Broken Gun 1966Buy 🇺🇸
23	Matagorda 1967Buy 🇺🇸
24	Brionne 1968Buy 🇺🇸
25	Chancy 1968Buy 🇺🇸
26	Conagher 1969Buy 🇺🇸
27	Tucker 1971Buy 🇺🇸
28	Under the Sweetwater Rim 1971Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Man from Skibbereen 1973Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Quick and the Dead 1973Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Californios 1974Buy 🇺🇸
32	Where the Long Grass Blows 1976Buy 🇺🇸
33	Kiowa Trail and Killoe 1979Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Iron Marshal 1979Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Proving Trail 1979Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Cherokee Trail 1982Buy 🇺🇸
37	The ShadowRiders 1982Buy 🇺🇸
38	Son of a Wanted Man 1984Buy 🇺🇸
39	Riding for the Brand 1986Buy 🇺🇸
40	South of Deadwood 1986Buy 🇺🇸
41	Where Buzzards Fly 1986Buy 🇺🇸
42	Dead End Drift 1987Buy 🇺🇸
43	Showdown Trail 1987Buy 🇺🇸
44	Bowdrie Passes Through 1988Buy 🇺🇸
45	Four Card Draw 1988Buy 🇺🇸
46	The Turkeyfeather Riders 1988Buy 🇺🇸
47	Too Tough to Brand 1989Buy 🇺🇸
48	The Louis L'Amour Companion(With: Robert Weinberg) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Marshal of Sentinel 1995Buy 🇺🇸
50	Strawhouse Trail 1997Buy 🇺🇸
51	Love and the Cactus Kid 1999Buy 🇺🇸
52	Survival 1999Buy 🇺🇸
53	Lit a Shuck for Texas 2003Buy 🇺🇸
54	The First Fast Draw 2003Buy 🇺🇸
55	The Sixth Shotgun 2003Buy 🇺🇸
56	Big Medicine 2008Buy 🇺🇸
57	His Brother's Debt 2008Buy 🇺🇸
58	Job for a Ranger 2008Buy 🇺🇸
59	Medicine Ground 2008Buy 🇺🇸
60	No Man's Man 2008Buy 🇺🇸
61	That Triggernometry Tenderfoot 2008Buy 🇺🇸
62	Dawn Riders 2010Buy 🇺🇸
63	Unguarded Moment 2012Buy 🇺🇸
64	The Black Rock Coffin Makers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
65	A Man Called Trent 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Riders of the Tumbling K 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Showdown 2017Buy 🇺🇸
68	Three Bullets for the Cactus Kid 2018Buy 🇺🇸
69	Bannon 2019Buy 🇺🇸

44 books (1939–2016)

Start with Smoke from This Altar, the first of 44 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Smoke from This Altar 1939Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Strong Shall Live 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Buckskin Run 1981Buy 🇺🇸
4	Law of the Desert Born 1983Buy 🇺🇸
5	Bowdrie's Law 1984Buy 🇺🇸
6	Dutchman's Flat 1986Buy 🇺🇸
7	Man Riding West 1986Buy 🇺🇸
8	Night Over the Solomons 1986Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Rider of the Ruby Hills 1986Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Trail to Crazy Man 1986Buy 🇺🇸
11	West from Singapore 1987Buy 🇺🇸
12	Lonigan 1988Buy 🇺🇸
13	Long Ride Home 1989Buy 🇺🇸
14	Grub Line Rider 1990Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Outlaws of Mesquite 1990Buy 🇺🇸
16	West of the Tularosa 1992Buy 🇺🇸
17	Black Rock: A Western Trio 1994Buy 🇺🇸
18	Valley of the Sun 1995Buy 🇺🇸
19	West of Dodge Collection 1996Buy 🇺🇸
20	Mistakes Can Kill You 1997Buy 🇺🇸
21	Monument Rock 1998Buy 🇺🇸
22	Beyond the Great Snow Mountains 1999Buy 🇺🇸
23	May There Be a Road 2001Buy 🇺🇸
24	Louis L'Amour Trail Mix: Volume Two 2002Buy 🇺🇸
25	With These Hands 2002Buy 🇺🇸
26	From the Listening Hills 2003Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 1 2003Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 2 2004Buy 🇺🇸
29	Home in the Valley 2005Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 3 2005Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 4 2006Buy 🇺🇸
32	Big Country, Volume 1 2007Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour Volume 5 2007Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6 2008Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 7 2009Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Frontier Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸
37	Big Country, Vol. 3 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Man from Battle Flat 2010Buy 🇺🇸
39	Glory Riders 2011Buy 🇺🇸
40	The Strong Land 2012Buy 🇺🇸
41	Desert Death-Song 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	We Shaped the Land with Our Guns 2014Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Chick Bowdrie Short Stories Bundle 2015Buy 🇺🇸
44	Golden Gunmen 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1975–1981)

Start with Rivers West and read in order.

#	Title
1	Rivers West 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Man from the Broken Hills 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	Milo Talon 1981Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2000–2006)

Start with Stories of the Golden West: Book 1(By: Jon Tuska), the first of 7 books in the The Golden West series.

#	Title
1	Stories of the Golden West: Book 1(By: Jon Tuska) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stories of the Golden West, Book 2(By: Jon Tuska) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stories of the Golden West, Book 3(By: Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska,Christopher Lane) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stories of the Golden West, Book 4(By: Jon Tuska) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Stories of the Golden West, Book 5(By: Grover Gardner,Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stories of the Golden West, Book 6(By: Zane Grey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stories of the Golden West, Book 7(With: Zane Grey,Max Brand,Jon Tuska) 2006Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1960–1997)

Start with The Daybreakers, the first of 19 books in the The Sacketts series.

#	Title
1	The Daybreakers 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sackett 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lando 1962Buy 🇺🇸
4	Mojave Crossing 1964Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Sackett Brand 1965Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mustang Man 1966Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Sky-Liners 1967Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Lonely Men 1969Buy 🇺🇸
9	Galloway 1970Buy 🇺🇸
10	Ride the Dark Trail 1972Buy 🇺🇸
11	Treasure Mountain 1972Buy 🇺🇸
12	War Party 1973Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sackett's Land 1974Buy 🇺🇸
14	To the Far Blue Mountains 1976Buy 🇺🇸
15	Lonely on the Mountain 1980Buy 🇺🇸
16	Ride the River 1983Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Warrior's Path 1984Buy 🇺🇸
18	Jubal Sackett 1985Buy 🇺🇸
19	End of the Drive 1997Buy 🇺🇸