Read-alikes and related books

Books like Deadwood

If you loved Deadwood by Pete Dexter, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in SOUTH DAKOTA_FICTION and FICTION_WESTERNS.

Top related books to Deadwood

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Deadwood.

These Happy Golden Years

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Themes: SOUTH DAKOTA_FICTION

English Creek (Contemporary American Fiction)

Ivan Doig

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

On the Western Trail

Stephen L. Turner

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

Nobody’s Angel

Thomas McGuane

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (One Thousand White Women Series, 2)

Jim Fergus

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Recent Western Writing

Russell Martin

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

The Quick and the Dead Under Siege in Sarajevo

Janine di Giovanni

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

Cabin Fever

B. M. Bower

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

Dancing at the Rascal Fair: A Novel

Ivan Doig

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#10

The Girl At The Halfway House: A Story Of The Plains

Emerson Hough

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#11

The Last of the Plainsmen

Zane Grey

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#12

Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#13

Borden Chantry: A Novel (Talon and Chantry) — Louis L’Amour

Louis L'Amour

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#14

Leni Leoti Or Adventures In The Far West

Emerson Bennett

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#15

Hashknife of the Double Bar 8

W. C. Tuttle

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#16

Hopalong Cassidy’s Rustler Round Up Bar 20

Clarence E. Mulford

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#17

OREGON! (Wagon’s West)

Dana Fuller Ross

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#18

Ride the River: The Sacketts: A Novel — Louis L’Amour

Louis L'Amour

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#19

On Trail Tumbling T (Hopalong Cassidy) — Clarence E Mulford

Clarence E. Mulford

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#20

Frontier Stories (1887)

Bret Harte

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#21

The Come On

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#22

Ralph Compton, Death Along the Cimarron A Ralph Compton Novel

Ralph W. Cotton

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#23

Hundred in the Hand: A Novel (Lakota Western, 1)

Joseph M. Marshall III

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

#24

Flying U Ranch

B. M. Bower

Themes: FICTION_WESTERNS

If Deadwood by Pete Dexter is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by SOUTH DAKOTA_FICTION, FICTION_WESTERNS and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ivan Doig, Stephen L. Turner, Thomas McGuane, and others.