All the Pretty Horses
- 310
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- National Book Award for Fiction
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Our view
“All the Pretty Horses” is a coming-of-age western with a plain outline and nothing simple underneath it. A teenage cowboy rides into Mexico with his best friend and falls in love, but the novel is far more than a love story. Sparse punctuation and blunt dialogue strike some readers as carefully polished and others as tiresome, and some find the first half repetitive.
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About the book
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. His sixth published novel, it was his first bestseller, selling 190,000 hardcover in its first six months of publication where none of his first five novels had sold more than 5,000. It won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Reading order · The Border Trilogy
Full order & progress →- All the Pretty HorsesThis book
8.38.3 / 10 - The Crossing
8.48.4 / 10 - Cities of the Plain
8.38.3 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 412 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 74% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.3. That is how 8.3 comes out. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 26 | 6% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 16 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 370 | 90% |
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