Lonesome Dove
- 945
- Pages
- about 17 h
- Reading time
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Our view
Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” is a Western on an epic scale, built on a long journey and a friendship, tense and moving by turns. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1986 and later became a television miniseries; it was the first of the four books to appear, though it comes third in the story’s order. At over nine hundred pages it is a real commitment, yet it remains the natural place to start.
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About the book
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 epic Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man's Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series.
Reading order · Lonesome Dove series
Full order & progress →- Lonesome DoveThis book
9.19.1 / 10 - Streets of Laredo
8.38.3 / 10 - Dead Man's Walk
8.28.2 / 10 - Comanche Moon
8.38.3 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 9.2 across 631 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 81% of the weight and the score stays at 9.1 — the Rankings average of 8.3 barely moves it. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 51 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 9.3 | 580 | 92% |
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