Larry McMurtry

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    March 2018
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About the Author

Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) - Heart Failure at age 84.

Full Series List in Order

The Berrybender Narratives

1 - Sin Killer (May-2002)
2 - The Wandering Hill (May-2003)
3 - By Sorrow's River (Nov-2003)
4 - Folly and Glory (May-2004)

Chronological Lonesome Dove

1 - Dead Man's Walk (Sep-1995)
2 - Comanche Moon (Nov-1997)
3 - Lonesome Dove (Jun-1985)
4 - Streets of Laredo (Oct-1993)

The Desert Rose

1 - The Desert Rose (Jan-1983)
2 - Late Child (May-1995)

Duane Moore

1 - Last Picture Show (Jun-1966)
2 - Texasville (Apr-1987)
3 - Duane's Depressed (Jan-1999)
4 - When the Light Goes (Mar-2007)
5 - Rhino Ranch (Aug-2009)

Lonesome Dove

1 - Lonesome Dove (Jun-1985)
2 - Streets of Laredo (Oct-1993)
3 - Dead Man's Walk (Sep-1995)
4 - Comanche Moon (Nov-1997)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • Leaving Cheyenne

    “If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.” -- New York Times In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realitie...

  • Last Picture Show

    Duane Moore - 1

    “McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold.” -- New York Times Book Review The Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house ...

  • Moving On

    Moving On anticipates McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas. Larry McMurtry’s Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long bee...

  • In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

    This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American lite...

  • All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

    A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” (Time) tale of art and sacrifice. Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth largest city” (Doug...

  • Terms of Endearment

    In this beloved classic, the Pulitzer Prize"winning author explores the dynamic relationship between a mother and daughter in contemporary Houston.In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award"winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry crea...

  • Cadillac Jack

    From dusty flea markets in Texas to parties in Washington, DC, crawling with political hacks, Cadillac Jack is a classic American novel, timelier than ever.Larry McMurtry’s “big hearted” fiction has been lauded for “taking us places we hadn...

  • The Desert Rose

    The Desert Rose - 1

    Pulitzer Prize"winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women -- their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and th...

  • Lonesome Dove

    Chronological Lonesome Dove - 3
    Lonesome Dove - 1

    A love story, an adventure, an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove, and meet the kinds of unfor...



  • Somebody's Darling

    The personal and professional struggles of McMurtry’s lively protagonist Jill Peel, a director in 1970s Hollywood, takes on new resonance in the twenty-first century. Forty years ago, Larry McMurtry journeyed from the sprawling ranches of his early...

  • Texasville

    Duane Moore - 2

    With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and entertaining characters from one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we reco...

  • Anything for Billy

    The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud... Welcome to the wild, not adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaW. Larry McMurtry takes us on a hell-for-leather journey with Billy and his friends as t...

  • Some Can Whistle

    McMurtry's follow-up to All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers will capture a whole new audience, opening up the world of the now-millionaire Danny Deck and his strong and passionate daughter T.R.."Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" In a furious...

  • Buffalo Girls

    A strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East -- the writer's name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity...I am the Wild West, no show about it. I was one of the people who kept it wild.Larry McM...

  • Selected from Lonesome Dove

    Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade....

  • The Evening Star

    The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star.McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one ...

  • Horseman, Pass by

  • Streets of Laredo

    Chronological Lonesome Dove - 4
    Lonesome Dove - 2

    In the long-awaited sequel to Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry spins an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal, young Mexican bandit. Riding with ...

  • Late Child

    The Desert Rose - 2

    An unforgettable addition to his widely acclaimed body of work, THE LATE CHILD is Larry McMurtry's tender, funny, and poignant sequel to The Desert Rose. McMurtry delivers another rich cast of characters -- and a heartfelt, bittersweet story that unf...



  • Dead Man's Walk

    Chronological Lonesome Dove - 1
    Lonesome Dove - 3

    As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians but also the deadly whims of soldiers. On their first expeditio...

  • Comanche Moon

    Chronological Lonesome Dove - 2
    Lonesome Dove - 4

    The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize"winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel -- a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling.Texas Rangers August McCrae and Wo...

  • Duane's Depressed

    Duane Moore - 3

    Surrounded by his children, all of whom are going through tumultuous transitional times; his promiscuous wife, Karla, who is with her own demons; and his friend Sonny, who seems to be dying, Duane can't make sense of his life anymore. The stark reali...

  • Boone's Lick

    In the Old West, killers, scalpers, gunslingers, and backstabbers ruled the land without fear, confident they were the most dangerous people on the prairie. Then Mary Margaret showed up with her kids. In the backwater town of Boone's Lick, Missour...

  • Still Wild

    Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American...

  • Sin Killer

    The Berrybender Narratives - 1

    From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first leg of an epic journey through the early American frontier, introducing a pioneer family the likes of which you will never forget. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family--rich, aris...

  • The Wandering Hill

    The Berrybender Narratives - 2

    The indefatigable Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family trek on through the unexplored Wild West of 1830s America -- and suffer the harsh realities of the untamed wilderness, including sickness, brutal violence and death, the desertion of trust...

  • By Sorrow's River

    The Berrybender Narratives - 3

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry continues his four-part epic, The Berrybender Narratives, with a new novel of courage and hardship that transports readers to a time when life itself was an adventure, and death was ever close at hand.... ...

  • Folly and Glory

    The Berrybender Narratives - 4

    In this brilliant saga -- the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right -- Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with "wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia...

  • Loop Group

    Loop Group is Larry McMurtry at his contemporary best, a novel that can best be described as Thelma and Louise meets Terms of Endearment, in which two aging ladies set out on a road trip that will take them from Hollywood to Texas, with many adventur...



  • The Colonel and Little Missie

    From the most prolific author to write on all things Western, Larry McMurtry follows the rise of international celebrity "Buffalo" Bill Cody, tracker, part-time Indian scout and showman, and his most famous and celebrated star, Annie Oakley, the gift...

  • Telegraph Days

    I've come to think that in times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. The Yazee gang was riding down upon us, six abreast. We all ran outside and confirmed that fact. The sensible thing would have been to run and hide -- but d...

  • When the Light Goes

    Duane Moore - 4

    In this masterful and often surprising sequel to the acclaimed Duane's Depressed, the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Back from ...

  • Rhino Ranch

    Duane Moore - 5

    In this poignant and striking final chapter in the Duane Moore story, which began in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry takes readers on one last unforgettable journey to Thalia, Texas, a town tha...

  • Paradise

  • Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen

    In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become.Using an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first re...

  • The Berrybender Narratives

    Larry McMurtry's major four-volume series follows the Berrybender family -- aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place -- on their journey to see the American West as it begins to open up.Sin KillerIt is 1830, ...

  • Custer

    In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his...

  • The Last Kind Words Saloon

    Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With THE LAST KIND WORDS SALOON he returns again to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made...

  • Thalia

    One of Entertainment Weekly’s "Most Beautiful Books of the Year"The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia.Larry McMurtry bu...



  • Horseman, Passby

    “Every line is poetry down and dirty in the mud, right where it belongs.” -- Publishers Weekly A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the “full-blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) that would come to define McMu...

Award-Winning Books by Larry McMurtry

Comanche Moon
1998 Spur Award -- Novel of the West
Lonesome Dove
1985 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
1985 SPUR Award -- Western Novel
1986 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
Telegraph Days
2007 Audies -- Solo Narration-Female


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Larry McMurtry has published 40 books.

Larry McMurtry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Horseman, Passby, was published in March 2018.

The first book by Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne, was published in January 1962.

Yes. Larry McMurtry has 5 series.
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